In the Baroque period, ecclesiastical painting bloomed in Italy and Spain, but also in the Spanish Netherlands, whereas the fine arts in the Calvinist north had to look for tasks outside the church. While Rome and Paris developed architecturally into centers of Catholicism, a culture of religious music took shape in the Lutheran territories of the empire, which reached its pinnacle in Bach.

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Jan Rohls, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.