Highly emotional style in architecture, painting and sculpture, at height from c. 1630-80 in Rome but influential across Europe. Greatest exponents: sculptor and architect Bernini in Rome, and in northern Europe, Rubens, whose ceiling decorations done for Charles I (Stuart) in the Banqueting Hall in London are still in place. Rubens's great pupil Van Dyck in Britain 1632 to death in 1641 as Charles's court painter. British followers Dobson, Lely, Huysmans, Kneller, and painters of wall and ceiling decorations such as Verrio and Thornhill.