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World Cultures Baroque Essay During the Baroque period, new ideas and views of society and of religion spurred up. To express these new ideas many ists used the ideas of past ists to further expand their own motives. " If I have seen further (than you and Desces), it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1676 The is ...

Part two of term paper
... work of Nicholas Poussin shows the mixture of Roman architecture and ideas. He copied the body sculptures and the basilicas of ancient Rome and added them to his medium of oil. Poussin traveled to Roman museums for inspiration and models. In The Rape of the Sabine Women, he shows how he balanced his by carefully arranging opposites. Since he used statues for models, the people in his painting look to be chiseled and very statuesque. Poussin also uses a background of a Roman city to furth ...