Roberta Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 11062650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | 2The New-York Historical Society and Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
St. Benedict Sees the Light
During the Baroque period, artists worked in a style—encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church and the Council of Trent—that revealed the divine in natural forms and made religious experiences more accessible. Cosmas Damian Asam, painter and architect, and his brother Egid (Aegid) Quirin Asam, sculptor and stuccatore, were the principal exponents of eighteenth-century, southern-German religious decoration and architecture in the grand manner, the G…
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St. Benedict Sees the Light
During the Baroque period, artists worked in a style—encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church and the Council of Trent—that revealed the divine in natural forms and made religious experiences more accessible. Cosmas Damian Asam, painter and architect, and his brother Egid (Aegid) Quirin Asam, sculptor and stuccatore, were the principal exponents of eighteenth-century, southern-German religious decoration and architecture in the grand manner, the G…
Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Baroque (1 work) · Brother (1 work) · German (1 work) · Historical and Architectural Studies (1 work) · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (1 work) · Historical Geography and Cartography (1 work) · History (1 work)