Four stages of Renaissance style ; transformations in art and literature, 1400-1700.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sypher, Wylie.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1955.
Edition:[First edition].
Series:A Doubleday Anchor original ; A45
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.