He had great appreciation of the Baroque, and wrote in a periodic style which reflected it, each phrase opening from the preceding, full of periphrasis and other flourishes of rhetoric, though flowing. His understanding of art stemmed largely from his religion, for he believed that it came as divine inspiration into special lives, the lives of the artists he so painstakingly recorded.
He had great appreciation of the Baroque and wrote in a periodic style which reflected it each phrase opening from the preceding full of periphrasis and other flourishes of rhetoric though flowing His understanding of art stemmed largely from his religion for he believed that it came as divine inspiration into special lives the lives of the artists he so painstakingly recorded