Baroque era is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s.
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Baroque era is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s.
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New motifs introduced by Baroque era are: the cartouche, trophies and weapons, baskets of fruit or flowers, and others, made in marquetry, stucco, or carved.
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Similarly, Lutheran Baroque art developed as a confessional marker of identity, in response to the Great Iconoclasm of Calvinists.
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Baroque era churches were designed with a large central space, where the worshippers could be close to the altar, with a dome or cupola high overhead, allowing light to illuminate the church below.
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The dome was one of the central symbolic features of Baroque era architecture illustrating the union between the heavens and the earth.
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Interiors of Baroque era churches became more and more ornate in the High Baroque era, and focused around the altar, usually placed under the dome.
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The most celebrated baroque decorative works of the High Baroque era are the Chair of Saint Peter and the Baldachino of St Peter, both by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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The Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela was modernized with a series of Baroque era additions beginning at the end of the 17th century, starting with a highly ornate bell tower, then flanked by two even taller and more ornate towers, called the Obradorio, added between 1738 and 1750 by Fernando de Casas Novoa.
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Architects of the Spanish Baroque era had an effect far beyond Spain; their work was highly influential in the churches built in the Spanish colonies in Latin America and the Philippines.
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The Church built by the Jesuits for a college in Tepotzotlan, with its ornate Baroque era facade and tower, is a good example.
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Some were in Rococo style, a distinct, more flamboyant and asymmetric style which emerged from the Baroque era, then replaced it in Central Europe in the first half of the 18th century, until it was replaced in turn by classicism.
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In Poland, the Italian-inspired Polish Baroque era lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century and emphasised richness of detail and colour.
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However, the most celebrated work of Polish Baroque era is the Fara Church in Poznan, with details by Pompeo Ferrari.
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Unlike Italian buildings, French Baroque era buildings have no broken pediments or curvilinear facades.
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Baroque era decided, on his return to Russia, to construct similar monuments in St Petersburg, which became the new capital of Russia in 1712.
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Early major monuments in the Petrine Baroque era include the Peter and Paul Cathedral and Menshikov Palace.
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In Moscow, Naryshkin Baroque era became widespread, especially in the architecture of Eastern Orthodox churches in the late 17th century.
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One important domain of Baroque painting was Quadratura, or paintings in trompe-l'œil, which literally "fooled the eye".
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Baroque era designed tapestries, carpets and theatre decoration as well as painting.
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Baroque era's work was extremely popular with Madame Pompadour, the Mistress of King Louis XV.
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Baroque era's paintings featured mythological romantic, and mildly erotic themes.
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The painting of this Baroque era has a more sentimental tone, with sweet and softer shapes.
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Baroque era sculpture was inspired by ancient Roman statuary, particularly by the famous first century CE statue of Laocoon, which was unearthed in 1506 and put on display in the gallery of the Vatican.
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Baroque era advised the students to work from classical models, rather than from nature.
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Term Baroque era is used to designate the style of music composed during a period that overlaps with that of Baroque era art.
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The Hispanic Baroque era theatre aimed for a public content with an ideal reality that manifested fundamental three sentiments: Catholic religion, monarchist and national pride and honour originating from the chivalric, knightly world.
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Baroque era established a new dramatic formula that broke the three Aristotle unities of the Italian school of poetry and a fourth unity of Aristotle which is about style, mixing of tragic and comic elements showing different types of verses and stanzas upon what is represented.
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Baroque era was in charge of styling the Gardens of Buen Retiro, of Zarzuela, and of Aranjuez and the construction of the theatrical building of Coliseo del Buen Retiro.
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Baroque era's touring company was perhaps the most significant and important of the 17th century.
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Purpose of the baroque garden was to illustrate the power of man over nature, and the glory of its builder, Baroque era gardens were laid out in geometric patterns, like the rooms of a house.
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Baroque era gardens required enormous numbers of gardeners, continual trimming, and abundant water.
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Baroque era was accompanied by several artists, including the engraver Nicolas Cochin and the architect Soufflot.
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Baroque era did not make the distinctions between Mannerism and Baroque that modern writers do, and he ignored the later phase, the academic Baroque that lasted into the 18th century.
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