... rather than relying on inhuman awkwardness, such as in Lautrec's painting. Lautrec's "At the Moulin Rouge" might be remembered as an important painting in art history, perhaps, because of what it represents. The composition, with its oblique perspective, acid palette, bizarre artificial lighting, and mask-like faces, is ... depiction of Gianlorenzo Bernini's sculpture of David. This is what I feel as a good example of the idea of tension to describe a scene portrayal in art. However, unlike Tintoretto's piece, Bernini utilizes a three-dimensional sculpture chizelled from marble using a s...

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... The baroque is a cultural movement in European history , the lavish, heavy decoration and curvaceous, complex forms evolved in Rome around c1620-1660 as an expression of Catholic resurgence. Architecture was used as a means of propagating faith in the Church. Art historians, have traditionally emphasized that the Baroque period falls in a time which the Roman Catholic Church had ... to react against the many revolutionary cultural movements that produced a new science and new forms of religion (Reformation). It has been said that the monumental Baroque is a ... and sculpture this was a...

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