Article: Baroque magnificence.(FARTHER / afield)(Baroque: 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence )

This spring the Victoria and Albert Museum examines the baroque as a style (not a period) that flourished, to varying degrees and at different moments, across Europe and her colonies between 1620 and 1800. Michael Snodin of the Victoria and Albert, who co-curated the exhibition with Nigel Llewellyn from the Tate, points out that they have broadened traditional examinations of the baroque by looking at it as a phenomenon that "traveled across the world," as evidenced in objects such as a tea table produced in Java and modified in England; a gilded Mexican altarpiece from the 1680s; and an early eighteenth-century Javanese screen, which, although incorporating Chinese ...

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