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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Baroque

The artist style or art movement that greatly exaggerated or interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur of the Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth century. The Baroque style was popular in Catholic countries.

The Throne of Saint Peter, 1657-66, marble, white and gilt, and stained glass, overall about 100 feet, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican, Rome.

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