Baroque art : the Jesuit contribution / edited by Rudolf Wittkower & Irma B. Jaffe
1972, First Edition. New York : Fordham University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Price-clipped. Item #481068
ISBN: 0823209008
Physical description; xvi, 139 p., 64 plates ; 30 cm. Notes; Outgrowth of a symposium held at Fordham University, April 25-26, 1969. Contents; Problems of the theme / Rudolf Wittkower -- The Gesù in the light of contemporary church design / James S. Ackerman -- Ut picturae sermones: the first painted decorations of the Gesù / Howard Hibbard -- The role of patrons: Baroque style changes / Francis Haskell -- Hermetism and mystical architecture in the Society of Jesus / René Taylor -- Baroque theater and the Jesuits / Per Bjurström -- The German College in Rome: a center for Baroque music / Thomas Culley, S.J. Subjects; Art, Baroque Jesuit influences. Art, Renaissance Italy. Chiesa del Gesù (Rome).
Price: €30.00