03 — ARTWORK
Nativity
- MEDIUM
- Marble, height 160 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1200 × 628 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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This group, now in the Saint-Roch, was originally executed for the high altar in the Val-de-Grâce, Paris. The mood which this BaroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. group expresses is not the ecstasy of the Roman Baroque but a sort of pathos which is purely French and, like Le Sueur's religious sentiment, seems to prepare the way for the eighteenth century.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Nativity by ANGUIER, Michel},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-12},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/anguier-michel-r2639889526767d/nativity-rda05d875a0bc4e},
urldate = {2026-09-12},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-12. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
