Its essential characteristic is an emphasis on unity, a balance among diverse parts. Works in all media were produced on a grand scale. Illusionism increased an unequaled sense of drama, energy, and mobility of form. Baroque buildings, e.g., versailles13428, Christopher wren14014's churches, compelled order upon overwhelming multiple forms. Throughout Europe undulating facades and complex ground plans abounded.
Fountains burst forth as joyous geysers and cascades.
Deep perspective10062 was developed in painting, e.g., by ruisdael11205 and de hooch6025. Chiaroscuro intensified the works of caravaggio2289, zurbar n14212, Georges de la tour7253, and rembrandt10882. Sculptors used multiple materials for a single work, e.g., bernini1395's Ecstasy of St. Theresa, which also exemplifies the baroque fascination with intense emotional states. Landscape subjects were ennobled by the carracci2341, Ruisdael, hobbema5939, Rembrandt, Salvator rosa11127 and Claude Lorrain, and genre4992 and still life12346 by Vermeer, steen12294, de Hooch, and the le nains7358. Painters such as murillo8873 used lighter colors and softer forms, and the baroque style gradually gave way to the rococo11064.