Erik S. Roraback, The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities
“Baroque” began its conceptual life as a negative descriptor. Most accounts derive the term from the Portuguese term for a misshapen pearl, and the term began to be used in the neoclassical period to refer to what were then seen as the ungainly excesses of European artistic production of the sevent...
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E-rea
2018
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| Zusammenfassung: | “Baroque” began its conceptual life as a negative descriptor. Most accounts derive the term from the Portuguese term for a misshapen pearl, and the term began to be used in the neoclassical period to refer to what were then seen as the ungainly excesses of European artistic production of the seventeenth century. The Baroque as a period of art history worthy of its own study and appreciation was largely rescued by Heinrich Wölfflin in the mid-nineteenth century, before being fully revived by ... |
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