1924. These essays on Baroque Art constitute more than merely a
book of music and art criticism. They are an attempt at a
recreation, through a consideration of its artistic expression, of
the civilization of seventeenth and eighteenth century Spain and
Italy. The more famous names are deliberately omitted, the artists
considered being the many lesser masters about whom the critical
exegesis has not yet raged, and whose names are for the most part
unfamiliar even to those with some pretensions to a knowledge of
the period. It is through his analysis of the common motive force
which actuated the productions of these men that Mr. Sitwell has
arrived at an interpretation of the art and the spiritual life of
the time to which a book of purely formal criticism might perhaps
never have brought him. The book is in this way complementary to
all the existing literature on the subject, and it provides an
extremely valuable and definitive study of Baroque Art both for the
student and the general reader. The wonders that the author
describes are confirmed by the plates with which the work is
illustrated.
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