Watch Rick Steves Art of the Baroque Age 166v19

We'll tell the story of Europe in transition from bubbly Baroque to austere Neoclassicism. 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 , the excesses of godlike kings gave way to revolution, Napoleon, and cerebral Neoclassicism. 5p2059