Abstract: Points of reference - the admiral's gaze the discovery of the "Cemies" Peter Martyr's ghosts from the specters to the demon Cortes idols war love of images and hatred of idols the ambiguities of destruction the ambiguities of substitution an unequal exchange the idol - devil or matter the idol - false image choosing the image the native riposte the hiding of the Gods the Conditions of secrecy the repercussions of idoloclasty. the walls of images: the war against the demon the Franciscan memory-image semblance-image the image from Flanders the bull and the Indian the walls of images visible and invisible spaces the spectacle-image the pre-Hispanic tradition celestial worlds, worlds of elsewhere informative special effects the native actor and public the baroque image's admirable effects Montufar of Granada the case of the Guadalupe virgin the satanic invention toward a new politics of the image the worship of saints exploiting miracles setting aside writing the arrival of the European painters words on images the "news of its miraculous origins" the launching of the image the most miraculous of images a perfect image the presence within the image Baroque images Florencia, the great orchestrator mises en scene and "special effects" territorialization and sacralization the federating power the treasures of the image public images, social and political images the shadow of the holy office the baroque image and the baroque imaginaire image consumers - the colonization of daily life sadism and release images and visions delirium and fantasies image, madness, and individuality the gaze of the vanquished contamination and interference indigenous reproduction the saint's adoption from domestic hearth to confraternity the santo's imaginaire the hot nights of Coatlan the subversion of the baroque image baroque imaginaires conclusion - from the enlightenment to televisa the brakes of enlightenment baroque religious practices under high surveillancel images and independence a national divinity the new walls of images televisa - the fifth power from baroque image to electronic image baroque consumption, syncretism and postmodernity.

Abstract: What is religious music? Part 1 The ages of Christian faith. Part 2 The rebirth of a rebirth - from Renaissance to High Baroque. Part 3 From Enlightenment to doubt. Part 4 From "the death of God" to "the unanswered question". Part 5 The ancient law and the modern mind.

Abstract: This is a brilliant survey, impressively well written, based on extraordinarily wide reading. It offers three principal features in its masterful survey of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade. First are a host of specific sketches, on topics ranging from earlier slavery within Europe, to the rise of a brilliant Creole society in the French West Indies, to the work routines of plantations on the British-held islands. Second is a thorough survey of most of the major features of the slave trade. Accounts of specific trading systems—Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English and French—are remarkably thorough, as are summaries of the numbers of people involved on both trader and slave sides. These accounts are then extended through discussion of the emergence of the actual slave-based economies, for example in Brazilian sugar. Third, and ultimately most interesting, is an extremely plausible effort to interpret the slave trade. Here, Blackburn focuses on two principal issues: why slavery was emphasized over other potential labor systems, and what the contribution of slavery was to the development of commercial and racial modernity.

Abstract: Introduction: Italian and French gardens: a century of historical study (1900-2000) Mirka Benes Introduction: landscape in context Dianne Harris 1. Italy is garden: the idea of Italy and the Italian garden tradition Claudia Lazzaro 2. Pressed labor and Pratolino: social imagery and social reality at a Medici garden Suzanne Butters 3. Pastoralism in the Roman Baroque villa and in Claude Lorrain: myths and realities of the Roman campagna Mirka Benes 4. '... dall'Agricoltura venne la Nobilita ...': the rural landscape of the Villa Mondragone near Frascati Tracy Ehrlich 5. Venaria Reale: ambition and imitation in a seventeenth-century villa Elisabeth Blair MacDougall 6. Landscape and representation: the printed view and Marc'Antonio Dal Re's Ville didelizie Dianne Harris 7. Women in the garden of allegory: Catherine de'Medici and the locus of female rule Sheila ffolliott 8. Gender, flowers, and the Baroque nature of kinship Elizabeth Hyde 9. Dress and address: garden design and material identity in seventeenth-century France Chandra Mukerji 10. Vaux-le-Vicomte: Le Vau's ambition Hilary Ballon 11. 'This is not a jarden anglais': Carmontelle, the Jardin de Monceau, and irregular garden design in late eighteenth-century France David Hays.

Abstract: Ludovico, Agostino, and Annibale Carracci played leading roles in bringing about the changes in style and outlook that transformed the art of painting around 1600. Working both as a team and as individuals, they turned away from the conventions of Mannerism to reinvigorate the Renaissance tradition and usher in a new style, at once naturalistic, classical, and spirited.Malvasia's "Life of the Carracci" has been the principal source of knowledge about these pioneering artists since its first publication in 1678 in Felsina pittrice, vite de' pittori bolognesi. Malvasia, a law professor and a literary man, was brilliant, innovative, and contentious. His biography of the Carracci is pivotal to his celebration of the Bolognese contribution to Baroque art and provides a window onto the cultural life of seventeenth-century Italy. The worlds of artisans, artists, literati, and patrons intersect in his text, giving it incomparable historical and literary valueAlthough Malvasia's "Life of the Carracci" is widely cited, this is the first translation in any language and the first to offer an extended critical and historical commentary. Malvasia's own life is discussed, and his triple biography of the Carracci is situated within the intellectual and literary currents to which he responded.Richly illustrated, Summerscale's book will be an indispensable resource for art historians and students of seventeenth-century literature and historiography.

Abstract: (2001). If It's Baroque, Don't Fix It: Picasso's Exilic Resurrection of Velazquez and the (Ab)use of Las Meninas. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 173-189.

Abstract: The author analyzes the different expressions of the magic in Madrid under the Hapsburgs, in the context of the Baroque mentality and the morality of the Counter-Reformation. These expressions were, among others, asthrology, the casting of horoscopes, palmistry, witchcraft and the interpretation of unusual or extraordinary events. The author aims to show the way in which the Crown as well as the Church often used these expressions for their own interests, thereby preserving the status quo and the people's disfranchisement.

Abstract: Southwest Germany, like the rest of Catholic Europe, experienced the Counter-Reformation in the form of measures taken by both the Church and Catholic states to combat the spread of Protestantism. Catholic leaders in this part of Germany also worked to implement the reforms of the Church, the clergy, and religious practice advocated by the Council of Trent. Tridentine reforms came to the Southwest in the later sixteenth century as Catholic officials pursued reforms of the clergy and made tentative efforts to reform popular religious practice. Tridentine reform was slowed by the conservative and traditional nature of many powerful ecclesiastical institutions, especially the great monasteries, and by the relatively late arrival of the Jesuits in the region, but it left an indelible mark on the Church. The period from 1550 to the end of the Thirty Years' War was the era most marked by Tridentine reform and the related processes of Counter-Reformation and confessionalization, although the decrees of the Council of Trent remained a blueprint for church reform into the eighteenth century. Yet even during these decades of reform, an analysis of the successes and failures of reform measures does not do justice to the complex interplay of social groups that created Catholic religiosity and culture.

Abstract: Splendid baroque facades in a tangle of trees and vines attest a unique union of Jesuit priests and native tribes in the heart of South America.

Abstract: This study and critical edition of a text by Cerda de Tallada, which has never been published so far, deals with the expulsion of the Valencian Moors in 1609. The text, which is incomplete, contains, nevertheless, numerous facts of historiographic interest and is a remarkable example of Valencian chronicles from the Baroque period.

Abstract: Originated by different proffesions, the need for organization the existing knowledge from the Middle Age produce during the Renaissance the publication of methods of work. Not only were it publicated books about science and art, but it were publicated also about tailoring. The purpouse that it were designed the latter ones was to cut as economically as possible from expensive materials and to stablish standars for styles. The album of un anonymous Milan tailor is the only work wich can be considere to precede Juan de Alcega's Geometria, Practica y Traca . Based on Alcega's book, others were published during the Baroque with the same title Geometria y tracas , suposing un step-fordward in the teaching and learning the art of tailoring.

Abstract: This book explores mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the 17th century. James Shepard examines the poems contained in Tristan's "Plaintes d'Acante et autres ouvres", "Les Amours", "La Lyre" and the "Vers heroiques"; his religious poetry; "La Renomme"; and his recently discovered poems. He reveals Tristan's amatory poetry as mannerist, and his heroic and religious poetry as baroque; many poems, however, contain elements of both styles. Shepard also uncovers a "baroque dompte" style - the toned-down baroque that some argue characterized French classicism - in some of Tristan's heroic and religious poetry.

Abstract: The entremes and its actors played an important role, both financially and thematically, in the theater of the baroque period. Many critics have overlooked this historical fact. The analysis of the entremes and its distinctive mundo al reves sheds new light on the hitherto-perceived seventeenth-century theater production and baroque society in general. The infamous Juan Rana was the star of this genre, and during his long and successful career he collaborated with the most important entremisil and comedia companies of the time. His arrest in 1636, for el pecado nefando , served as a thematic point of departure for the many entremesistas who wrote specifically for him. Such is the case of Lanini y Sagredo's gender-bending El parto de Juan Rana . Here, the emasculated and hen-pecked protagonist is put on trial and sentenced to appear in public, dressed as a woman. Juan Rana's well-advanced pregnancy, symbolizing the exaggerated extent of his irregular behavior, serves as a histrionic and hysterical parody of the societal constructs and constrains enforced by the powers that be. The climactic and much celebrated birth of Juan Ranilla represents the acceptance of the other, of difference by his peers. Ultimately, El parto de Juan Rana embodies an unabashed and over-the-top critique of patriarchal authority that still rings true today.

Abstract: (2001). Wilbur's Baroque Wall Fountain at the Villa Sciarra. The Explicator: Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 153-156.

Abstract: Subject Opera Music Theory and Analysis Baroque Music Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online