they were alive with emotion.. A heightened sense of drama was achieved through the works of Caravaggio and Rembrandt depicted religious ecstasy, physical sensuality, or individual psychology in their paintings. All of the effects of this era of painting can be depicted in the painting by Diego Vela`zquez Les Meninas where the colors create a drama, ordinary people were used including himself, the painting extends throughout hallways and is reflected in a mirror, and is very humanistic.Baroque sculptors combined different materials within a single work and often used one material to accent another. One of the great masterpieces of baroque sculpture, Giovanni Berninis St. Theresa from the Cornaro Chapel, for example, to an ecstatic vision on a dull marble cloud in an alabaster and marble niche in which bronze rays descend from a hidden source of light. Many works of Baroque sculpture are set within elaborate architectural settings, and they often seem to be expanding out of their assigned niches or floating upward toward heaven.In music a style prevailed from the last decades of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century. The beginnings were in the late sixteenth century revolt against polyphony that gave rise to the accompanied to opera. With opera came the figured bass, used in ensemble music throughout the baroque era. Renaissance polyphony persisted, and considered more appropriate to the church than the opera. The baroque period was one of a controversy of styles. Originating in Italy, opera, oratorio, and cantata were the principal vocal forms. In instrumental music the sonata, concerto, and overture were creations of the baroque. In France and Italy the baroque by 1725 been overshadowed by its outgrowth, and it remained for Germany, where the baroque saw the expansion of Protestant church music. The Baroque era of music can be defined in one composers work Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a devout Lutheran w...
