French Baroque vs Italian Baroque Furniture — Two Traditions, Two Worldviews and What They Mean for Collectors Today
When the Baroque emerged in Rome around 1600, no one in Italy was thinking about how it would look when it reached Paris seventy years later. The style was a religious response, an instrument of the Catholic Counter-Reformation deployed to inspire awe and devotion in the faithful. By the time Louis XIV’s France adopted and […]