Relics, Dreams, Voyages - World Baroque

Relics, dreams, voyages is a closely focused sequence of studies of worldwide connections in all the arts in the baroque period. Drawing on original research in libraries, collections, and archives in five countries, and in as many languages, this book draws many astonishing, unfamiliar and beautiful texts, things and events, into a cartography of the secret and strange patterns of baroque cultures worldwide. The visual arts are examined across a wide temporal and geographical span, and many subversive iconographies are decoded: at the French and English courts, in remote Scotland, in Nagasaki, in Valladolid. This books offers a new, extraordinary cultural geography of the baroque world, opening doors to many rich and strange cultural artefacts, from 'China to Peru.'

About the author

Peter Davidson is Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davidson
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 20.01.2026
• EAN: 9781526195548
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9554-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, History of Art, baroque, Art & design styles: Baroque, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / Movements / Baroque & Rococo