The Baroque can be characterized as
a) seventeenth-century theatrical compositions rendered in very high contrast.
b) highly didactic Christian art.
c) developing in the fifteenth century and promoting the ideas and aesthetics of Classical antiquity.
d) developing in eighteenth-century France and promoting civic responsibility and sacrifice.
Answer: a
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