In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Baroque (or baroque) was a period named not by its artists, but by its critics. Seen as an age of excess, “decadence and lunacy” (Sohm 229), nineteenth century historians sought to understand why Baroque was viewed so negatively. Heirich Wolfflin, a famous Swiss art critic, was instrumental in … Continue reading Lunacy or Legitimacy? the Baroque Age