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Also Known As Baroque period

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  • Versailles, the palace and gardens built in this period, used a Baroque style and grandeur to portray the power and status of the monarchy.
  • Art portraying everyday life and landscapes grew popular among lay art buyers.
  • The popularity of paintings for the middle class rose in Protestant countries in correlation with the loss of church and monarchical funding for the arts.

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Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith with Her Maidservant
Caravaggio: The Calling of St. Matthew
Francesco Borromini: coffered ceiling of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Georges de La Tour: The Lamentation over St. Sebastian
Palace of Versailles
St. Peter's Basilica
Nicolas Poussin: Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Peter Paul Rubens: Jagd auf Nilpferd und Krokodil (“Hunt for Hippopotamus and Crocodile”)
Egid Quirin Asam: detail of Baroque stuccowork
Woodstock, England: Blenheim Palace
The unique drama of Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ
What is everyone looking at in Las Meninas?
Did The Night Watch cause Rembrandt's downfall?
What inspired Peter Paul Rubens's Descent from the Cross?
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