In today’s class, we finished talking about the baroque art style in Flanders. We talked about many artists such as Jan van Goyen, Pieter Saenredam, William Heda, and Jan Vermeer. After wrapping up the style in Flanders we moved to France. We started with Louis the Fourteenth and his absolutism ideology. We talked about French artists such as Pierre Patel who created a visual of the Palace of Versailles in 1668. We also discussed the ways we found the Baroque style in other art genres like history, landscape, still-life, and genre painting. After emphasizing the artists and their many artworks we then talked about the Caravaggio and the Baroque influence on the French architecture and artists style. After elaborating on how artists used natural lighting in many varieties like Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain in their landscape portraits.