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Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth - Hercules at the Crossroads (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth - Hercules at the Crossroads (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in European Cultural Transition
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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.
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