Baroque Period

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Chaffee, Kevin. "Baroque sights, sounds at the gallery." The Washington Times,

The National Gallery of Art set up a spectacular exhibit of the Baroque period that included scale models of baroque-era churches, palaces, military forts and grand public buildings. They had problems getting nearly 300 guests through the enormous exhibit. The huge exhibit took up the length of two entire corridors on the main and ground floors of the West Building. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8134619

Baroque in Art and Architecture." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. 2000.

This encyclopedia article outlines the emphasis of the baroque period on painting, sculpture, and architecture. The article explains how painters and sculptors from the baroque era expanded on the naturalistic tradition reestablished during the Renaissance and often combined different materials within a single work to simulate each other. Dividing the baroque period into the early baroque period (1590-1625), high baroque (1625-1660) period and...
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