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December 20, 2024

Sforza Pallavicino A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome (Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 83)

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Free Download Sforza Pallavicino: A Jesuit Life in Baroque Rome (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 83) by Maarten Delbeke
English | September 22, 2022 | ISBN: 9004462023 | 331 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
As a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent tensions and contradictions of his era: a man of the church deeply involved in the new science, a nobleman and courtier drawn to ascetism and theology, a controversial polemicist involved in poetry and the arts. This volume collects essays by specialists in the fields and disciplines that cover Pallavicino’s activities as a scholar, author and Jesuit, and situate him within the Roman cultural, political and social elite of his times. Through the figure of Pallavicino, an image of baroque Rome emerges that challenges historical periodisations and disciplinary boundaries.

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November 30, 2024

A Dutch Republican Baroque Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event

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Free Download Frans-Willem Korsten, "A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event "
English | ISBN: 9462982120 | 2017 | 248 pages | PDF | 1416 KB
In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment. The Dutch version of the Baroque is characterised by a fascination with this world regarded as one possibility out of a plurality of potential worlds. It is this fascination that explains the coincidence in the Dutch Republic, strange at first sight, of Baroque exuberance, irregularity, paradox, and vertigo with scientific rigor, regularity, mathematical logic, and rational distance. In giving a new historical perspective on the Baroque as a specifically Dutch republican one, this study also offers a new and systematic approach towards the interactions among the notions of theatricality, dramatisation, moment, and event: concepts that are currently at the centre of philosophical and political debates but the modern articulation of which can best be considered in the explorations of history and world in the Dutch Republic.

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September 15, 2024

Baroque Counterpoint

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Free Download Baroque Counterpoint by Christoph Neidhofer, Peter Schubert
English | December 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1438493258 | MOBI | 70 Mb
This book teaches Baroque compositional techniques through writing and improvisation exercises and analysis of repertoire examples. It provides readers with a historical outlook by focusing largely on principles taught in treatises from the period 1680-1780. This expanded edition includes new sections with keyboard exercises that provide training in Partimento performance as it was practiced at the time, helping students master Baroque style from the inside. While the focus of the book is on fugue, it also treats chorale preludes, stylized dances, inventions, and trio sonatas. The volume is divided into two parts-basic and advanced- which could be taught in a two-semester sequence. There are various options to introduce material from Part II into Part I for a one-semester course.

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April 25, 2024

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture (2024)

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Free Download Lilian H. Zirpolo, "Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture"
English | 2018 | pages: 693 | ISBN: 1538111284 | PDF | 152,7 mb
The baroque period deals with the art created roughly between the end of the 16th and the early years of the 18th centuries. The masters of the era include Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Diego Velazquez, and Nicolas Poussin. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture, Second Edition covers the most salient works of baroque artists, the most common themes depicted, historical events and key figures responsible for shaping the artistic vocabulary of the era, and definitions of terms pertaining to the topic at hand.

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January 30, 2024

Quicksilver Volume One of the Baroque Cycle

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Free Download Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle By Neal Stephenson
2003 | 944 Pages | ISBN: 0641650698 | EPUB | 2 MB
Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author’s critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe – London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds – risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox … and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life – a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV – Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.And it’s just the beginning …

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