Baroque

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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 Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central European Baroque

Dutch Golden Age
surface form: Dutch Baroque

Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: English Baroque

Flemish Baroque
Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: French Baroque

Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: Italian Baroque

Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: Portuguese Baroque

Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 van Rijn
surface form: 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 Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: Churrigueresque

Colonial Baroque
Baroque self-linksurface differs
surface form: High Baroque

Late Baroque
Sicilian Baroque
hasTheme light and shadow contrast
movement and energy
religious drama
theatricality
hasTimePeriod 17th century
early 18th century
influencedBy Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church

Counter-Reformation
absolutist courts
precedes Classical period
Rococo architecture
surface form: Rococo
usesTechnique chiaroscuro
dramatic perspective
illusionistic ceiling painting
quadratura
tenebrism

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Western art includesStylePeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art
Basilica of Bom Jesus architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Church of St. Francis of Assisi architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Convent of St. Francis of Assisi architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Wentworth Woodhouse hasArchitecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Convent of St. Monica architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Church of St. Cajetan architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Alonso Cano movement Baroque
Francke Foundations architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Mérida Cathedral architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
St Michael Castle architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Jerez de los Caballeros hasBuildingStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Basilica of San Domenico, Bologna architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Basilica Minore del Santo Niño architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Église Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Łazienki Królewskie architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Walled City architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Astorga Cathedral architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Ayuntamiento de Astorga architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Église du Val-de-Grâce architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Pitigliano Synagogue architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Aria da capo timePeriod Baroque
Holy House of Loreto architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Ortygia historicalPeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque period
Banská Štiavnica (historic mining town) knownFor Baroque
subject surface form: Banská Štiavnica
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Banská Štiavnica (historic mining town) hasArchitectureStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Banská Štiavnica
Hawksmoor church architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Johann Michael Bach movement Baroque
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Riga (reconstruction concept involvement) architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Riga
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Plaza Mayor of Salamanca architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Toccata developedInPeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Orchestral suites (Bach) period Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
Clerecía Church architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Ehrenburg Palace architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
New Cathedral of Salamanca architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Johann Ambrosius movement Baroque
subject surface form: Johann Ambrosius Bach
Johann Jacob Bach (1682–1722) movement Baroque
subject surface form: Johann Jacob Bach
St Helen’s Basilica architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Ignatiuskirche (Linz) architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture