Baroque Era
During the Baroque period, the British common wealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell brought increased religious toleration, trade, and military victories to England. Although he began as an obscure and inexperienced Member of Parliament in 1640, he quickly became one of the most powerful men in Parliament and played a decisive role in the revolution in 1648, which saw the trial and execution of the King and the abolition of monarchy and the House of Lords. As head of the army, Cromwell intervened several times to support or removes the republican regimes of the early 1650s. Eventually, he became head of state as Lord Protector, although he held that office under a written constitution that ensured that he would share political power with parliaments and a council.
As a result of Cromwell’s military intelligence, artwork became more focus on barbaric war scenes. Like the paintings by Ernest Crofts, like Cromwell at the Storming of Basing House and......
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