Piety and Drama in Baroque Art at The Pontiac Creative Arts Center June 25 6:00 p.m.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a religious change rocked Europe and altered the way people engaged with art. From incidents of aggressive destruction of images in the north and an explosion of theatricality in the south to the appearance of printed images across the continent, the pious struggled to win souls and outline religious belief through brand new approaches to visual culture.
Anna Stein is an adjunct instructor of Art History at the Auburn Hills campus of Oakland Community College and a Research Associate at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has a M.A. from the Pennsylvania State University in Art History, with specializations in nineteenth-century European painting and Baroque art and architecture. She has a B.A. from Michigan State University in Art History with a specialization in Museum Studies.