Baroque style tshwm sim los ntawm Renaissance duab puab, uas, kos raws li classical Greek thiab Roman sculpture, tau zoo tagnrho rau tib neeg daim ntawv. Qhov no tau hloov kho los ntawm Mannerism, thaum cov neeg ua yeeb yam tau siv zog los muab lawv cov haujlwm ib qho tshwj xeeb thiab tus kheej style. Mannerism qhia txog lub tswv yim ntawm sculptures featuring muaj zog contrasts; hluas thiab hnub nyoog, kev zoo nkauj thiab ugliness, txiv neej thiab poj niam. Mannerism kuj qhia txog cov duab serpentina, uas tau los ua tus yam ntxwv tseem ceeb ntawm Baroque duab puab. Qhov no yog qhov kev npaj ntawm cov duab los yog pawg ntawm cov duab nyob rau hauv ib tug ascending kauv, uas muab lightness thiab txav mus rau qhov chaw ua hauj lwm.[6]

Michelangelo tau qhia txog daim duab serpentine hauv The Dying Slave (1513–1516) thiab Genius Victorious (1520–1525), tab sis cov haujlwm no tau pom los ntawm ib qho kev pom. Nyob rau thaum xaus ntawm lub xyoo pua 16th ua hauj lwm ntawm Italian sculptor Giambologna, Lub Rape ntawm Sabine poj niam (1581-1583). tau nthuav tawm lub ntsiab lus tshiab; Txoj hauj lwm no tau tsim los pom tsis yog los ntawm ib qho, tab sis los ntawm ntau lub ntsiab lus ntawm kev pom, thiab hloov pauv raws li qhov kev xav, Qhov no tau dhau los ua ib qho tseem ceeb hauv Baroque duab puab. Kev ua haujlwm ntawm Giambologna muaj kev cuam tshuam rau cov tswv ntawm Baroque era, tshwj xeeb yog Bernini.[6]

Lwm qhov tseem ceeb cuam tshuam rau Baroque style yog lub Koom Txoos Catholic, uas tab tom nrhiav kev kos duab riam phom hauv kev sib ntaus sib tua tawm tsam Protestantism. Pawg Sab Laj ntawm Trent (1545–1563) tau muab lub hwj chim loj dua rau Pope los coj kev tsim kev kos duab, thiab tau hais tawm qhov tsis txaus siab ntawm cov lus qhuab qhia ntawm tib neeg, uas yog lub hauv paus rau kev kos duab thaum lub sij hawm Renaissance.[7] Thaum lub sij hawm pontificate ntawm Paul V (1605-1621) lub tsev teev ntuj pib tsim artistic cov lus qhuab qhia los tawm tsam lub Reformation, thiab commissioned tshiab artists coj lawv tawm.