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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 ....

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.... 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 further enhance his love for the classical world. He sought for permanent in the momentary and the universal in the individual. Many ists of the time turned to classical Greece and Rome for their ideas. Another prime example is the East Façade of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. KING LOUIS XIV originally commissioned this piece of work to Gi ....