Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. BAROQUE VISUAL RHETORIC 1
6. 1. Introduction 3
7. 2. Critical Perspectives 5
8. 3. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Inexpressibility 25
9. 4. Death and Dying in St Peter’s Basilica: Part 1 32
10. 5. Death and Dying in St Peter’s Basilica: Part 2 50
11. 6. Eighteenth-Century Baroque: The Style That Did Not (Quite) Die 61
12. 7. Narrative and Symbol in the Apostles Series, San Giovanni in Laterano 74
13. 8. Fear and Trembling in Francesco Borromini’s Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza 92
14. 9. Baroque Conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio 110
15. 10. Bernini and the Metaphor of the Fiery Angel 134
16. 11. Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales 139
17. 12. The Corsini Chapel: Its Sense of Place and Time 177
18. Notes 208
19. Bibliography 243
20. Index 256