The catholic church did not like this at all and knew they needed to change. So the Catholic Church took an internal reform and reorganizing, this was called the Catholic Reformation. Around the 1540s, the catholic church tried their best to get protestants to convert back to Catholicism. They called this the counter-reformation. The catholic reformers inspired many artistic people. The places that were based on these types of paintings were all over Spain and Italy. The style of art in Venice and Rome had some huge changes in the art. They started a style of art called mannerism. Mannerism is a style marked by a spatial complexity, artificiality, and affection. These paintings brought self-conscious spirituality and profound insecurities of an age of religious wars and political rivalry.
The Italian baroque started in the seventeenth century and dominated the style of production between 1650 through 1750. The baroque artists in Italy made art to express the religious subject matter that they wanted to share to others. Through their art, they were able to give the sense of participation in major events in the Christian story and in the ritual of worships. The Italian baroque were famous for their architecture, sculpture, and paintings. Some of the most famous painters at this time was Caravaggio, Gentileschi, and