12/1/14

Baroque Woes

I had to use a piece of Baroque art in class today to illustrate a point, thus I used Caravaggio as I figured most of my classmates would know who I was speaking about. It made me sad.

Baroque art is so much more than Caravaggio, I wished in that moment I could show my classmates all of Baroque art and architecture and the overall aesthetic, but I had to settle for a simple stereotype. Sad day.

To cleanse my pallet, here's a picture of the library at Admont Abbey, a beautiful Baroque specimen:

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