The Baroque art is characterized by freedom of form and the profusion of ornaments. This long period of art history starts at the end of the 16^th century to the 19^th century.
In the Catalan region in two centuries, more than eight hundred altars in polychrome and gilded wood adorn hundreds of churches, several thousands of statues, paintings and sculptures are sheltered in these altarpieces.

The small Roussillon villages have real artistic treasures.

 

Among the sculptors who worked at that time, the name of Sunyer Josep is often call to mind notably with the altarpiece of Prades, which is dedicated to the first apostles, Peter.
He also performs other monumental altarpieces, those of Collioure and Font-Romeu, and the altar of the Rosary for Osséja andVinça.

 

Paint shops are not to be outdone, they multiply and we have also left the testimony of hundreds of paintings. Dynasty "Guerra" incorporates the Baroque movement and Hyacinthe Rigaud meanwhile becomes painter at the king’s court.