With the word Baroque, a world rises before us that is easier to visualize than to define conceptually. What the thoughtful generations of the Renaissance had established on the foundation of antiquity in a comfortable manner, passionate descendants now pile higher and higher into the immeasurable with unbridled drive. The leading creators, the architects, combine all the arts into intoxicating mass sounds. Sculptors and painters, figure drawers and ornamentists come together in their service to address the old and new tasks of the time—church and palace, spaces and groups, buildings and squares—in the spirit of powerful monumentality. The great battles of the visual arts are fought on the construction site, not in the studio or workshop. Ornamentation struggles to make itself heard in this giant orchestra.