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Zusatztext 'Bailey's book expands upon our understanding of rococo art and architecture in two significant ways. It proposes that there was a spiritual component to the rococo from its inception! detectable even in its secular applications. It also reveals how spirituality enabled rococo design to become a global phenomenon! ranging beyond France to Germany! Brazil! and Argentina. This is a stimulating! provocative study that reveals how much the rococo mattered to eighteenth-century societies.' Michael Yonan! University of Missouri! Columbia! USA '[This book is] wide-ranging and formidably well-researched ... Bailey maps this process with breadth! depth and precision! and with plentiful! and telling illustrations. This is a brilliant! potentially game-changing book.' Art and Christianity Informationen zum Autor Gauvin Alexander Bailey is Professor and Alfred and Isabel Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen's University! Kingston! Canada. Klappentext Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritual dimension of Rococo decor! particularly in France! Central Europe! Portugal! Brazil! and Spanish South America! this study investigates the socio-religious motives for the importation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and its commonalities with Enlightenment values. Zusammenfassung Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritual dimension of Rococo decor, particularly in France, Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and Spanish South America, this study investigates the socio-religious motives for the importation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and its commonalities with Enlightenment values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; 'The dream of happiness': the literature of the spiritual Rococo and the Christianity of reason; 'As bizarre a style as ever occurred': Rococo in France; 'Bright shining as the stars': spiritual Rococo in Central Europe; 'Irregular ornament in the finest French taste': spiritual Rococo in Portugal and Brazil; 'O happy vision!': spiritual Rococo in Spain and Spanish South America; Epilogue: 'Superfluous stucco and laughable decoration': Rococo! religion! and the global enlightenment; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. ...
