Baroque

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artistic style cultural movement historical period

Baroque is a highly ornate and dramatic artistic style that flourished in 17th-century Europe, characterized by emotional intensity, rich detail, and dynamic compositions in art, architecture, and music.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artistic style → cultural movement → historical period →
appliesTo	architecture → literature → music → painting → sculpture → theatre → visual arts →
follows	Renaissance →
hasArchitecturalFeature	curved forms → dramatic facades → grand staircases → oval plans → rich ornamentation →
hasCharacteristic	dramatic → dynamic compositions → emotional intensity → ornate → rich detail →
hasGeographicScope	Europe →
hasLegacy	influenced Neoclassicism → influenced Rococo → influenced Romanticism →
hasMovement	Central European Baroque → Dutch Baroque → English Baroque → Flemish Baroque → French Baroque → Italian Baroque → Portuguese Baroque → Spanish Baroque →
hasMusicalForm	cantata → concerto grosso → fugue → opera → oratorio → suite →
hasNotableArchitect	Christopher Wren → Francesco Borromini → Guarino Guarini → Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach →
hasNotableArtist	Caravaggio → Diego Velázquez → Gian Lorenzo Bernini → Nicolas Poussin → Peter Paul Rubens → Rembrandt →
hasNotableCenter	Amsterdam → Antwerp → Lisbon → Madrid → Munich → Paris → Prague → Rome → Vienna →
hasNotableComposer	Antonio Vivaldi → Arcangelo Corelli → Claudio Monteverdi → George Frideric Handel → Johann Sebastian Bach →
hasPurpose	to evoke emotional response → to glorify church and monarchy →
hasSubstyle	Churrigueresque → Colonial Baroque → High Baroque → Late Baroque → Sicilian Baroque →
hasTheme	light and shadow contrast → movement and energy → religious drama → theatricality →
hasTimePeriod	17th century → early 18th century →
influencedBy	Catholic Church → Counter-Reformation → absolutist courts →
precedes	Classical period → Rococo →
usesTechnique	chiaroscuro → dramatic perspective → illusionistic ceiling painting → quadratura → tenebrism →

Referenced by (222)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anthony van Dyck → Antoine Coypel → Antoine Coysevox → Antoine Watteau → Arcangelo Corelli → Bartolomeo Rastrelli → Bathsheba at Her Bath → Caravaggio → Carel Fabritius → Carlo Maderno ("Baroque architecture") → Carlo Maderno ("Early Baroque") → Charles Coypel → Charles Le Brun → Charles de La Fosse → Claude Lorrain → Death of the Virgin → Dieterich Buxtehude → Ecstasy of Saint Teresa → Ferdinand Bol → Francesco Borromini → Frans van Mieris the Elder → Gerard ter Borch → Gian Lorenzo Bernini → Guarino Guarini ("Baroque architecture") → Hyacinthe Rigaud → Jacob van Campen ("Baroque architecture") → Jan Verkolje → Jean Jouvenet → Jean Raoux → Jean-Baptiste Lully ("French Baroque") → Jean-Baptiste Santerre → Jean-Baptiste van Loo → Johannes Vermeer → Johannes Vermeer → John Vanbrugh ("English Baroque") → Joost van den Vondel ("Baroque literature") → Jules Hardouin-Mansart ("Baroque architecture") → Karel Dujardin → Louis Laguerre → Michiel van Mierevelt → Niccolò Michetti → Nicholas Hawksmoor ("English Baroque") → Nicolas Poussin → Nicolas de Largillière → Noël Coypel → Peter Paul Rubens → Pierre Mignard → Pierre Puget → Pieter de Hooch → Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (c. 1633) → Rembrandt van Rijn → Samuel van Hoogstraten → Saskia as Flora → Self-Portrait with Two Circles → Supper at Emmaus → The Conversion of Saint Paul → The Crucifixion of Saint Peter → The Geographer → The Jewish Bride → The Little Street → The Rape of Proserpina → The Taking of Christ →	movement
Amalfi Cathedral ("Baroque architecture") → Belém Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Berlin City Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Biblioteca Joanina ("Portuguese Baroque") → Buonconsiglio Castle ("Baroque architecture") → Capilla del Rosario → Castel Sant'Angelo ("Baroque architecture") → Castle Howard ("Baroque architecture") → Cathedral of Quito ("Baroque architecture") → Christ Church, Oxford ("Baroque architecture") → Domenico Trezzini ("Baroque architecture") → Drottningholm Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Eve Fountain → Grand Palace (Peterhof) ("Baroque architecture") → Grand Place / Grote Markt ("Louis XIV style") → Great Court ("English Baroque") → Grimsthorpe Castle (remodelling) ("Baroque architecture") → Hermitage Museum → Hermitage Pavilion ("Baroque architecture") → Herrenhausen Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Het Loo Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Heythrop Park → Hofburg Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Intramuros ("Baroque architecture") → John Vanbrugh ("Baroque architecture") → Leineschloss → Michael Gate → Mission Concepción → Munich Residenz ("Baroque architecture") → Munttoren ("Dutch Baroque") → Nicholas Hawksmoor ("English Baroque") → Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg City ("Baroque architecture") → Nymphenburg Palace ("Baroque architecture") → Old Royal Naval College ("Baroque architecture") → Palacio de Gobierno del Perú ("Baroque architecture") → Palazzo Barberini → Palazzo Chigi ("Baroque architecture") → Palazzo Madama ("Baroque architecture") → Peterhof Palace → Piazza Navona → Round Tower ("Baroque architecture") → Samson Fountain → San Ildefonso College ("Baroque architecture") → Sant’Andrea al Quirinale ("Baroque architecture") → Sant’Andrea della Valle ("Baroque architecture") → Sicilian Baroque → Spišská Kapitula ("Baroque architecture") → St Michael, Cornhill (tower alterations) → St. Peter's Basilica ("Baroque architecture") → Torre Tagle Palace → Trevi Fountain → Universidad del Rosario (historic campus) ("Baroque architecture") → Valletta ("Baroque architecture") → historic town center of Landsberg am Lech ("Baroque architecture") →	architecturalStyle
Academic art ("Baroque art") → Ange-Jacques Gabriel ("Baroque architecture") → Bartolomeo Rastrelli ("Western European Baroque") → Beaux-Arts ("Baroque architecture") → Christian iconography ("Baroque art") → Colonial Baroque ("European Baroque") → Colonial Baroque ("Portuguese Baroque") → Elizabethan Baroque ("Italian Baroque") → Late Baroque ("High Baroque") → Rococo architecture ("French Baroque architecture") → Sicilian Baroque ("Roman Baroque") → Sicilian Baroque ("Spanish Baroque") → Spanish Colonial Revival ("Baroque architecture") →	influencedBy
Bytča ("Baroque architecture") → Charles Bridge ("Baroque (statuary)") → Görlitz → Innere Stadt ("Baroque architecture") → Meissen ("Baroque architecture") → Ruse ("Baroque architecture") → Shamian Island ("Baroque architecture") → Szentendre →	hasArchitecturalStyle
A View of Delft → De Staalmeesters → Het melkmeisje → The Goldfinch → The Goldfinch (1654) → The Music Lesson → The Night Watch →	artHistoricalPeriod
Francesco Borromini ("Baroque architecture") → Gian Lorenzo Bernini ("Roman Baroque sculpture") → Gian Lorenzo Bernini ("European Baroque architecture") → Mannerism ("Baroque art") → Michelangelo ("Baroque art") → Northern Renaissance ("Baroque art") → Spanish Golden Age ("Baroque literature") →	influenced
Baroque ("Italian Baroque") → Baroque ("Spanish Baroque") → Baroque ("French Baroque") → Baroque ("English Baroque") → Baroque ("Central European Baroque") → Baroque ("Portuguese Baroque") →	hasMovement
Arcangelo Corelli ("Baroque era") → Castle Howard ("Baroque period") → Pieter Lastman ("Baroque era") → Pope Urban VIII ("Baroque period") →	era
Francesco Borromini ("Roman Baroque") → John Vanbrugh ("Baroque architecture") → Niccolò Michetti ("Baroque architecture") → Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ("German Baroque") →	style
Late Baroque ("High Baroque") → Neoclassical architecture ("Baroque architecture") → Rococo architecture ("Baroque architecture") →	follows
George Frideric Handel ("Baroque era") → Late Baroque → Sicilian Baroque ("European Baroque") →	partOf
Portrait of a Man → Self-Portrait (1654) →	artisticMovement
Artemisia (painting by Ferdinand Bol) → Charles Le Brun ("French Baroque") →	artisticStyle
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window → The Lacemaker →	artStyle
French Renaissance ("French Baroque") → Mannerism →	followedBy
Arcangelo Corelli ("Baroque music") → Libéral Bruant ("Baroque architecture") →	genre
Flemish Baroque ("Northern Baroque") → High Renaissance ("Baroque art") →	hasInfluenceOn
Colonial Baroque ("Baroque architecture") → Colonial Baroque ("Baroque art") →	hasMainType
Portrait of Elisabeth Bas → Portrait of the Trip Family →	hasStyle
Baroque ("High Baroque") → Baroque ("Churrigueresque") →	hasSubstyle
1712 Stradivarius cello "Davidov" ("Baroque era") → Palazzo Madama ("Baroque era") →	historicalPeriod
Judgment of Paris ("Baroque art") → Lamentation of Christ ("Baroque art") →	popularIn
Barberini bees ("Baroque art") → Barberini bees ("Baroque architecture") →	usedIn
Turin →	architecturalStylePresent
Delft School →	artHistoricalContext
Infant John the Baptist →	artHistoricalPeriodOfFrequentDepiction
The Music Lesson ("Dutch Baroque") →	artHistoricalRegion
Jan van Goyen →	artisticPeriod
Cöthen court ("Baroque period") →	associatedEra
Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh (c. 1633) →	associatedPeriodOfArtHistory
Old Masters →	associatedWithPeriod
Counter-Reformation ("Baroque art") →	culturalImpact
Henriette Adelaide of Savoy ("Italian Baroque") →	culture
Sicilian Baroque ("Roman Baroque") →	distinctFrom
Caravaggisti →	hasArtHistoricalContext
Ponte Sant'Angelo →	hasArtisticMovement
San Ildefonso ("Baroque architecture") →	hasBuildingStyle
Flemish Baroque ("Italian Baroque") →	hasInfluenceFrom
Cello Suites →	historicalEra
Western canon of art ("Baroque art") →	includesPeriod
Baroque Revival ("Baroque architecture") →	inspiredBy
Flemish Baroque ("European Baroque") →	isPartOf
Houwelick ("Baroque literature") →	literaryMovement
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 →	musicalPeriod
Borghese ("Baroque era") →	periodOfProminence
Neoclassicism →	reactionAgainst
Celle Castle ("Baroque era") →	significantPeriod
Weimar court ("Baroque era") →	timePeriod
Duke of Guastalla ("Baroque period") →	usedDuring
F. Bol →	usedInArtMovement