Baroque in the Xvii-xviii Century

By the XVIII century, three challenging styles were present, and the hole between them was characterized by superior polemic. The conservative tendency of the XVII century sustained and became more and more theoretical and strict under the influence of Accademia di S. Luca, which was the long-inactive academy of artists in Rome that achieved international authority in the XVIII century. The major antagonism was the ornamental and refined style that was well-known as the Rococo style, as its original connections with French pebble, rocaille and shell work were rather strong. In Italian Rococo was resultant generally from the past decorative Borromini’s vocabulary, who, sarcastically, exercised little pressure on it in his own way. The 3rd style that was more or less exclusively restricted to the provinces, and that regularly deceived a provincial lack of erudition may be named the Ultra-Baroque style due to its inclination toward dramatic self-representation.