TY - BOOK AU - Toman,Rolf TI - Baroque: architecture, sculpture, and painting SN - 9783833110412 U1 - 709.032 21 PY - 2010/// CY - [Köln] PB - Tandem Verlag gmbH KW - Baroque KW - Architecture, Baroque KW - Arts, Baroque KW - Painting, Baroque KW - Sculpture, Baroque N1 - Includes index; Translated from German; Introduction / Barbara Borngässer, Rolf Toman -- Architecture and city in Italy from th early baroque to the early neo-classical period / Wolfgang Jung -- Baroque city planning / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Baroque architecture in Spain and Portugal ; Baroque architecture in Latin America ; Baroque architecture in France / Barbara Gorngässer -- Baroque landscape architecture / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Baroque architecture in England ; Baroque architecture in the Netherlands ; Baroque architecture in Scandinavia / Barbara Borngässer -- Baroque architecture in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Eastern Europe / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Baroque sculpture in Italy, France, and Central Europe / Uwe Geese -- Baroque sculpture in Spain / José Ignacio Hernández Redondo -- Painting in Italy, Spain, and France in the seventeenth century / Karin Hellwig -- Emblems / Ehrenfried Kluckert -- Painting in the Netherlands, Germany, and England in the seventeenth century / Kira van Lil. Architecture and City in Italy from the early Baroque to the early neo-classical period, baroque city planning, baroque architecture in spain and portugal, baroque architecture in latin america, baroque architecture in france, baroque landscape architecture, baroque architecture in england, baroque architecture in the netherlands, baroque architecture in scandinavia, baroque architecture in germany, switzerland, austria, and eastern europe, baroque sculpture in italy, france, and central europe, baroque sculpture in spain, painting in italy, spain, and france in the seventeenth century, emblems, painting in the netherlands, germany, england in the seventeenth century N2 - During the baroque period, architecture and the other fine arts were the instruments of a staging of "world theatre" on a grand scale. The baroque art of the popes in Rome, the displays of power and opulence in the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and Dutch painting-- all reflect different aspects of the underlying tension between pleasure in life and fear of death that was such a prominent feature of the baroque world view. This volume portrays the entire span of the fine arts of the baroque era, from rich splendor to religious asceticism ER -