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The Baroque: The Grit in the Oyster of Art History Helen Hills wrote a story about the history of Baroque art and the qualities that separate its style. The author argues about the definition of Baroque, and its translation and historical context. Hill supports her conversation with her own opinion while looking at other art historians who explained what Baroque was and its history that went against everything the church wanted in a way. Support for her argument came from other ideas of Art Historians, and referencing the artwork to demonstrate its unique curves and emotional expression. The evidence used in her article hint at the time when artists started to record art history and label time periods. Taking notable …show more content…
Evidence of this was found relating the “Crucifixion with Saints” back to older paintings of the same story expressed differently. With that, Stonenescu used that evidence to support her argument on how Carracci’s interpretation has evolved from its Renaissance inspiration into a Renaissance tale with Baroque art qualities. The artist also looked back to Michelangelo, and wanted to go back to antiquity and reform art. Carracci used Byzantine frontal features, with Renaissance story telling, and new naturalistic humans from the Baroque art …show more content…
Catherine Puglisi knows about this, and decided to talk about the plague epidemic in medieval Europe. She focuses on Guido Reni’s “Pallione del Voto” as a piece of art, that tells us about the community, and what it was like to live during the plague. Reni’s “Pallione del Voto” was a banner painting describing how different life was between the plague victims and the patron’s gracious life of luxury. Pugliski details each of the figures and what they are doing along with the iconography that makes this painting easy to read and understand. Saints praying to god for help, while the gray pallet of heaven gave the impression of lost for hope unholy heaven. The saints were in full, dark colors, and stood out from the golden beam that was behind them showing the slight hope of god coming and saving them from this disease that destroyed the town of Bologna. Tools used to emphases her argument about plague artwork were other artist such as, Carracci, and Reni’s other works, which show more of the hard times that had yet to come during this