Illustrated guide to the works of Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, as well as the paintings of some of his assistants, collaborators, and pupils, with text discussing the characteristics and traditions of art in the Baroque era.
A history of the Baroque movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, looking at works characteristic of the period, and surveying major Italian, Spanish, and French artists whose works typify the Baroque style.
The architecture and visual arts of the baroque presented the world on a great stage. The pomposity of the popes in Rom, the splendor of the court of the Sun King, and the Dutch painting of the seventeenth century - all reflect different aspects of the idea of a God-given order.
