Until the end of March, people can "face" Caravaggio, celebrated as the founding father of Baroque art. In this painting, they will see his smart utilization of reduced colors — primarily black ...
Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist paintings for similar reasons. (Zeuxis was in competition with Parrhasius, whose painting was enigmatically curtained. Zeuxis was defeated when he tried ...
From literature to architecture to music, and from tombs to translations, the Baroque touched all aspects of Polish culture in the 17th century. Although Polish culture was subsequently repressed ...