Protestant or Catholic Baroque

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Protestant or Catholic Baroque?
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• Baroque
• heavily ornate, complex, strange, or in bad taste

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Northern Baroque

• Depictions of themselves
• Landscape, cities and domestic life
• Well educated
• Fascinated by history, mythology, the Bible,
  Scientific discovery, commercial expansion
• Influence of the Protestant Reformation
• Paintings should be instructive as well as
  beautiful

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Counter Reformation

• Church used art to
• encourage piety among the faithful
• Encourage heretics to return to the church
• Influence largest possible audience
• Doctrinally correct

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Caravaggio, Entombment of Christ
Rembrandt, Sacrifice of Isaac
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Vermeer, The Art of Painting