Baroque Influence On American Culture

After 1600 through the 1700’s, European culture generated a new artistic style, known as “The Baroque”. The term literally means "irregular pearl" and is use to describe the vibrant and wild artistic creativity of the seventeenth century. The newly created Baroque style grew out of the Catholic “Counter-Reformation”. Later on as the style spread to northern Europe, it became popular at royal places that use this new style as a symbol freshly emerging monarchies. As the book explains, Baroque style exhibits a combination of power, massiveness, or dramatic theatrical, larger-than-life, color, and intensity. The Baroque style was popular in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. One historical event that was important in the baroque period was the incredibly popularity and success of the Baroque style that was heavily stimulated by the Roman Catholic Church, in response to the
But the most important event in my opinion was the newly created baroque style is because by looking at the pictures you can see technical brilliance. All paintings, sculptures, and architectures seems too harmonically joint together but what’s most interesting is this new three-dimensional effect never seen before which makes the paintings look both real and illusionary with remarkable visual effects. Baroque art seems to engage the viewer, both physically and emotionally by creating a highly developed naturalistic illusion’s. For example paintings and sculptures are added a dramatic lighting effects which creates a unique sense of almost theatricality effect just by looking at their movement of their