Baroque, in art and architecture, a style developed in Europe during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. The baroque style is characterised by an emphasis on unity and movement among the arts. With technical brilliance, the baroque artist achieved an outstanding harmony wherein painting, sculpture, and architecture were brought together in new spatial relationships, both real and illusionary, often with spectacular visual effects. Although the restrained and classical works created by most French and English artists look different from the high-spirited works favoured in central and southern Europe and in the New World, both trends in baroque art tend to engage the viewer, both physically and emotionally. In painting and scu
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