Baroque art and architecture: Quick Facts
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| Also Known As | Baroque period |
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- Versailles, the palace and gardens built in this period, used a Baroque style and grandeur to portray the power and status of the monarchy.
- Art portraying everyday life and landscapes grew popular among lay art buyers.
- The popularity of paintings for the middle class rose in Protestant countries in correlation with the loss of church and monarchical funding for the arts.
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