(Answered) Italian Baroque

Description Art historians note that Baroque artists built on the naturalism of the High Renaissance but also strove to create more engaging art with an effort to evoke nothing short of a revelation in the viewer – a sense of the marvelous – so that the viewer thinks about the subject in a new way. […]

(Answered) Art & architecture: Caravaggio and Italian Baroque

Caravaggio brought a new dimension to Italian Baroque art and revolutionized Western painting. Think about Caravaggio’s style, and why his style might have been considered revolutionary. Write an essay directed to a student with no background in Italian Baroque art, in which you identify the key techniques used by the artist that we now identify […]