The Baroque aesthetic spread from the church to the secular world. Over the course of the next century and into the 18th, Baroque art spread through Europe and over those areas of the world the Europeans colonized. The glorious churches, architectural wonders without and within were monuments to the glory of the creator, and if in the process they shed a bit of that glory on the nobles and churchmen who commissioned them, and even the artists who built them, well that was simply a little gravy. Religious art was asked to reach into the viewer’s deepest soul and evoke a sense of the divinity. What had been seen as bombast is now looked on as a kind of visual rhetoric aimed at fostering a set of values about the nature of the world.īeginning in Italy in the late 16th century as part of the Counter Reformation, Baroque art had its roots in the church and religion. In recent years that view has changed and the art of the Baroque has undergone something of a renaissance.
In a critical environment that favored the cleaner and simpler lines of Classicism, it seemed cluttered. It doesn’t seem that long ago that Baroque art was treated with something approaching disparagement.
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