Baroque visual rhetoric

Contents

Introduction -- Critical perspectives -- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and inexpressibility -- Death and dying in St. Peter's Basilica: part 1 -- Death and dying in St. Peter's Basilica: part 2 -- Eighteenth-Century Baroque: the style that did not (quite) die -- Narrative and symbol in the Apostle's series, San Giovanni in Laterano -- Fear and trembling in Francesco Borromini's Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza -- Baroque conceits: Domenichino and Baciccio -- Bernini and the metaphor of the fiery angel -- Blaise Pascal, Jansenists, Jesuits, and the Lettres Provinciales -- The Corsini Chapel: its sense of place and time.