Foreign Book, French, Hardcover Baroque and Art Nouveau. The Mirror of Metamorphosis. (Hardcover) Portoghesi, Paolo: Publisher: Seghers, Paris Publication Date: 1988 Binding: Hardcover Dust Jacket Included Translated from Italian by Anne Guglielmetti. A work in its original slipcase, illustrated dust jacket, full cloth binding with gold lettering, impeccable condition, 207 pages, abundantly illustrated, mostly in color, overall in new condition. "Baroque and Art Nouveau: Two sumptuous and feverish rings of a chain, uninterrupted, that of the art of complexity and multiple meanings which, in forms agitated by undulation and metamorphosis, seeks life and tirelessly recreates it (sic). As in a double mirror, this book juxtaposes the images of the creations of the two styles, from Bernini to Horta, from Borromini to Gaudí, from Neumann to Wagner: fascinating images that seem to generate each other and in which forms, lines and colors respond and explode in unison."