Learn more about the Baroque period - Bach in Baltimore's favorite! - by adding this coffee table book to your collection.

"It was an age of continuous warfare and tension, of upheavals and tragic events that culminated in 1789 with the French Revolution. Traditional ideas were being questioned and overturned, and a sense of crisis was spreading. Men and women of surging ambition battled for position on a chessboard that now extended from Russia to the United States, while economic and social disparities were growing throughout Europe.

Perhaps the most surprising development of this turbulent time was Baroque art, the most fabulous and opulent style in the long history of Europe's figurative arts."