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Summary: Baroque Bliss
Review: If you were to travel through Europe and wanted to come home with the best photographs of Baroque art, you would hope it would be half as good as this book. Almost 500 pages are filled with photographs which are almost all in colour and always remarkably clear. The views are expertly chosen for the best angle with vivid details. If you are interested in Baroque art, you will love this book, it has everything. As expected from the title, it covers Baroque painting of the seventeenth century. Sculpture and architecture are explored in the late Baroque and Rococo movements. The appendix includes an excellent glossary of art and architecture terms, complete with sketches, when necessary. Another wonderful feature: if you are reading about art or architecture from another book, this one is likely to have all the photographs the other is missing. What good is a mention of an art work without seeing it in front of you? This will solve that frustration. This coffee table volume is unsurpassed in picture books on Baroque Art.
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Summary: Baroque Bliss
Review: If you were to travel through Europe and wanted to come home with the best photographs of Baroque art, you would hope it would be half as good as this book. Almost 500 pages are filled with photographs which are almost all in colour and always remarkably clear. The views are expertly chosen for the best angle with vivid details. If you are interested in Baroque art, you will love this book, it has everything. As expected from the title, it covers Baroque painting of the seventeenth century. Sculpture and architecture are explored in the late Baroque and Rococo movements. The appendix includes an excellent glossary of art and architecture terms, complete with sketches, when necessary. Another wonderful feature: if you are reading about art or architecture from another book, this one is likely to have all the photographs the other is missing. What good is a mention of an art work without seeing it in front of you? This will solve that frustration. This coffee table volume is unsurpassed in picture books on Baroque Art.
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Summary: Kudos for Baroque
Review: The cover alone will stop you in your tracks, a magnificent photograph of the Hofburg Library in Vienna. Open the cover and you will find page after page of amazingly detailed color photos of architecture, sculpture, and paintings. And to top it off, the text is generally interesting without any mindnumbing pedantic nose-in-the-air commentary. I have been an architect for 25 years and have never stopped searching for a reasonably priced book of Baroque with high quality pictures and text. This is it.
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Summary: Jaw-dropping visuals!
Review: What do you expect from Konneman? If they keep churning out quality books like BAROQUE at such criminally low price they will exterminate all competitions. I had to miss half-day of work just to go through half the book.
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