With Vincent Arseneau

The Baroque period is inseparable from the profound religious and political transformations that shaped Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to art as a powerful tool of persuasion and emotion following the Council of Trent. In Rome, the Vatican became the laboratory of a new artistic language in which architecture, sculpture, and painting came together to glorify the faith.

In this lecture, Vincent Arseneau traces the birth and rise of the Baroque through the works of its greatest masters, revealing how light, movement, illusion, and theatricality profoundly transformed the history of Western art. The presentation will also explore how this style was adapted in France during the reign of Louis XIV, where it evolved into a more ordered and majestic artistic language: Classicism.

A fascinating journey into a world where art becomes spectacle, emotion, and power.

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