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2 days ago · The Baroque (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / bə-ROK, US: /-ˈ r oʊ k /- ROHK; French:) or Baroquism is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
1 day ago · This is a list of Baroque palaces and residences built in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express ...
4 days ago · Baroque embraced the off-balance, the close-up, and the capturing of a moment in time, all adding to a feeling of drama. Baroque art emerged at the start of the 17th century against the backdrop of the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic church wanted to reassert its power and used the arts to do so, commissioning large-scale, dramatic ...
3 days ago · Use of the oval dome spread quickly through Italy, Spain, France, and central Europe and would become characteristic of Counter-Reformation architecture in the Baroque style. Multi-story spires with truncated bulbous cupolas supporting smaller cupolas or crowns were used at the top of important sixteenth-century spires, beginning in the ...
5 days ago · Nicodemus Tessin, the Elder (born Dec. 7, 1615, Stralsund, Pomerania—died May 24, 1681, Stockholm) was the most eminent Swedish architect of his period, whose principal work is the Drottningholm palace.
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4 days ago · The Baroque era began roughly around 1600 with the composition of the first opera and lasted until the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750. The word “baroque” comes from Portuguese and means “irregular pearl.”. It was originally used to unflatteringly describe the art, architecture, and music produced in the 17th and 18th centuries.
4 days ago · Father Armando says that Baroque Art is a variant of Renaissance Art in Europe in the 16th century., “but at the end of this century and at the beginning of the 17th century, it began to be realized that this variant was no longer Renaissance Art, but rather Baroque Art. So due to the constant contact that existed between America and Spain ...
