Four stages of Renaissance style; transformations in art and literature, 1400-1700
312 pages illustrations 18 cm.
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The analogy of forms in art
Renaissance
I. The Gothic system : problems
II. Renaissance composition
III. Interferences and transformations
Mannerism
I. The missing term
II. Disturbed balance
III. Techniques of accommodation
IV. The dramatic artifice
V. The revolving view
VI. Unresolved tensions
VII. Shifting planes of reality
Baroque
I. Reintegration
II. Resolution in the flesh
III. Resolution in energy
IV. Resolution in space
V. Baroque and academic
VI. The image in space
VII. Resolution by height
VIII. From baroque to Kitsch
IX. Resolution by light
Late-baroque
I. The "neoclassical" tradition
II. The system of reversal and balance
III. Psychological symmetry
IV. The mechanics of expression
V. The late-baroque purification : Racine