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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Isabel of Bourbon era Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque period
St. Peter's Church, Vienna architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné movement Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque literature
Pieter Nason artisticStyle Baroque
Amsterdam school era Baroque
subject surface form: Amsterdam school (17th-century Dutch painters)
this entity surface form: Baroque period
New Testament scenes artHistoricalPeriod Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art
Portici (arcades) of Piazza Castello architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Portici of Piazza Castello
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Chiesa di San Lorenzo architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Cathedral Church of Saint Philip architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
van Baburen movement Baroque
subject surface form: Dirck van Baburen
The Lute Player movement Baroque
subject surface form: The Lute Player (Dirck van Baburen)
The Entombment of Christ movement Baroque
subject surface form: The Entombment of Christ (Dirck van Baburen)
The Concert movement Baroque
subject surface form: The Concert (Dirck van Baburen)
The Card Players movement Baroque
subject surface form: The Card Players (Dirck van Baburen)
Palazzo Chiablese architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Rembrandt school period Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque period
Portrait of Bossuet movement Baroque
Main Square of Linz hasEraOfDevelopment Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque period
Synagogue of Ancona architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Palazzo della Pilotta architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Palace of Moncalieri architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Rococo precededBy Baroque
Convent of Maltezas architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Old Cathedral architecturalStyle Baroque
subject surface form: Old Cathedral (Linz)
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Pöstlingberg Church architecturalStyle Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque architecture
Samson and the lion commonIn Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art
Rachel Ruysch movement Baroque
Utrecht still-life school artHistoricalContext Baroque
this entity surface form: Baroque art