Baroque Art Paper

Baroque period started at the beginning of the seventeen century in Rome and Italy, and according to wikipedia.org the Roman Catholic Church was encouraging the Baroque style and decided that art should reflect and communicate religious themes, the baroque era exemplified by drama and grandeur in paintings, music, sculptures. Baroque paintings had a large amount of details often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of their characters and the paintings had a mixture of wonder and dread. In this paper I will be discussing three works of art made by very incredible artist from the baroque period, the Flight into Egypt made by Annibale Carracci, pastoral Landscape by Claude Lorrain and last but not least View of Haarlem form the Dunes at Overveen by Jacob Van Ruisdael.

Flight into Egypt by Annibale Carracci.
In this painting Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary take the Jesus Christ as an infant into Egypt, escaping from Herod the Great. In this painting I’m focusing in the landscape more than the Religious part of the painting, this painting shows love for the country made in oil on canvas it was made on 1604 measures 122 × 230 cm, in this painting you can see the sky in a gray tone there is also a small modern city in the background you also see a beautiful nature scenario with trees as well as different characters, other than Jesus, Mary and Joseph you can see a herder and his sheep’s as well as a person in a wood boat in a small river as well as birds flying, is a beautiful scenario that makes you feel relaxed and