Museum
The Baroque art is characterized by strong contrasts, bold ornamentation, dramatic tension and religious passion.
In Partnership with:
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
17th Century in Italy
Italy has so much to say in Art.
There was the best schools (artists started to travel though the world to study better techniques), the best workers, the best Patrons...The cherry of the cake that was the world at that time.
Besides Italy, Portugal and Spain were the countries where there is more architecture based in this period.
On this Gallery I took only the pictures that were more significant to me.
It's the period of the Baroque.
The Baroque art is characterized by strong contrasts, bold ornamentation, dramatic tension and religious passion.
All types of art were encouraged (painting, sculpture, music, engraving and tapestry) by the Catholic church as a way of "fighting" the Protestants, and that is why we see the devotion and a poetic view about the Bible. Artists were "encouraged" to paint about it to cleanse their souls and gain an entry to heaven.
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| I love this painting. It's almost a mixture of Tapestry with engraving. |
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