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5. Baroque painting. The Golden Age of the Spainsh painting

There are various features common to all Baroque painting:

- The importance of colour over drawing.

-A focus on light. (interplay of light and shade)

- Realism

- The search for movement (foreshortening, asymmetry)

European schools:

- Italy: Caravaggio. tenebrism, a style characterised by an abrupt contrast between dark and light

- Flanders: Rubes.Predominance of colour

-Netherlands: Rembrandtand Vermeer are the artists that best reflect this school of Protestant Baroque painting.

Spainsh Baroque Painting

-Velázquez: Masterful use of light, complex compositions, realism (Las Meninas)

-Zurbarán, influenced by Caravaggio's tenebrism.

-Ribera: religious paintings and portraits reflect Caravaggio's tenebrism

- Murillo: represented reality in a tender, idealised light.