Baroque Art and the Magnificence of Rembrant Van Rijn
Baroque Art and the Magnificence of Rembrandt Van Rijn Baroque is a term used to define the style of art that originated in Rome at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With the outpouring of renewed confidence in spirituality during the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church, the new radical style of the Baroque developed. ... This skillful use of light and shade is sometimes referred to as a value of baroque artists. Other baroque values included the preoccupation with the dramatic potential of light, the scientific discoveries of the alignment of the planets, pure landscape painting was rising due to the active trade and colonization, and religion played a key role in baroque art with the Catholic church as an influential patron.