Baroque and Romanesque Eras

Baroque Era

During the Baroque period, the British common wealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell brought increased religious toleration, trade, and military victories to England. Although he began as an obscure and inexperienced Member of Parliament in 1640, he quickly became one of the most powerful men in Parliament and played a decisive role in the revolution in 1648, which saw the trial and execution of the King and the abolition of monarchy and the House of Lords. As head of the army, Cromwell intervened several times to support or removes the republican regimes of the early 1650s. Eventually, he became head of state as Lord Protector, although he held that office under a written constitution that ensured that he would share political power with parliaments and a council.

As a result of Cromwell's military intelligence, artwork became more focus on barbaric war scenes. Like the paintings by Ernest Crofts, like Cromwell at the Storming of Basing House and Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Marston Moor, most paintings of this era choose to base artworks of Cromwell in his ingenious warfare by depicting his military glamour in support of his political influences.

Romanesque Era

We call can the Romanesque Era, the Era of Christian Religion. Christianity is the most influential religion of all time. People during this era priced Roman Christian artwork and relics more than anything. So it's no surprise that Roman Catholics had a heavy influence on artwork. The most dramatic of their artworks I think are their ideas of architecture.

The most suitable example that I have chosen as representation of the Roman basilica of the age of Constantine is the church of S. Maria Maggiore. In spite of certain modern alterations and harsh elemental changes, it has maintained its original features. Of this church, in its original form, no one however decidedly his tastes may incline to some more highly developed system or style of architecture will call in question the stately and majestic beauty.

Sources Used

http://www.art-of-europe.com/oliver_cromwell.htm

http://www.freeessays.cc/db/5/avk33.shtml

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