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  • Art Appreciation/Education series II class #4: Art of the Baroque

    01/23/2006 10:42:54 AM PST · by Republicanprofessor · 35 replies · 16,046+ views
    1/23/06 | republicanprofessor
    Finally, what with a snow day and all, I have time to write one more installment of the history of art. Today’s “lesson” is Baroque art. Baroque art dates from 1600-1715 or so. (The dates are different with different media. The end of Baroque art coincides with the death of King Louis XIV in 1715; Baroque music ends with the death of Bach in 1750.) The expansion in Baroque artistic space reflects the expansion of political empires (into the New World) and the expansion of scientific knowledge (the invention of microscopes and telescopes: with space expanding outward and contracting inward)....