Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth
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Annibale Carracci
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art historiography
Author_Christopher Braider
Baroque Culture
baroque identity formation studies
baroque philosophy
Caravaggio's Conversion
Carnal Darkness
Cartesian dualism critique
Cartesian Science
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Cerasi Chapel
crossroads
culture
Discours De La Methode
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Early Modern Visual Culture
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Face To Face
french
French Baroque
Friedrich Sustris
gender construction
Georges De La Tour
hercules
Hyperbolic Doubt
Imitatio Naturae
La Tour
Le Moi
metaphysics of soliloquy
modern
Naked Lady
pascal's
Pascal's Critique
Pascal's Pensees
pensees
Pope Paul III
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Van Rijn
stoicism in art
Stultifera Navis
Timeless
Violated
visual
Product details
- ISBN 9780754638810
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static representations that depict an emblematic demigod who has already rejected the fallen path of worldly Pleasure for the upward road of heroic Virtue. Braider argues that, in breaking with tradition in order to portray a tragic soliloquist whose dominant trait is agonized indecision, Carracci joins other baroque artists, poets and philosophers in rehearsing the historical dilemma of choice itself. Carracci's picture thus becomes a framing device that illuminates phenomena as diverse as the construction of gender in baroque painting and science, the Pauline ontology of art in Caravaggio and Rembrandt, the metaphysics of baroque soliloquy and the dismantling of Cartesian dualism in Cyrano de Bergerac and Pascal.
Christopher Braider is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Refiguring the Real: Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700 (1993) and Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama (2002).
