Baroque visual rhetoric /Vernon Hyde Minor.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages).
- Toronto Italian Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Introduction; 2. Critical Perspectives; 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility; 4. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 1; 5. Death and Dying in St Peter's Basilica: Part 2; 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die; 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano; 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza; 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio; 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery Angel; 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales; 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes the Baroque's combination of style and message and the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.