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  • 1Baroque style — artistic style popular in the 17th century which was marked by elaborate ornamentation and efforts to create dramatic effects …

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  • 2Baroque — art redirects here. Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc. In the arts, the Baroque (pronounced /bə rɒk/) was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy.… …

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  • 3Style baroque — Baroque Pour les articles homonymes, voir Baroque (homonymie). L’Adoration de Pierre Paul Rubens : une structure dynamique de formes qui s’enroulent en spirale …

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  • 4Baroque —    Baroque is a style of art and architecture of the early seventeenth to mid eighteenth century, characterized by elaborate ornamentation, curved lines, and enormous size. The Oxford English Dictionary says the style pays tribute to Francesco… …

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  • 5Baroque sculpture — is the sculpture associated with the Baroque cultural movement, a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non absolutist and Protestant states.CourseIn Baroque sculpture, groups of figures assumed …

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  • 6baroque — [bə rōk′] adj. [Fr, orig., irregular < Port barroco, imperfect pearl] 1. [often B ] a) of, characteristic of, or like a style of art and architecture characterized by much ornamentation and curved rather than straight lines b) of,… …

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  • 7Baroque architecture — Façade of the Church of the Gesù, the first truly baroque façade.[1] Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance… …

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  • 8Baroque music — Private baroque theatre in Český Krumlov …

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  • 9Baroque — Pour les articles homonymes, voir baroque (homonymie). L’Adoration de Pierre Paul Rubens : une structure dynamique de formes q …

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  • 10Baroque period — (17th–18th century) Era in the arts that originated in Italy in the 17th century and flourished elsewhere well into the 18th century. It embraced painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, and music. The word, derived from a Portuguese… …

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