Between the dynamism and the diversity of the Rebirth and the preoccupation of balance and a universality of the classicism, the historians of art and culture of the XIX ^E and XX ^E centuries recognized an age baroque, marked by the religious fights of Protestantism and the catholic Counter-Reformation, the political upheavals due to the confrontation of great monarchies, a intellectual revolution in the design of the place and the role of the man in the Universe: from where an at the same time anxious vision and esthete of the life which reduces art to the artifice and makes world a vast theater.