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Baroque

Season 1 Episode 105 | 55m 16s

In the 1600s and 1700s, the art of "divine" kings and popes—and of revolutionaries and Reformers—tells the story of a Europe in transition. In the Catholic south, Baroque bubbled over with fanciful decoration and exuberant emotion. In the Protestant north, art was more sober and austere. And in France, the excesses of godlike kings gave way to revolution, Napoleon, and cerebral Neoclassicism.

Aired: 09/30/22 | Expires: 12/29/22
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art.
The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art.
Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000.
Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome.
Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world.
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As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art.
The Romans gave Europe its first taste of a common culture—and awe-inspiring art.
Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000.
Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome.
Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world.