In the shadow of the Renaissance came the Baroque period, with turbulent religion and dark paintings. As Martin Luther fights the corrupt Church, artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger expressed increasing secularity in art. Suddenly you have genre paintings- people enveloped in an every day landscape, seemingly ignorant of the artists presence. And then there was the birth of tenebrism and paintings grew to have a darker, more emotional tone. Here you see Gentileshi's Judith Slaying Holofernes, a brutal scene of a woman in the action of tearing off a man's head, blood spraying, and Rembrandt's Captain Frans Banning Cocque Mustering His Company, a busy scene of a group of men, each doing their own thing. This is also where quadratura, or making ceiling art in such a way that it seems as though the building grows into the heavens, comes into play, a beautiful example being Pozzo's Triumph of St. Ignatius of Loyola. As wonderful and innovative as the Renaissance was, after studying the Baroque period I have developed a taste for tenebrism and the harsh reality of the Baroque artists.