Baroque period
Grandeur before Classicism
The Baroque period spans roughly 1600 to 1750 in European art, music, and architecture.
The style favors grandeur, drama, and ornate decoration—think Bernini's sculptures, Caravaggio's shadows, Bach's fugues.
The church's interior was pure Baroque period excess.
The term now suggests anything elaborately decorated or theatrically dramatic.
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
- church musicSongs for worship services
- Treaty of Westphalia1648 sovereignty-establishing peace
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- ornamentationDecorative additions to something
sculpture · Rococo · Dutch Golden Age · frescoes · Monteverdi · dramatic lighting · grandeur · 17th century · Thirty Years' War · ornate · absolutism · court dance · gilded · gilded frames · powdered wigs · Bach · counterpoint · flourish
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, Victorian era
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- Baroque ItalyVenice, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan
- Music Erasclassical era, Renaissance music, early music, Gregorian chant, big band era
- Austrian HistoryHabsburg, Habsburgs, Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Baroque periodMinimalism
Art stripped to essentials
Neoclassicism · modernism · Bauhaus · Classical period · International Style
Baroque periodrestraint
Control over impulses
understatement · simplicity · rationalism · classicism · Apollonian
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