BAROQUE	period of artistic style that started around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread throughout the majority of Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Describes something that is elaborate and highly detailed.
COUNTER REFORMATION	the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.
REFORMATION	the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.
COUNCIL OF TRENT	the ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that met at Trent intermittently from 1545 to 1563, and defined church doctrine and condemned the Reformation.
VANITAS	the traditional Christian view being that earthly goods and pursuits are transient and worthless.
TENEBRISM	a style of painting especially which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source.
CHIAROSCURO	a 16th century woodcut technique involving the use of several blocks to print different tones of the same color
OBELISK	a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
SALOMONIC COLUM	helical column, characterized by a spiraling twisting shaft like a corkscrew.
TRANSPARENTE	is a Baroque altarpiece in the ambulatory of the Cathedral of Toledo.

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