baroque art
Lavish theatrical style
Baroque art is the ornate, dramatic style of European painting, sculpture, and architecture that flourished from the late 16th through early 18th centuries.
Characterized by rich color, bold contrasts of light and shadow, emotional intensity, and dynamic movement, it served both Catholic Counter-Reformation religious fervor and absolutist royal grandeur: Caravaggio's chiaroscuro epitomizes baroque art.
The style spread from Rome throughout Europe and to colonial Latin America.
- dramatic lightingHigh-contrast, mood-setting illumination
- theatricalityExaggerated, showy manner
- marble sculptureFigure carved from metamorphic rock
- religious fervorIntense spiritual devotion
- emotionComplex psychological state
Bernini · divine ecstasy · Caravaggio · oil painting · Counter-Reformation · Catholic Church · chiaroscuro · illusionism · grandeur · martyrdom · dynamism · 17th century · allegory · sculpture · architecture · absolutism · ornamentation · mythology
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- visual artdrawing, fine art, painting, portrait, sketch
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baroque artminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
minimalist art · minimalist design · brutalism · clean lines · Bauhaus
baroque artneoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
neoclassical art · modernism · Bauhaus · Renaissance art · High Renaissance