Baroque
Baroque is an art movement and style that originated in the late 16th century and flourished in the 17th and early 18th centuries. It began in Rome and spread to most of Europe. The Baroque style is characterized by exaggerated motion, clear detail, and drama in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.
In visual arts, Baroque artists used contrasts of light and shadow to achieve a sense of movement and emotion in their works. Paintings often depicted dramatic scenes, intense emotions, and grandeur. Notable painters from this period include Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt.
In architecture, Baroque structures often featured ornate detailing, curved shapes, and grand facades. Architects like Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini designed structures with a sense of drama and spectacle.
The Baroque style was, in part, a response to the Protestant Reformation. It was supported by the Catholic Church as a means to counteract the simplicity and austerity of Protestant art and architecture.
Overall, the Baroque movement aimed to evoke emotional responses from viewers and was a means of celebrating the grandeur and power of the Church and monarchies of the time.
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Baroque
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Style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century.
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