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displayed worldly joy, exuberant decoration and uninhibited sensuality. It seems that the
baroque artists cottoned on to the modern mantra of advertising - sex sells.
In M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, Peter Robb gives a passionate personal assessment of
the artist's paintings and a colourful account of Caravaggio's life, arguing he was murdered for
having sex with the pageboy of a high-ranking Maltese aristocrat.
Arguably the best known of all baroque artists was the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680), who used works of religious art such as his Ecstasy of St Theresa in Rome's
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria to arouse feelings of exaltation and mystic transport.
In this and many other works he achieved an extraordinary intensity of facial expression
and a totally radical handling of draperies. Instead of letting these fall in dignified folds in
the approved classical manner, he made them writhe and whirl to intensify the effect of
excitement and energy.
 
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