Baroque Art

Baroque art and architecture, is the art and architecture of Europe and its Latin American colonies in the 17th and the first half of the 18th centuries. This style is associated, above all, with Peter Paul Rubens and Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini.
Baroque was first applied to the art of this period in the late 18th century, when the style itself had gone out of fashion. Eventually, however, as the classical rules lost their hold in the next hundred years and art historians began to look more objectively at the art of the past, baroque lost its critical significance. By the early 20th century, first specialists and later a wider art-loving public saw that baroque artists and architects had made a positive and original contribution to European art.
For all its vigor, the baroque style was not absolutely new, in the sense that Gothic art or cubism were new. Formally, it owed much to Renaissance art and architecture...