Editing Sculpture (section)

====Baroque and Rococo====
{{main|Baroque sculpture}}
[[File:Apollo and Daphne (Bernini).jpg|thumb|[[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], ''[[Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)|Apollo and Daphne]]'' in the [[Galleria Borghese]], 1622–1625]]
In Baroque sculpture, groups of figures assumed new importance, and there was a dynamic movement and energy of human forms— they spiralled around an empty central vortex, or reached outwards into the surrounding space. Baroque sculpture often had multiple ideal viewing angles, and reflected a general continuation of the Renaissance move away from the relief to sculpture created in the round, and designed to be placed in the middle of a large space—elaborate fountains such as Bernini's [[Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi]] (Rome, 1651), or those in the [[Gardens of Versailles]] were a Baroque speciality. The [[Baroque]] style was perfectly suited to sculpture, with [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]] the dominating figure of the age in works such as ''[[The Ecstasy of St Theresa]]'' (1647–1652).<ref>Boucher, 134–42 on the [[Cornaro chapel]]; see index for Bernini generally.</ref> Much Baroque sculpture added extra-sculptural elements, for example, concealed lighting, or water fountains, or fused sculpture and architecture to create a transformative experience for the viewer. Artists saw themselves as in the classical tradition, but admired [[Hellenistic]] and later Roman sculpture, rather than that of the more "Classical" periods as they are seen today.<ref>Boucher, 16–18.</ref>

The [[Protestant Reformation]] brought an almost total stop to religious sculpture in much of Northern Europe, and though secular sculpture, especially for portrait busts and [[tomb monument]]s, continued, the [[Dutch Golden Age]] has no significant sculptural component outside goldsmithing.<ref>Honour and Fleming, 450.</ref>  Partly in direct reaction, sculpture was as prominent in [[Roman Catholic church|Roman Catholicism]] as in the late Middle Ages. Statues of rulers and the nobility became increasingly popular. In the 18th century much sculpture continued on Baroque lines—the [[Trevi Fountain]] was only completed in 1762. [[Rococo]] style was better suited to smaller works, and arguably found its ideal sculptural form in [[Ceramic art#Porcelain|early European porcelain]], and interior decorative schemes in wood or plaster such as those in French domestic interiors and [[Architecture of cathedrals and great churches#Rococo|Austrian and Bavarian pilgrimage churches]].<ref>Honour and Fleming, 460–67.</ref>

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File:Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon - Louis XIV 1.jpg|Bust of [[Louis XIV]], 1686, by [[Antoine Coysevox]]
File:Francesco Mochi Santa Verónica 1629-32 Vaticano.jpg|Saint Veronica by [[Francesco Mochi]] (1640), [[Saint Peter's Basilica]]
File:Perseus Andromeda Puget Louvre MR2076.jpg|[[Pierre Paul Puget]], ''Perseus and Andromeda'', 1715, [[Musée du Louvre]]
File:Bustelli Liebesgruppe Der gestörte Schläfer BNM.jpg|[[Franz Anton Bustelli]], [[Rococo]] [[Nymphenburg Porcelain]] group
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