Tag: Baroque

Free Download Lilian H. Zirpolo, "Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture"
English | 2018 | pages: 693 | ISBN: 1538111284 | PDF | 152,7 mb
The baroque period deals with the art created roughly between the end of the 16th and the early years of the 18th centuries. The masters of the era include Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Diego Velazquez, and Nicolas Poussin. The Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture, Second Edition covers the most salient works of baroque artists, the most common themes depicted, historical events and key figures responsible for shaping the artistic vocabulary of the era, and definitions of terms pertaining to the topic at hand.

Free Download Quicksilver: Volume One of the Baroque Cycle By Neal Stephenson
2003 | 944 Pages | ISBN: 0641650698 | EPUB | 2 MB
Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author’s critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations.It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe – London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds – risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox … and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life – a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV – Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.And it’s just the beginning …

Free Download Music In The Baroque Era: From Monteverdi To Bach by Manfred F. Bukofzer
English | November 4, 2008 | ISBN: 1443726192, 1406739332 | True EPUB | 763 pages | 11.2 MB
This vintage book contains a comprehensive treatise of Baroque music.

Free Download Helen Hills, "The matter of miracles: Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity "
English | ISBN: 0719084741 | 2016 | 656 pages | PDF | 24 MB
This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.

Free Download Music in the Baroque World: History, Culture, and Performance by Susan Lewis Hammond
English | September 11, 2015 | ISBN: 0415842751, 041584276X | True EPUB | 376 pages | 129 MB
Music in the Baroque World: History, Culture, Performance offers an interdisciplinary study of the music of Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries. It answers calls for an approach that balances culture, history, and musical analysis, with an emphasis on performance considerations such as notation, instruments, and performance techniques. It situates musical events in their intellectual, social, religious, and political contexts and enables in-depth discussion and critical analysis. The companion web site provide links to scores and audio/visual performances, making this a complete course for the study of Baroque music.

Free Download Gilles Paquet, "The New Geo-Governance: A Baroque Approach"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0776605941 | EPUB | pages: 300 | 1.3 mb
Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has led to the emergence of powerful newly networked business organizations, new subsidiary-focused governments, and increasingly virtual, elective, and malleable communities. This in turn has led to the crystallization of distributed governance regimes, based on a wider variety of more fluid and always evolving groups of stakeholders.