the Baroque body

Baroque art rebelled against the traditional Mannerist style of Renaissance art. Renaissance art was more orderly, restrained, and symmetrically balanced. Baroque artists made their work richer and more grandiose. For example, a Renaissance artist may have used rectangles to make an artwork balanced and beautiful. But a baroque artist would have replaced the rectangles with curved areas for a more dramatic effect. Baroque artists strived to make their work more emotional, appealing to all the senses with variety and movement. Baroque art also contrasted values and depicted bold ornamentation.
This highly ornamented idea is now transported to skin ornamental art of tattoos. We can admired or even horrify with the tattoo addiction some people have, but in a way is the same idea of emotion, appealing to senses, because this people want to arose other people with their personal canvas (their skin). The problem with skin is that we have a limited quantity of it so, people addicted to tattooing, with a crescent collection of tattoos began to look as a life baroque piece of art.