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Baroque
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But if Cravaggio really is the first master of modern age to be slighted by reason of his artistic worth, then the baroque signifies an important turning point in the relationship between art and the public - namely, the end of the "aesthetic culture" which begins with the Renaissance and the beginning of the more rigid distinction between content and form in which formal perfection no longer serves as excuses for any ideological lapse.
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
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As an artistic style, mannerism conformed to a divided outlook on life which was, nevertheless, spread uniformly all over Western Europe; the baroque is the expression of an intrinsically more homogeneous world-view, but one which assumes a variety of shapes in the different European countries. Mannerism, like Gothic, was a universal European phenomenon, even if it was restricted to much narrower circles than the Christian art of the Middle Ages; the baroque, on the other hand, embraces so many
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― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
― The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
