Baroquemania
Cecchini, Laura Moure This book radically reconceptualises Italian post-unification visual culture by exploring an element that has, until now, been systematically ignored: its fraught entanglement with the Baroque. Evoking a glorious past - the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance - played a key role in constructing a common Italian identity following the country's unification in 1861. But the Baroque was considered too extravagant, kitsch, and whimsical...