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French Baroque: The Grand Siècle
The great century of French painting under Louis XIV: Poussin's classical calm, the grandeur of Versailles, and the Academy that ruled French art for two centuries.
Born in Counter-Reformation Rome and split between the darkness of Caravaggio and the grace of Bologna: the drama that conquered Europe for a century.
Dutch Golden Age & the Dutch School
A republic of painters without court or church: the most specialized school in European art, and the manner that Europe never stopped imitating.
Rubens, van Dyck and the specialists of Antwerp: how a wounded city became the Baroque capital of northern Europe, and why its workshops still feed collections today.