Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

Pro-Vatican Baroque featured big canvases, dramatic statues, and exuberant architecture. After a century of religious wars, pro-Vatican Baroque art featured big canvases, dramatic statues, exuberant ...

Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio is being hailed as the first artist to to use photographic techniques - 200 years before the invention of the camera. New research has showed that works by 16th ...