Baroque period started at the beginning of the seventeen century in Rome and Italy, and according to wikipedia.org the Roman Catholic Church was encouraging the Baroque style and decided that art should reflect and communicate religious themes, the baroque era exemplified by drama and grandeur in paintings, music, sculptures. Baroque paintings had a large amount of details often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of their characters and the paintings had a mixture of wonder and dread. In this paper I will be discussing three works of art made by very incredible artist from the baroque period, the Flight into Egypt made by Annibale Carracci, pastoral Landscape by Claude Lorrain and last but not least View of Haarlem form the Dunes at Overveen by Jacob Van Ruisdael.

Flight into Egypt by Annibale Carracci.
This is a beautiful landscape painting and is also religious; it was painted by Italian Baroque painter Annibale Carracci. In this painting Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary......

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Title: Art In Baroque Period
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