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5 days ago · The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) or Baroquism [1] is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [2] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past ...
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Apr 19, 2024 · Baroque art and architecture, the visual arts and construction in Western art that roughly coincide with the 17th century. Though stylistically complex, even contradictory, the qualities frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, vitality, movement, tension, and emotional exuberance.
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- Where does the term Baroque come from?The term Baroque probably derived from the Italian word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schemati...
- What are the characteristics of Baroque art and architecture?The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex and even contradictory. Currents of naturalism and Classicism, for example,...
- How did Baroque art and architecture come about?Three broad tendencies had an impact on Baroque art, the first of which was the Counter-Reformation. Contending with the spread of the Protestant R...
- Which artists are associated with the Baroque style?Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio were the two Italian painters who helped usher in the Baroque and whose styles represent, respectively, the classi...
- How did the Rococo style differ from the Baroque?The Rococo style originated in Paris about 1700 and was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austri...
Apr 11, 2024 · 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 the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation .
Apr 16, 2024 · St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, commissioned by Ivan IV to celebrate Russian military victories, is renowned for its unique architectural style, featuring nine chapels with candy-colored, onion-shaped domes. It was named after Basil the Blessed, a local prophet known for being "a fool for Christ," and the cathedral itself is dedicated to the ...
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1 day ago · The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age. [1] Written histories of European art often begin with the Aegean ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Francesco Borromini (born September 25, 1599, Bissone, Duchy of Lombardy [Italy]—died August 2, 1667, Rome) was an Italian architect who was a chief formulator of Baroque architectural style. Borromini (he changed his name from Castelli about 1627) secured a reputation throughout Europe with his striking design for a small church, San Carlo ...
Apr 20, 2024 · By Blaine Brownell. Museo del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico, designed by Toyo Ito & Associates. Contemporary architects and artists have found an unlikely form of inspiration: the Baroque. The sophistication of today's digital modeling and fabrication capabilities has enabled a significant increase in formal complexity—a hallmark of the Baroque style.
