Baroque Science

Baroque Science
Author: Ofer Gal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022621298X


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Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.


Baroque Science
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Ofer Gal
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and co
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Pages: 308
Authors: Ofer Gal
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Language: en
Pages: 856
Authors: John D. Lyons
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Euro
Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Andrea Bacchi
Categories: Portrait sculpture, Baroque
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Evonne Levy
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-14 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit