Though Baroque was superseded in many centers by the Rococo style, beginning in France in the late 1720s, especially for interiors, paintings and the decorative arts, Baroque architecture remained a viable style until the advent of Neoclassicism in the later eighteenth century.
While the Baroque period and the Rococo period originated in Europe, the Baroque period was largely inspired by the Roman Catholic church, which promoted religious themes in literature and the arts as a counter to the rise of Protestantism.
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Baroque & rococo : architecture & decoration / Anthony Blunt ... [et al.] ; edited by Anthony Blunt ; photographs by Wim Swaan
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The debut of Russian Baroque, or Petrine Baroque, followed a long visit of Peter the Great to western Europe in 1697–1698, where he visited the Châteaux of Fontainebleau and Versailles as well as other architectural monuments.
The arts present an unusual diversity in the Baroque period, chiefly because currents of naturalism and classicism coexisted and intermingled with the typical Baroque style.
Perhaps it is justifiable, then, to consider the Baroque as a category of aesthetic sensibility and thus recognize its global dimension. This number of The UNESCO Courier does not claim to paint a complete picture of the immense world of the Baroque.