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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 172: The Reformation and the Baroque Age
The roots of Baroque go back to the 1500s and the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. Art was the media and the advertising of the day. It told the story of the religious wars — the way each side wanted it told.
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