The Protestant disapproval of religious imagery led Dutch painters of the Baroque period to focus on idolatry.
portraits and scenes of ordinary life.
Portraits and scenes of ordinary life.
Protestants disapproved of religious imagery
Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo painters focused most on technical detail and perspective. For Baroque painters, emotion was the main focus.
The baroque style focused on portraits and scenes of ordinary life because protestants disapproved of religious imagery.
Arthur McComb has written: 'The Baroque painters of Italy'
The Catholic and Protestant churches worked together to support composers during the Baroque period.
heroic landscapes
Baroque
heroic landscapes
heroic landscapes
Baroque was the "dramatic" style of church that was often built after the protestant reformation. See examples at the link below:
I believe they were more ''genre artists'' ,in the sense that they were -inluenced by their religion which was and is , Protestantism -more focused on depicting every day life domestic scenes and also moralising scenes with emphasis on the details.This was not true for Italian artists for example, who depicted more allegorical and mythology-influenced scenes in their paintings. In the bottom line , I think the main differences were based on religion :Italy and other countries were expressing the baroque style in their churches and religious paintings or statues whereas Dutch baroque painters were restricted by Protestantism in depicting domestic scenes. In my opinion this fact helped them create masterpieces too and lead to the resurgence of many great artists of the time in Holland.