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In the arts, Baroque is both a period and the style that dominated it. The Baroque style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and even reversing thematic material.
The popularity and success of the "Baroque" was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement. The secular aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the "Baroque" cultural movement as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns.
The word baroque derives from the ancient Portuguese noun "barroco" which is a pearl that is not round but of unpredictable and elaborate shape. Hence, in informal usage, the word baroque can simply mean that something is "elaborate," with many details, without reference to the Baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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The Adolphus (****) en diverses dates per â¬107.04 Deluxe Room. No inclou esmorzar. A baroque masterpiece opened in .. http://bit.ly/14sNHM
dallas_hotels (Dallas hotels) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:39:23 -0000
The Adolphus (****) en diverses dates per €107.04 Deluxe Room. No inclou esmorzar. A baroque masterpiece opened in .. http://bit.ly/14sNHM
The Adolphus (****) en diverses dates per â¬107.04 Deluxe Room. No inclou esmorzar. A baroque masterpiece opened in .. http://bit.ly/18ObsM
dallas_hotels (Dallas hotels) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:39:22 -0000
The Adolphus (****) en diverses dates per €107.04 Deluxe Room. No inclou esmorzar. A baroque masterpiece opened in .. http://bit.ly/18ObsM
Too much staring at a screen for today - off to curl up with the Baroque Cycle. Or possibly Temeraire, haven't decided yet.
Eithin (Sam Kelly) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:28:25 -0000
Too much staring at a screen for today - off to curl up with the Baroque Cycle. Or possibly Temeraire, haven't decided yet.
@MinLii It was great finally meeting you. =) @daviding - Sorry we got carried away in the discussion. I thought you were still in Baroque.=)
sachac (Sacha Chua) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:27 -0000
@MinLii It was great finally meeting you. =) @daviding - Sorry we got carried away in the discussion. I thought you were still in Baroque.=)
@yooklyde Cryptonomicon was petty good. Only sort of slow in places. 1 book into Baroque, Was a kinda hard to get into at first.
torinaga (M. Van Amburg) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:49:49 -0000
@yooklyde Cryptonomicon was petty good. Only sort of slow in places. 1 book into Baroque, Was a kinda hard to get into at first.
RT @DJADUB double header tonite!! Baroque @ liberties w/ NEW AGE and then ADUB and CSHARP @ Darlings BYO dance party 2-5AM... sleep when...
suz925 (Suz Paulinski) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:51 -0000
RT @DJADUB double header tonite!! Baroque @ liberties w/ NEW AGE and then ADUB and CSHARP @ Darlings BYO dance party 2-5AM... sleep when...
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