Baroque (jan 1, 1570 – oct 19, 1700)
Description:
-Combined classical ideals of Renaissance art with spiritual feelings of the counter reformation
-very bright and dark colors, strange, extravagant, response to counter-reformation
1. Baroque art reaches out to
people and provokes action;
designed to give
spontaneous personal
experience.
2. Baroque paintings are filled
with dramatic movement,
striking contrasts of light
and dark, vivid colors, and
earthly realism.
3. Baroque artists depicted the
heroic acts of martyrs and
saints to inspire the lower
classes to accept their own
suffering and not lose faith.
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