![]() This volume portrays the entire span of the fine arts of the baroque era, from rich splendor to religious asceticism ![]() The baroque art of the popes in Rome, the displays of power and opulence in the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and Dutch painting- all reflect different aspects of the underlying tension between pleasure in life and fear of death that was such a prominent feature of the baroque world view. During the baroque period, architecture and the other fine arts were the instruments of a staging of "world theatre" on a grand scale. ![]()
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