This class period we had the great opportunity to visit the Colby College Museum of Art, specifically the Landay room in the museum. Professor Plesch asked for us to choose one work from the Baroque time period to discuss in our midterm exam. As I studied the works, we were able to use the magnifying glasses to have the opportunity to look closely at the intricate details, lines, and brushstrokes of the works. We studied multiple works I found incredibly interesting and narrowed my choices for a work to use to two works of Jacques Courtois Bourguignon, a work of Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot (A Feast in the Country), Gaspard Dughet’s Wooded Landscape, and finally a work of Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck’s: Portrait of a Gentleman. I ultimately found myself coming back to Jacques Courtois Bourguignon’s Battle Scene (With Castle in Background), finding multiple comparisons and contrasts to other Baroque works and its ability to exemplify important elements of Baroque art. The work distances itself from the harmony and idealized beauty of Mannerism, representing a turn to naturalism, and showing a turbulent subject matter that reflected the conflict between Catholicism and the Protestant Reformation.