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Zusatztext '... a monument and a legacy to Baroque studies that works through an impressive body of material to reach broad and timely conclusions.' Tom Conley! Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures! Harvard University Informationen zum Autor Christopher Braider is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Refiguring the Real: Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 (1993) and Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama (2002). Klappentext Explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. Zusammenfassung Explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: Baroque self-invention and historical truth in art; The vindication of Susanna: femininity and truth in Baroque science and art; The fountain of Narcissus: the ontology of St Paul in Caravaggio and Rembrandt; Hercules at the crossroads: image and soliloquy in Annibale Carracci; Imaginary selves: the trial of identity in Descartes! Pascal and Cyrano; Bibliography; Index.
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Contents: Introduction: Baroque self-invention and historical truth in art; The vindication of Susanna: femininity and truth in Baroque science and art; The fountain of Narcissus: the ontology of St Paul in Caravaggio and Rembrandt; Hercules at the crossroads: image and soliloquy in Annibale Carracci; Imaginary selves: the trial of identity in Descartes, Pascal and Cyrano; Bibliography; Index.
