BAROQUE AND ROMANTICISM ART PERIODS: A COMPARISON

Baroque and Romanticism Art Periods: A Comparison

Baroque and Romanticism Art Periods: A Comparison

During the Counter-Reformation the prominent sculptor Gian Bernini produced Baroque works with dramatic swirling, twisting forms. Attracting the patronage of the papacy, Bernini and his school of sculptors were commissioned to create statues for the interior and the outside colonnade of the new St. Peter's.

The royal and aristocratic figures in France backed works by Leonardo da Vinci and others (Gombrich, 1998). Indeed, political leaders established a tie between state and religious power and monumental art. Marie de Médicis continued this trend when she ...