To Night And To A Girl Now Become A Beautiful Lady

The three works from the baroque era that were analyzed were the painting “The Triumph of the Immaculate” y Paolo de Matteis, and the sonnets “To Night” by Felix Lope de Vega and “To a Girl Now Become a Beautiful Lady” by Luis de Gongora. All of these works are very dramatic and expressive. ‘To Night” ravaged the concept of night and darkness and called it ‘a vile concealer, lynx that cannot see” and dramatized the horror of night with powerful language like in the quote above. During the 17th century, the Catholic Church had great power and the same time, was trying to fight off the influences of the recent Protestant reformation. Therefore, religion was often a major underlying factor of Baroque art, and in this piece, the dark and night were shunned, and the light (the light of religion/God) was obviously …show more content…
This type of Catholic Church commissioned art was also produced by Paolo de Matteis. His piece “The triumph of the Immaculate’ is a deeply layered and colorful painting with many sharp distinction between light and dark and bright and dull. God and the angels and holy men are at or near the top of the work, while the common people are at the bottom, but the light of God is still shed on