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Encyclopedia > Baroque (disambiguation)

Baroque may refer to:

in popular culture: Block quote For other uses, see Baroque (disambiguation). ... Baroque art is the painting and sculpture associated with the Baroque cultural movement, a movement often identified with Absolutism and the Counter Reformation; the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states, however, undercuts this linking. ... Baroque Tahitian pearls mounted with diamonds and platinum as earrings Baroque pearls are simply pearls that have an irregular shape. ...

Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. ... Baroque Works is a fictional underground criminal organization in the anime and manga series, One Piece. ... Baroque Works Saga is the second saga in the anime and manga series One Piece. ... Earthquake Baroque is a style of architecture found in places, such at the Philippines and Guatemala, which suffered earthquakes during the 17th century and 18th century and where large public buildings, such as churches were rebuilt in a Baroque style. ... The following fictional characters appear in Neal Stephensons Baroque Cycle. ... New Trinity Baroque is an American orchestra based in Atlanta. ... The Baroque Cycle, a series of books written by Neal Stephenson, appeared in print in 2003 and 2004. ... The Baroque Works in the anime and Manga series One Piece have not displayed all Number agents or their female partners. ...

See also

visual arts (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ... The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western Europe and its first colonies, between the Middle Ages and modern society. ... The foyer of the Paris Opera, built by Charles Garnier Neo-baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper. ... Post-Baroque in musicology applying to performance and compositional practice in the period after the Baroque, when changes in the manner of playing would alter the implications of notation and playing, including improvisation and ornamentation. ...

Baroque architecture The complex and ambitious Italian tradition of illusionistic painting applied the Renaissance confidence in handling perspective to projects for ceilings and overcame the problems of applying linear perspective to the concave surfaces of domes in order to dissolve the architecture and create illusions of limitless space. ... The Contemporary Baroque Art or Contemporary Art-Baroque (Italian: Arte barocca contemporanea) movement began at the end of the 20th century, with the painter and dramatist Gian Andrea Scarello (also known as GAS). This artistic movement is indicated by a pictorial style that uses form, figure, and traditional topics from... Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. ...

Baroque music: The Baroque Churches of the Philippines is the official designation to a collection of four Spanish-era churches in the Philippines, upon its inscription to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993. ... It has been suggested that Wrenaissance be merged into this article or section. ... Château de Maisons near Paris: François Mansart, 1642. ... Kikin Hall (1714), an example of private residence dating from Peter Is reign. ...

Baroque period by region: This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Baroque (バロック) was a Japanese Visual Kei band that formed in 2001 and was signed to Free Will and distributed by Sony Music. ... The guitar player (c. ... Baroque Hoedown was created by electronic music artists Perrey and Kingsley. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... The Baroque Orchestra is the earliest example of a true orchestra which came into existence in the mid-late 1600s. ... Baroque pop as a style originated in the mid 1960s as the flipside of sunshine pop. ... Baroque Records is a long running electronic music label created by Mick Parks and Mick Wilson of Tilt. ... Egger copy of a natural trumpet by Johann Leonhard EHE II, Nuremberg 1746. ... A Baroque violin is, in common usage, any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period. ... The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. ... Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra is a San Francisco-based orchestra dedicated to historically-informed performance of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic music on original instruments. ...



 

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