Editing Baroque (section)

===Condemnation and academic rediscovery===
The pioneer German art historian and archeologist [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]] also condemned the baroque style, and praised the superior values of classical art and architecture. By the 19th century, Baroque was a target for ridicule and criticism. The neoclassical critic Francesco Milizia wrote: "Borrominini in architecture, Bernini in sculpture, Pietro da Cortona in painting...are a plague on good taste, which infected a large number of artists."{{sfnp|Boucher|1998|p=9}} In the 19th century, criticism went even further; the British critic [[John Ruskin]] declared that baroque sculpture was not only bad, but also morally corrupt.{{sfnp|Boucher|1998|p=9}}

The Swiss-born art historian [[Heinrich Wölfflin]] (1864–1945) started the rehabilitation of the word Baroque in his ''Renaissance und Barock'' (1888); Wölfflin identified the Baroque as "movement imported into mass", an art antithetic to Renaissance art. He did not make the distinctions between Mannerism and Baroque that modern writers do, and he ignored the later phase, the academic Baroque that lasted into the 18th century. Baroque art and architecture became fashionable in the [[interwar period]], and has largely remained in critical favor. The term "Baroque" may still be used, often pejoratively, describing works of art, craft, or design that are thought to have excessive ornamentation or complexity of line.<ref>{{Cite web |last=asisbiz.com |date=2020-01-27 |title=Asisbiz article and photo's of 3 Zhongshan Road Shanghai China |url=https://www.asisbiz.com/China/3-Zhongshan-Rd.html |access-date=2022-10-24 |website=asisbiz |language=en}}</ref>  At the same time "baroque" has become an accepted terms for various trends in [[Roman art]] and [[Roman architecture]] in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, which display some of the same characteristics as the later Baroque.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}