The visual arts of the baroque-above all its architecture-were instruments in a production on the world's great stage. The play's first act, taking place around 1600, was set in Rome, and it was from here that this style spread across the rest of Europe. The popes, the chief patrons of baroque art were concerned not only with celebrating their personal status but also with the glorification of God and propagation of the Catholic faith during the Counter-Reformation.
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Baroque: Architecture. Sculpture. Painting / ed. R. Toman.- Cologne: Könemann, 1998.- 503 p.- İngilis dilində.