BAROCO & ROCOCO

Undergraduate lecture on Baroque and Rococo art and architecture in Europe and the New World.

Nexus Network Journal, 2009

With the new architecture still in constant evolution, and its forms fragmented, bent, twisted and folded out of any immediately recognizable shape, a comparison with older, more canonical architecture also helps us to see the new, and to understand what we are seeing.

Interstices, 2017

The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980 is aimed at exploring two projects, "the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of architectural historiography." In doing so, the book "defines a role for the baroque in the history of architectural historiography and in the history of modern architectural culture." The historical understanding of baroque as a phenomenon of the sixteenth and seventeenth century is acknowledged in the book, but the central focus is on how the baroque has been created in our more recent past. Or, more accurately, its focus is to unpack how particular politics of our recent past have shaped how the baroque is understood from the 1880s to the 1980s. The book draws our attention to which stories of our recent past have flourished, and which have fallen by the wayside. Thus the book asks the reader to consider how the baroque has been shaped by privileging a particular understanding, author, text, and national location.

Nexus Network Journal, 2009

With the new architecture still in constant evolution, and its forms fragmented, bent, twisted and folded out of any immediately recognizable shape, a comparison with older, more canonical architecture also helps us to see the new, and to understand what we are seeing.

The paper analysis the evolution of Baroque art and its development. The artistic style popularized as Baroque had different stylistic variations and sub-phases of development and diffusion. The movement/ style, according to many, began in Rome, but thrived in its various forms in different parts of Europe (Spanish Baroque, Northern Baroque, French Baroque etc.) at different time periods between the late 16th to early 18th centuries CE (1580-1720). The style has often been divided into 3 phases. (It is important to remember that such chronological boundaries are usually arbitrary but nevertheless useful in examining the evolution in Western art).

The Journal of Art Historiography, 2016

Among the theoretical patterns that shaped art history between the nineteenth and twentieth century, formalism has undoubtedly a central place, with the turning point of Heinrich Wölfflin’s publication of the Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe (Principles of Art History) in 1915, which offered practical tools to interpret works of art on the basis of the historical forms of sight.1 One of the crucial contributions of early twentieth-century German formalist scholars was the creation of the conditions to reconcile modernity with the Baroque. Directing her attention to the architectural historiography of the Baroque from 1845 to 1945, Evonne Levy points out that ‘political circumstances pressed those who studied the history of art to compare that epoch [i.e. the seventeenth century] to their own’.2 The temporal frame defines a century that had, at its beginning, Jacob Burckhardt’s entry ‘Jesuitenstil’ for the ninth edition of the Conversations-Lexikon3 (chapter one) and, at its end, th...

Eğitim bilimine giriş, 2017