Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.
by Ara, Jesús Antonio, Levy, Kurt L., Hughes, John Gethin
In this provocative revisionist work, Evonne Levy brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the "propagandistic" art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. The first extensive analysis of the aims, mechanisms, …
The contributors to this volume address such topics as the early history of the orchestra, iconography, pitch, and continuo practice, as well as questions relating specifically to the performance of baroque music. Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recog…
"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…
