Understanding the Baroque

When:
January 31, 2016 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm
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Where:
Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont St
Oxford OX1
UK
Cost:
£50/£45
Contact:
Ashmolean Museum
01865 305305

This study day transports you back to 17th century Catholic Europe where fear of Lutheran ideas caused drastic changes in the visual arts of the time. Diccaover how sacred stories and their alter pieces became more dramatic, colour heightened and facial and body gestures became vital tools of expression in preventing the spread of Lutheranism and promoting what Rome dubbed the ‘true faith’