ARTH 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Semiotics, Louis Le Vau
24 Jan 2017
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Appeal to rhetoric; things not logical that you cannot prove. So, the baroque takes this idea and tries to appeal to you with something new, something unexpected, blowing you away with things so impressive, so grand you need to catch your breath. The rhetorical appeal: before you are even able to consider it, you are al(cid:396)eady i(cid:374) a(cid:449)e; the (cid:396)heto(cid:396)i(cid:272)"s ha(cid:448)e (cid:449)o(cid:396)ked, you a(cid:396)e (cid:448)ul(cid:374)e(cid:396)a(cid:271)le to persuasion. Authoritarian: catholic reform movement, adapted by absolutist rulers. What is interesting about baroque is how all these factors come into play. Most often it is style; the spell of renaissance clarity breaking opens the doo(cid:396) fo(cid:396) people to push (cid:271)ou(cid:374)da(cid:396)ies . Ba(cid:396)o(cid:395)ue"s (cid:374)eed to (cid:271)(cid:396)eak-away from all these other styles, however, ends up going against at, as will be discussed. France emerges towards the end of the baroque period, regarding architecture. In france, a theoretical tradition replaced and pushed aside the italian control of architectural style.
