Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque (review)

Baroque architecture of the seventeenth century, like all visual arts, music, and sciences of that extraordinary period in Western Europe, was founded on a complex faith that allowed its masters to believe in an immanent reality expressed in space. Baroque visual order, swollen by novel disciplines that expanded canonical structures of knowing, was still ruled by a comprehensive [End Page 785] if much disputed theological system. Studies of Baroque artistic and architectural theory by Irving Lavin, Giancarlo Maiorino, and Robert Harbison have stressed this univocal intellectual order embracing an implausible plenitude of categories

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