Mesopotamian Art And Structure

Succeeding Mannerism, and growing because of religious tensions throughout Europe, Baroque art emerged within the late 16th century. The name may derive from ‘barocco’, the Portuguese word for misshaped pearl, and it describes art that combined emotion, dynamism and drama with powerful shade, realism and strong tonal contrasts. Between 1545 and 1563 on the Council of Trent, it was decided that religious art should encourage piety, realism and accuracy, and, by attracting viewers’ consideration and empathy, glorify the Catholic Church and strengthen the picture Art Galery of Catholicism. In the following century the unconventional new kinds of Baroque art both embraced and developed High Renaissance models, and broke new ground both in non secular art and in new varieties of secular art – above all panorama. The Baroque and its late variant the Rococo were the first really international kinds in the arts, dominating more than two centuries of art and structure in Europe, Latin America and past from circa 1580 to circa 1750.