Discuss the Relation Between the Baroque Arts and the Seventeenth-Century

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Essay

Discuss the relation between the baroque arts and the seventeenth-century artistic public. In your answer, choose three masterpieces of the baroque arts (painting, music, architecture, sculpture, theater) and explain how each work appealed to a distinctive audience. Be specific in connecting the artist's choice of style, theme, form, or mode of presentation to the tastes of a particular audience in seventeenth-century society.

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