After the classicism of the Renaissance which featured values such as high morals, the intellect over the passions, courage, calmness, optimism, prudence and civic mindedness, Baroque art features romanticism, including action, drama, tragedy, passion, foreboding, turbulence, the mysterious and the magical. Greek mythology is a recurrent theme.
Baroque Art
El Greco - View of Toledo - c. 1599
Caravaggio - The Taking of Christ - 1602
Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton - 1604
Baroque Architecture
Later Baroque architecture is dominated by rococo. It is ornamental, busy, complex, and often an overload of sensuality.
Trevi Fountain, Rome - 1762
Asamkirche, Munich - 1733 - 1746
Palace of Versailles
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