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baroque
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ba·roque
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relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists.
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highly ornate and extravagant in style:
the candles were positively baroque.
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the baroque style.
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the baroque period.
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Baroque around the clock. (Baroque opera)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/10/1993; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/11/2009; ; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/8/2007; 700+ words
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Baroque performance basics
Magazine article from: Strings; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
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BAROQUE: Baroque rocks.
Magazine article from: Design Week; 3/5/2009; 700+ words
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Baroque stars
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...says Tom Lubbock Its one of those words baroque. Its like surreal, an art label that...a bit complicated or overblown can be baroque. Its a perfectly handy everyday word...further, and things get well, a little baroque. The likeness to surreal breaks down...
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Baroque on a budget: Chicago Opera Theater gets creative by updating double bill
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...more obvious than in COT's approach to Baroque opera. For much of the 20th century...late 1960s led to revived interest in Baroque opera. Imaginative ensembles like William...and flair. Young singers began studying Baroque vocal style, and soon there was a large...
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The baroque: beads in a rosary or folds of time.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Fabrications; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
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All baroque and no bite.(Robert Harbison's latest book )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Building Design; 3/9/2001; ; 700+ words
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The borderless Baroque: a traveling exhibition examines the scope and sensibility of what its curators call "post-Latin American" art. (Import/Export).
Magazine article from: Art in America; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary art has been tending toward the baroque." (1) Whether used in reference to...installations by Damien Hirst, the term "baroque" has been in the air for quite a while...Vienna opened with an exhibition titled "Baroque Party." The term referred, in part...
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baroque
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Baroque
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
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Moscow Baroque
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
MOSCOW BAROQUE Moscow Baroque was the fashionable architectural style of the late seventeenth and...Muscovite painting, engraving, and literature. The term Moscow Baroque ( moskovskoe barokko ) came into use among Russian art historians...
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Neo-Baroque
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Neo-Baroque. Revival of Baroque architecture, or of elements drawn from such architecture, especially...Hall for the St Louis, MO, Purchase Exhibition (1904). Neo-Baroque is also known as the Imperial style. Bibliography A. S. Gray...
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English Baroque Soloists
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
English Baroque Soloists . Ensemble performing with period instruments founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1978 and often appearing in company with...
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