{The Baroque Period}[7th May 1991]

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(Baroque)

(Early and High Baroque in Italy)

‘By the last decades of the 16^th century the Mannerist style had ceased to be an effective means of expression. Basically, it was a refined courtly style in which the subject matter was of less importance * than the mode by which it was represented. In Florence a conscious reassessment of High Renaissance painting was taking place by 1550;** and this movement gathered momentum in the last decades of the century, particularly with the Bolgonese painters Ludovico Caracci and his cousin Annibale.

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*{cf modern art?}

**2048G~|64C1536[ce]

64M~1552[ce]

***– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 25:352

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