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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Hauptwache building architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Picander movement Baroque
cour d’honneur (main courtyard) architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: cour d’honneur of Hôtel des Invalides
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepción architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
WTC associatedWithPeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
BWV 846–893 period Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
BWV 244 historicalPeriod Baroque
Historic Centre of Wrocław architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Domažlice hasBuildingStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Caracas Cathedral architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Kostanjevica Monastery architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Ricercar a 3 stylePeriod Baroque
Église du Dôme architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Johann Kuhnau movement Baroque
Courante musicalPeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
BuxWV timePeriodCovered Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
Imola Cathedral architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
historic center Pelourinho architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Pelourinho
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Igreja de São Francisco architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Igreja de São Francisco (Salvador)
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
BWV 1079 style Baroque
Rostock Town Hall architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Monte Berico Sanctuary architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Lomonosov, Russia hasArchitecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Joseph Effner movement Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Cantata IV historicalEra Baroque
post-Byzantine art influencedBy Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art
Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (Chioggia)
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Koper Cathedral (Cathedral of the Assumption) architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Koper Cathedral
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Piazza Barberini eraOfDevelopment Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque period
Rione Regola hasHeritage Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Rione Regola historicalPeriodOfFlourishing Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque era
Planet King associatedWith Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art
Filippo Barigioni movement Baroque
Church of San Tommaso da Villanova architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Sé Cathedral of Angra do Heroísmo architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Palácio dos Capitães-Generais architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Belgrade architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Nicodemus Tessin the Elder movement Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture