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Penn State University Press, 2008. Softcover. As new.. This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as process, which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the threshold, and the development from humanist perfection to Baroque perfectibility. Such an evolution in literature and the arts is situated in relation to the age of explorations (Columbus), scientific inventions (the telescope), and the fundamental shift from the enclosed Ptolemic system to the open universe of the Copernican revolution. At the Baroque point of origin,…
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- Title The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts
- Author Giancarlo Maiorino
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 222
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penn State University Press
- Date 1990-02-15
- ISBN 9780271027906 / 0271027908
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.51 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.30 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 709
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