Ideas & Culture · 1545 · Turning point
Council of Trent / Counter-Reformation
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The Catholic Church's response to the Reformation directly commissioned Baroque art as an instrument of emotional persuasion: dramatic light, physical suffering, ecstatic saints. Art was engineered to make you feel rather than think.
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