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Baroque Traditions, Contemporary Visions

The grand, ornate and flamboyant Baroque style – influencing art, music, literature and architecture – flourished in the 1600s and early 1700s. Discover the historical inspirations behind contemporary Baroque works featured in 'Worlds within Worlds' (2026).

 

The Earth is an Hourglass
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The Baroque in 'The Earth is an hourglass'

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The Baroque in 'Seven character quatrain'

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WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

The Baroque in 'Everything will fall into ruin'

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In this towering, two-metre-tall oil painting, Tintoretto depicts Christ rising from the grave, illuminated by a rising sun. Christ carries a red-and-white banner in his left hand, while his right hand delivers a gesture of blessing or benediction to the awakening soldier positioned below. In its original church setting – likely as an altarpiece placed high above churchgoers – the foreshortened figure of Christ would have delivered an even more dramatic sense of the miracle of life defeating death.
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Baroque traditions: Tintoretto

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In this still from a portrait-oriented video work, a Sāmoan woman dressed in late nineteenth-century, western-style clothing is captured mid-dance. Illuminated against a dark background, a transparent motion trail of the figure's previous movements is also visible.
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The Baroque in 'Siva in Motion'

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This photograph captures a view of a salon-style installation of photographs, with very small works hung at the far edges and the largest works hung in the middle. In the foreground, columns made of tape from inside VHS cassettes appear both monumental and transparent. Multiple artists are represented; however, each photograph included has dramatic, Baroque elements in its composition.
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The Baroque in 'Columns'

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The Baroque in 'The stags'

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The Baroque in 'Meme for a Slave'

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The Baroque in 'Mirror studies'

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This photograph captures a view of a salon-style installation of photographs, with very small works hung at the far edges and the largest works hung in the middle. Multiple artists are represented; however, each photograph included has dramatic, Baroque elements in its composition.
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Baroque symbolism, drama and divinity

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The Earth is an Hourglass
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Baroque Traditions, Contemporary Visions

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In this towering, two-metre-tall oil painting, Tintoretto depicts Christ rising from the grave, illuminated by a rising sun. Christ carries a red-and-white banner in his left hand, while his right hand delivers a gesture of blessing or benediction to the awakening soldier positioned below. In its original church setting – likely as an altarpiece placed high above churchgoers – the foreshortened figure of Christ would have delivered an even more dramatic sense of the miracle of life defeating death.
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Introducing 'Worlds within Worlds'

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WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

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The Earth is an Hourglass
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Baroque Traditions, Contemporary Visions

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In this towering, two-metre-tall oil painting, Tintoretto depicts Christ rising from the grave, illuminated by a rising sun. Christ carries a red-and-white banner in his left hand, while his right hand delivers a gesture of blessing or benediction to the awakening soldier positioned below. In its original church setting – likely as an altarpiece placed high above churchgoers – the foreshortened figure of Christ would have delivered an even more dramatic sense of the miracle of life defeating death.
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Introducing 'Worlds within Worlds'

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This photograph captures a view of a salon-style installation of photographs, with very small works hung at the far edges and the largest works hung in the middle. Multiple artists are represented; however, each photograph included has dramatic, Baroque elements in its composition.
WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

Baroque symbolism, drama and divinity

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Žilvinas Kempinas's monumental Columns (detail) 2006, with a view of a salon hang including works by Gavin Hipkins, Anne Noble, Bill Henson, Justine Cooper, Imogen Cunningham, Anne Ferran and Laurence Aberhart installed for ‘Worlds within Worlds’, QAG, March 2026 / © The artists / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

'Worlds within Worlds'

Mar 2026 - Aug 2026