Renacimiento y Barroco I

Synopsis of Renacimiento y Barroco I

This book is a fundamental contribution by Giulio Carlo Argan to the field of contemporary historiography. Originally published within his great 'Storia dell'arte italiana', it has become an indispensable reference document for those scholars who wish to delve into the world of the Renaissance and Baroque with an integral concept of art history. The author delves into both the social relationships and conditionings of artistic practice and the formal and aesthetic principles that inspire it. With a penetrating vision, Argan discovers the reasons behind the works of architecture, sculpture and painting of these two culminating periods in the historical development of Western art, analyzing and revealing the logic of their definition and plastic evolution. From Giotto to Leonardo and from Michelangelo to Tiepolo, Giulio Carlo Argan breaks down the way of doing of all those creators who contributed to the arts of the Renaissance and Baroque being considered as one of the greatest manifestations of the human spirit, through the vision and direct analysis of the works, whose compilation in excellent engravings, plans, plants, schemes, etc., constitutes a remarkable graphic corpus of the styles studied.