As a stark contrast to my week of fishing on the Dee with the children in Scotland at Easter I enjoyed a lovely day out with girlfriends at the V&A Baroque exhibition the other day. The magnificence and splendour of Baroque, one of the most opulent styles of the 17th and 18th centuries, is a true indulgence in extravagance. The exhibition reflects the complexity and grandeur of the Baroque style, from the Rome of Borromini and Bernini to the magnificence of Louis XIV's Versailles and the lavishness of Baroque theatre and performance. On display are religious paintings by Rubens and Tiepolo while silver furniture, portraits, sculpture, a regal bed and court tapestries conjure up the rooms of a Baroque palace. The exhibition is the first to examine all the elements of the Baroque style and to show how, as European power spread, Baroque style reached other parts of the world, captured in objects such as a gilded Mexican altarpiece. I particularly loved a Swedish (well designed by a French silversmith) Silver chandelier and the painting of the Carousel of Christina of Sweden's celebration of her conversion to Catholicism.
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