Beginning in the 1580s and ending as late as 1750 in some Northern European regions, the Baroque artistic era began as an artistic recoil to the stylizations of Mannerist art and as a means of implementation of the demands of the Counter-Reformation Church that sought to restore…
"Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly …
Review text: "[...] gibt es viel lernen. Über das Theater, das Experimentieren und den Begriff des Wissens."Dirk Pilz in: Theater der Zeit 05/2007.
"Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term Baroque, the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French cha…
Incorporating numerous aids for teachers and students, this textbook on European music between 1600 and 1750 discusses the principal musical traditions of the period.
