Late Baroque

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In Western painting: Late Baroque and Rococo
Symptomatic of the changing status of the papacy during the 17th century was the fact that the Thirty Years’ War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 without papal representation in the negotiations. Concurrently, the influence of Spain also…
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In Western painting: Central Europe
…perhaps more representative of the Late Baroque than the Rococo. The frescoes of Matthäus Günther, who became director of the Augsburg Academy in 1762, show a steady evolution from his early Baroque compositions, through the much lighter asymmetrical Rococo compositions, to the strongly sculptural quality of his late works, which…
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