High Renaissance and Baroque Art: Caravaggio to Bernini

Explore the world of art during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Expert lecturers will bring to life artists of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, including El Greco, Bernini and Caravaggio.
The Reformation wrought havoc with the established order, and we consider its impact in painting, sculpture and architecture, tracing the emergence of a new Baroque style – most spectacularly in the work of Bernini and Borromini in Rome, but spreading rapidly to other parts of Europe..…

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