The Baroque Age

Provides color and black and white illustrations with text presenting the architecture as well as the visual arts of the Baroque Age. Presents the works of the Baroque masters; Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, and Caravaggio in Italy, the movement's birthplace and stronghold; and Charles Le Brun, Peter Paul Rubens, Christopher Wren and many others in Northern Europe. Heroic figures, religious subjects and elaborate ornamentation all make up the imagery and themes that dominate the age. --Adapted from publisher description.