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World Cultures Baroque Essay During the Baroque period, new ideas and views of society and of religion spurred up. To express these new ideas many ists used the ideas of past ists to further expand their own motives. " If I have seen further (than you and Desces), it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1676 The ists of the baroque period were using past ideals as a ladder to the prevalent and the gallant. Four pieces of that exceplified the usage of the great minds of the past were; The Rape of the Sabine Women by Nicholas Poussin, The east façade of the Louvre Palace, The View of Delft by Jan Vermeer and The Palace of Versailles. The magnificent work of ...

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the classical world. He sought for permanent in the momentary and the universal in the individual. Many ists of the time turned to classical Greece and Rome for their ideas. Another prime example is the East Façade of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. KING LOUIS XIV originally commissioned this piece of work to Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1665. The king's finance minister felt " it left the king housed no better than before." so his plan was rejected and a French architect named Claude Perrault was appointed to finish the job. This palace had to grand enough for the "sun-king", so Perrault used classical influences to achieve the proper grandness fit for a king. He used a long Corinthian colonnade, friezes, and pilasters. This acted as a restraining influence to the baroque ideas of the time. Greek and Roman influenced many Europeans, especially the monarchs of the time. No monarch showed that better than King Louis XIV of France. His rule of France's nobles required a large palace ...

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Added: 8/10/2005 05:09:13 PM
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