Barroco

The exciting history of art, culture and politics in the 17th and 18th centuries: from political absolutism, the Counter-Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, the Spanish Golden Age and the court of the Sun King to the English Revolution and the fall of the Habsburgs. The period of maximum expression and flowering of the arts, letters and sciences throughout Europe. With a Brief History of the Baroque, in an agile, entertaining and rigorous style, you will get to know the second and last great stage of the immense cultural development that occurred in the Modern Age. The time when the foundations of the current scientific progress of humanity were laid. From the great political, economic and artistic events, such as the triumph of absolutism, the Thirty Years' War, the adoption of mercantilism, the extraordinary brilliance of the fine arts in the shadow of the Vatican, passing through the great era of cultural flourishing that took place in Spain during the Golden Age, this book will guide you through one of the most interesting stages in the history of art, the Baroque style, which faithful follower of the guidelines of the Counter-Reformation, will put all the arts at the service of the powers religious and political, as well as that of the bourgeoisie in the Protestant countries of central and northern Europe. Great artists like Bernini, Borromini, Guarino Guarini or Caravaggio in Italy; Rubens and Van Dyck in Flanders, Rembrandt, Franz Hals and the landscapers in Holland, Velázquez, Ribera, Zurbarán and Murillo in Spain. Together with great architects such as the Churrigueras and the carvers of the polychrome imagery, they exhibit his work throughout the pages of this book, without forgetting Spanish-American colonial art and the Rococo style at the end of the Baroque. An essential book to acquire complete information about this important era of art and history.