Baroque
sculpture: Italy
- Bernini (1598-1680)
- style: “Dynamic” tendencies
- influences: Hellenistic antiquity
- patrons: papacy in Rome
- Baroque qualities:
- spatial order: active vs. self-contained
- realism of detail & differentiation of texture
- drapery: abstract play of folds & crevasses
- attempting pictorial effects traditionally outside sculpture’s domain