Bubbly Baroque art and austere Neoclassicism; divine kings, Revolution, and Napoleon. In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes — and of revolutionaries and Reformers — tells ...

The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...