How can baroque be ugly? We remember the wonderful music of Vivaldi and Bach. Is she ugly? What about Rastrelli's palaces? What kind of ugliness can be found in them? What about Bernini's sculptures? What about the paintings of Caravaggio, the greatest Italian artist of the Baroque era? Paintings by Rubens, which are considered among the most expensive in the history of painting? Are they ugly? It wasn't always like this. Less than a hundred years ago, the very concept of “Baroque” was not even a style, but just a disparaging assessment and an indicator of bad taste - a negative nickname for “incomprehensible” art. About how the ugly became beautiful, how the Baroque style developed and what influence it had on the world art, and will be told by a new book by Evgeny Viktorovich Zharinov, which opens a series of detailed studies of different eras and styles.