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2 giorni fa · 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.
- List of Baroque residences
This is a list of Baroque palaces and residences built in...
- List of Baroque residences
5 giorni fa · Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, and made them higher, grander, more decorated, and more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura , or trompe-l'œil painting combined with sculpture: the eye is drawn upward, giving the illusion ...
6 mag 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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- The term Baroque probably derived from the Italian word barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schemati...
- The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex and even contradictory. Currents of naturalism and Classicism, for example,...
- 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...
- Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio were the two Italian painters who helped usher in the Baroque and whose styles represent, respectively, the classi...
- The Rococo style originated in Paris about 1700 and was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austri...
14 mag 2024 · Italian Baroque architecture, a style known for its dramatic use of forms, bold ornamentation, and stark contrasts, found one of its most profound expressions in the architectural and artistic innovations of St. Peter's Basilica.
12 mag 2024 · Pietro da Cortona (born Nov. 1, 1596, Cortona, Tuscany [Italy]—died May 16, 1669, Rome, Papal States) was an Italian architect, painter, and decorator, an outstanding exponent of Baroque style. Pietro studied in Rome from about 1612 under the minor Florentine painters Andrea Commodi and Baccio Ciarpi and was influenced by antique ...
18 mag 2024 · Lecce flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and has many examples of Apulian Baroque architecture; many of its buildings are built of the characteristic pietra leccese, a light yellow, easily worked limestone. The cathedral, the Basilica of Santa Croce, and the Church of SS. Niccolo e Cataldo are notable, all rebuilt in the ...
