Barokno kiparstvo sjeverue Hrvatske  Baroque Sculpture in Northern Croatia 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2014742B

  Author(s)

  Baricevic, Doris

  City

  Zagreb 

  Country

  Croatia 

  Language

  Croatian 

  ISBN

  9789530612792 

  Date of Publication

  2008 

  Publisher

  Skolska knjiga  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  488 

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Baričevic, Doris

  Publisher

  Školska knjiga  

• Description

  Baroque Sculpture in Northern Croatia "Speaking of Baroque in northern Croatia, we are referring to the historically conditioned artistic expression of our environment in the 17th and 18th centuries as a result of the creative adoption and processing of artistic impulses that arrived from neighboring countries, as well as the specific profile of this style in our area. From its homeland of Italy, Baroque, accompanied by the Counter-Reformation, penetrated north into almost all European countries and became a pan-European style, whose abundance of expressive possibilities everywhere encouraged an extraordinary flourishing of artistic activity. Baroque flourished in particularly diverse forms and rich nuances in the countries of Central Europe, among which those in the Alpine region merged into a unique cultural and artistic world with a strong centuries-old tradition of wood carving. Artistic influences from that area penetrated the historically and administratively connected northern Croatia, reaching fertile soil there. Stylistic impulses from Central European artistic centers soon merged with the domestic environment and, adapting increasingly to its conditions, began to transform themselves in a specific way. Thus, Baroque art in all its manifestations soon became a general means of expression and penetrated all the way to folk art, where it remained strongly and longest.