World Cultures Baroque Essay During the Baroque period, new ideas and views of society and of religion spurred up. To express these new ideas many ists used the ideas of past ists to further expand their own motives. " If I have seen further (than you and Desces), it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1676 The ists of the baroque period were using past ideals as a ladder to the prevalent and the gallant. Four pieces of that exceplified the usage of the great minds of the past were; The Rape of the Sabine Women by ....