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=Some Notable Characteristics of Baroque Art and Architecture:=

1. Use of light to convey emotional drama. 2. Captures subject "in the moment." 3. Ornate design--rich, explosive color, mixed media not uncommon 4. Invisible complement--something outside the frame completes the meaning of the work. 5. Three dimensional quality to paintings as well as sculpture. 6. Kinetic painting and sculpture, full of energy and movement. 7. Dramatic use of light in different ways from Versailles to Vermeer and Rembrandt. 8. Updated old religious or classical themes to the 17th century style of dress and living. 9. Very sharp contrasts between light and dark, sensual and sacred, good and evil. 10. Baroque architecture was often monumental in size, evoking a sense of absolute power. 11. Twists, turns, diagonals, spirals, but not as elongated and distorted as Mannerism (which was an early experiment in Baroque art.)