Even though the 17th century was chock full of wars in Europe, such as the Thirty Year’s War, this immense violence surprisingly had virtually no effect on the art’s imagery, “although we can still catch indirect glimpses of it in Dutch Militia scenes such as Rembrandt’s Night Watch” (Janson 528). Unlike many paintings of the High Renaissance, Baroque art seldom depicts scenes linked to science and philosophy – even though this time period was home to many great thinkers – because by this time, science and philosophy had become far too complex for the artist to share with the viewer: “Gravitation and calculus cannot spur the artist’s mind anymore than Descartes’ famous motto, ‘I think, therefore I am’” (Janson 528)...
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The papacy commissioned art on an incredible scale, and every painter’s kit needs some green. The Baroque movement began as early as 1585, but the artists in Rome at this time were Late Mannerist artists with “little talent” (Janson 529). Those who would eventually lead the Baroque campaign were young, talented artists from Northern Italy, and the without-a-doubt most notable artist to take the first steps into the Baroque period was Caravaggio...
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bAROQUE AND ROMANTICISM Baroque is a style in which painters, sculptors, and architects rummaged emotion, movement, and variety in their works, there are three different types of Baroque art : Baroque that was primarily associated with the religious tensions within Western Christianity: division on Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Baroque that use revolutionary technique of dramatic, selective illumination of figures out of deep shadow, and Baroque that was developed mainly in Flemish countries emphasis realism of everyday life...	1 / 226
Baroque vs Classical The original source of the Enlightenment was the faith in reason that led to the great scientific discoveries of the Baroque period. Then the emphasis went away from the purely intellectual and scientific toward the social sphere...	3 / 772
Baroque Period He even goes as far to say it is as if they are already married, and that she would be committing three sins if she killed the flea, because it would be as if she were killing herself, him and committing a sacrilegious crime...	2 / 553
Baroque music The music of the Baroque itself is very colorful and dramatic. The word-painting of Bach's cantatas can involve torturous melodic lines and extraordinary harmonies that are trademarks of the age (Arnold 174)...	3 / 592