Over The Top: Baroque Art Past and Present
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Over The Top: Baroque Art Past and Present

The bold colors, lights and shadows, and dramatic stories employed by 17th-century artists painting in the baroque style are not lost to history. Contemporary artists are drawn to a similar aesthetic of theatrical extravagance. These tours explore artistic excess in the exhibitions A Passion for Paintings: Old Masters from the Wadsworth Atheneum at the MIA and Heart of Darkness at the Walker.