Title: The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste
Author: Minor, Vernon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 206
Dimensions: 10.26h x 7.18w x 0.68d
Product Weight: 1.54 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780521843416

In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, and the visual arts. This book examines the cultural upheaval that accompanied attacks on the baroque predilection for ornament, extended visual metaphors, grandiloquence, and mystical rapture. Rome's Academy of the Arcadians emerged as a potent social and cultural force in the final decade of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century provided a setting for arguments on artistic taste and reforms in literature and religion. This book describes the waning days of the baroque and ends with an analysis of the Parrhasian Grove.

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