baroque art
Baroque is the general term given to the style of artistic expression from the late 16th century to the middle of the 18th. Ironically, the term was first used contemptuously by critics to describe architecture and paintings that failed to meet their standards of beauty. Baroque art is an "intense movement of explosive energy." It is a powerful, awe inspiring, resplendent style that is full of flamboyant concepts and an overall dramatic quality. There are three categories of Baroque art: Counter-Reformation Church of Rome; the aristocratic courts of Louis XIV of France and the Stuarts of England; and the bourgeois merchants of Holland. Counter-Reformation Baroque was created by the Jesuits in 1534. Michelangelo Merssisi da Caravaggio startled the world with his The Conversion of St. Paul. The paintings' biblical scene was that of one never seen before. Caravaggio displayed chiaroscuro throughout th
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