Baroque Art

The Cultural movement of Baroque has often been identified with the that of Absolutism? and the [Counter Reformation]?, though the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states undercuts this unity.

The Council of Trent, in which the Roman Catholic Church answered many questions of internal reform raised by Protestants and those who remained inside the Catholic Church, addressed the representational arts by demanding that paintings and sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed. This turn toward a populist conception of the function of ecclesiastical art is seen by many [art historians]? as driving the innovations of Caravaggio and the Carracci? brothers, all of whom were working (and competing for commissions) in Rome around 1600.

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