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This is the best art book on the Baroque, and the magic is in the photographs. Ferrante Ferranti is not only a top-notch art photographer but also a specialist on the era, and it shows. No other book matches this one when it comes to capturing the sensuality, reflexivity, and sheer visual brilliance of the Baroque. There are only few of the conventional shots of famed buildings, but the carefully chosen details and unusual camera angles more than make up for it. For ultimately, unless you just want to check out the stock images of magnificent sights, the point of any art book is not to offer a catalogue but to give the reader a sense of why these artefacts continue to astound, move, and transform people. Ferranti is after that essence. The text likewise lavishes attention on detail and thereby succeeds in capturing something essential about the sensibilities of the time. At the end, these are the images that remain. You will spend many hours transfixed by them.