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What made Baroque art unique

Waldemar Januszczak describes how Baroque art grabbed peoples attention through a dramatic use of dark. Caravaggio's realistic, everyday faces replaced the idealistic characters in earlier religious paintings

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Baroque! - From St Peter's to St Paul'sEpisode 1

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