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	BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE,
		The intensity and immediacy of baroque art and its individualism and detail—observed in such things as the convincing rendering of cloth and skin textures—make it one of the most compelling periods of Western art.
		The roots of baroque styles are found in the art of Italy, and especially in that of Rome in the late 16th century.
		Baroque painting in England was dominated by the presence of Rubens and van Dyck, who inspired an entire generation of portraitists.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=202283 (4214 words)

	Baroque art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		This turn toward a populist conception of the function of ecclesiastical art is seen by many art historians as driving the innovations of Caravaggio and the Carracci brothers, all of whom were working (and competing for commissions) in Rome around 1600.
		Baroque art was meant to evoke emotion and passion instead of the calm rationality that had been prized during the Renaissance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baroque_art (375 words)

	Baroque Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta
		Baroque Art and Architecture, the style dominating the art and architecture of Europe and certain European colonies in the Americas throughout the 1600s, and in some places, until 1750.
		A number of its characteristics continue in the art and architecture of the first half of the 18th century, although this period is generally termed rococo (see Rococo Style) and corresponds roughly with King Louis XV of France.
		Infinite space is often suggested in baroque paintings or sculptures; throughout the Renaissance and into the baroque period, painters sought a grander sense of space and truer depiction of perspective in their works.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572212/Baroque_Art_and_Architecture.html (681 words)

	Baroque - Baroque Art
		Baroque was born in Italy, and later adopted in France, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain.
		The word "baroque" was first applied to the art of period from the late 1500s to the late 1700s, by critics in the late nineteen century.
		Baroque period, era in the history of the Western arts roughly coinciding with the 17th century...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/c17th-mid19th/baroque.htm (687 words)

	Baroque Art : Baroque Paintings Galleries
		Though Baroque is superceded in many centers by the Rococo style, beginning in France in the late 1720s, especially for interiors, paintings and the decorative arts, Baroque architecture remained a viable style until the advent of Neoclassicism in the later 18th century.
		Baroque poses depend on contrapposto ("counterpoise"), the tension within the figures that move the planes of shoulders and hips in counterdirections.
		Art historians, often Protestant ones, have traditionally emphasized that the Baroque style evolved during a time in which the Roman Catholic Church had to react against the many revolutionary cultural movements that produced a new science and new forms of religion— Reformation.
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	Mark Harden's Artchive: "Baroque Art"
		Indeed, French Baroque is, by virtue of its use chiefly as political propaganda, characterized by a certain pomposity.
		Because of its base in the Catholic Counter-Reformation, Baroque was resisted in Protestant countries such as Holland and Britain, although Rembrandt in Holland and the painter John Thornhill and architect Vanbrugh in Britain are exceptions.
		Baroque Painting: Two Centuries of Masterpieces from the Era Preceding the Dawn of Modern Art, by Stefano Zuffi.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/baroque.html (768 words)

	The Theatrical Baroque: European Plays, Painting and Poetry, 1575-1725
		Baroque art unites the painting and the viewer in a single space, creating the illusion that the image is as real as its beholder and that the pictorial space extends infinitely.
		Art historian John Rupert Martin suggests that this sense of pictorial space is analogous to the broader, cosmologic concept of infinity that was gaining hold during the seventeenth century (Martin, 155).
		Baroque artists aimed to undo the classical unity of form and function, to unbalance the composition and achieve the impression of movement and space that the new age demanded.
	www.fathom.com /course/10701023/session2.html (1873 words)

	Travel Info Italy
		Baroque has been a revolution into arstic style in XVII century; it was a phenomenon that spreads itself in whole europe; Baroque is called by someone " pearl of irregular forms" and by others" pedentic and captious way of thinking".
		Baroque was: the will of breaking any classic rules in the field of art, audacious bursting, triumphant style, comprehensible worldwide.
		Baroque architecture is characteristic for the audacious of the inventions, for the ornamental's exuberance and for the unbridled research in scenografic effects.
	www.travel.it /archaeol/baroc/baring.htm (133 words)

	Baroque Art
		The baroque style is characterized by an emphasis on unity among the arts.
		In the late Baroque paintings of Antoine Coypel, the pervasive influence of Rubens is strongly apparent, especially in those for the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
		However, by the end of the 18th century the term "baroque", carrying associations with the grotesque, had entered the vocabulary of art criticism as a label for a style of 17th-century art that many later critics regularly dismissed as too bizarre or strange to merit serious study.
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Style10-Baroque.htm (1591 words)

	Aspect Art \| Baroque Art History
		Baroque art also introduced a new and stunning technique through which artists would create a dramatic and selective illumination of a figure out of the dark depths of the shadows.
		Despite the dominance the church had over the art of the time, many artists still returned to nature as inspiration and the nature scene with its landscapes and noble subjects was quite dominant during this period.
		Baroque art led the way into the Rococo Style of art, which retained many of the characteristics of the Baroque style.
	www.aspectart.com /movements/baroque.php (804 words)

	Historical replicas: Antique glass bottles, Baroque-art
		As a style of art, it was closely linked with reformation ideology, however, the Baroque art asserted itself in Central Europe only as late as in the second half of the 17th century, after the end of The Thirty Year War and victory of Catholicism, represented by the Hapsburg dynasty.
		That was the environment in which the Bohemian Baroque art was born, which made it its aim to stun with splendor and dazzle with exalted movement.
		New baroque art style was influenced by the invention of engraving, linked up with the tradition of the glyptiz (cutting or engraving in stone).
	www.bohemiacrystalchandeliers.com /Glass_Gifts/historical_replicas.htm (745 words)

	WebMuseum: Baroque
		Thirdly, the term `Baroque' (often written without the initial capital) is applied to art of any time or place that shows the qualities of vigorous movement and emotional intensity associated with Baroque art in its primary meaning.
		The supreme genius of Baroque art was Gianlorenzo Bernini, an artist of boundless energy and the utmost virtuosity, whose work--imbued with total spiritual conviction--dominates the period sometimes called the `High Baroque' (c.
		In the 17th century, Rome was the artistic capital of Europe, and the baroque style soon spread outwards from it, undergoing modification in each of the countries to which it migrated, as it encountered different tastes and outlooks and merged with local traditions.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/glo/baroque (731 words)

	Lecture on Baroque Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Formally, Baroque art applies to the era in art history that dominated most of arts of the seventeenth century-the enlightenment - or, what we call the Age of Newton.
		Baroque is often associated with dynamic and rich images of textured, flowing robes.
		A healthy middle and merchant class thrived there and there developed a strong demand for art - art created expressly for the home: interiors, still- life, landscapes and portraits - the artist was also free to do what he or she liked - paint first - sell later.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/lec/lecbaroque.htm (2727 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Baroque Art
		The Cultural movement of Baroque has often been identified with the that of Absolutism[?] and the Counter Reformation[?], though the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states undercuts this unity.
		This turn toward a populist conception of the function of ecclesiastical art is seen by many art historians as driving the innovations of Caravaggio and the Carracci[?] brothers, all of whom were working (and competing for commissions) in Rome around 1600.
		The most important sculptor of the Baroque period is undoubtedly Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), who approached Michelangelo in his omnicompetence.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Baroque_Art (701 words)

	baroque, in art and architecture. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		With technical brilliance, the baroque artist achieved a remarkable harmony wherein painting, sculpture, and architecture were brought together in new spatial relationships, both real and illusionary, often with spectacular visual effects.
		One of the great masterpieces of baroque sculpture, Giovanni Bernini’s St. Theresa from the Cornaro Chapel, for example, succumbs to an ecstatic vision on a dull-finished marble cloud in an alabaster and marble niche in which bronze rays descend from a hidden source of light.
		Many works of Baroque sculpture are set within elaborate architectural settings, and they often seem to be spilling out of their assigned niches or floating upward toward heaven.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/baroque-art.html (880 words)

	WebMuseum: Baroque
		Thirdly, the term `Baroque' (often written without the initial capital) is applied to art of any time or place that shows the qualities of vigorous movement and emotional intensity associated with Baroque art in its primary meaning.
		The supreme genius of Baroque art was Gianlorenzo Bernini, an artist of boundless energy and the utmost virtuosity, whose work--imbued with total spiritual conviction--dominates the period sometimes called the `High Baroque' (c.
		In the 17th century, Rome was the artistic capital of Europe, and the baroque style soon spread outwards from it, undergoing modification in each of the countries to which it migrated, as it encountered different tastes and outlooks and merged with local traditions.
	sunsite.unc.edu /wm/paint/glo/baroque (731 words)

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		Art and Architecture, the art and architecture of Europe and certain European colonies in the Americas in the 17th century.
		The late baroque in Seville is best represented by Juan de ValdÈs Leal (1622-90), whose two paintings (1672) of vanitas (reminders of mortality) subjects in the Hospital of La Caridad, Seville, are horrifying in their morbid, ultrarealistic depictions of skeletons and putrefying cadavers.
		In the late baroque paintings of Antoine Coypel (1661-1722), the pervasive influence of Rubens is strongly apparent, especially in those for the Royal Chapel of Versailles.
	www.uib.no /ped/baroque.html (4048 words)

	Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art
		The word baroque comes from the Portuguese word meaning "irregularly shaped pearl." It was first used in the 17th century to describe something that did not meet the classical standards of the Renaissance.
		Paintings and other art created during this time were full of high drama and emotional appeal, portraying vivid images of the Bible, saints, miracles and the crucifixion.
		Baroque art, in general, was characterized by elaborate displays of grandeur.
	www.alifetimeofcolor.com /study/g_baroque.html (235 words)

	Baroque Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		Early Baroque art appeared in Italy in the late 16th century, while some countries such as Germany and colonial South America did not adopt the style until as late as the 18th century.
		Baroque painters, sculptors, and architects sought to portray emotion, variety, and movement in their works by appealing to the senses.
		Baroque Style was typified by strong contrasts in value and bold ornamentation that added action and drama to the art.
	wwar.com /masters/movements/baroque.html (605 words)

	Baroque: Baroque Art
		The Baroque movement originated in Italy in the late1500â€™s (spanning through to the 1700â€™s) and was later accepted by France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.
		This art period was a reaction against the formulaic Mannerist style which was the dominant form during the late Renaissance.
		Prized for its opulence, the Baroque style was imported to Brazil in the 17th century by Italian émigrés.
	www.lycos.com /info/baroque--baroque-art.html (622 words)

	Introduction: Triumph of the Baroque-NGA
		Emerging in both Rome and Paris shortly after 1600, the baroque in art and architecture soon spread throughout Europe, where it prevailed for one hundred and fifty years.
		Baroque architects had been schooled in the classical Renaissance tradition, emphasizing symmetry and harmonious proportions, but their designs revealed a new sense of dynamism and grandeur.
		Baroque architects also mastered the unification of the visual arts -- painting, sculpture, architecture, garden design, and urban planning -- to a remarkable degree, producing buildings and structures with a heightened sense of drama and power.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/2000/baroque/intro1.shtm (369 words)

	Baroque Art Style Information at Buy Art
		It is said that if art was the handmaiden of theology during the Middle Ages, then in the Renaissance it became the mistress of princes.
		Baroque is characterized with extravagance; great drama is exemplified by bold composition, strange juxtapositions of content and use of bright elementary colors.
		Whereas up until then the range of art medias had been separate, this new style mixed medias and capitalized on the scientific advances of the period- a new understanding of optics and optical illusions.
	www.buy-original-art.com /styles/baroque.htm (875 words)

	Baroque Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		Early Baroque art appeared in Italy in the late 16th century, while some countries such as Germany and colonial South America did not adopt the style until as late as the 18th century.
		Baroque painters, sculptors, and architects sought to portray emotion, variety, and movement in their works by appealing to the senses.
		Baroque Style was typified by strong contrasts in value and bold ornamentation that added action and drama to the art.
	www.wwar.com /masters/movements/baroque.html (466 words)

	Baroque
		Baroque art falls into the period of Counter-Reformation led by the Catholic church against the Protestants.
		Baroque art has continuous overlapping of figures and elements where the Renaissance and clear defined planes that recede in depth.
		Baroque art uses light (and other compositional elements) to create meaning instead of for its purely naturalistic effects or to reveal form.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~fellows/hart206/baroque.htm (304 words)

	Learn more about Baroque art in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Cultural movement of Baroque has often been identified with that of Absolutism and the Counter Reformation, though the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states undercuts this unity.
		The blending of religious and erotic was intensely offensive to neoclassical restraint and Victorianism; it is part of the genius of the Baroque.
		Bernini, who shows every sign in his writings of being a convinced and conventionally devout Catholic, is not attempting to satirize the experience of a virgin who lived a life of chastity, but reflecting a complex truth about religious experience - that it is an experience that takes places in a body.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/ba/baroque_art_1.html (774 words)

	Baroque Painting: The Golden Age
		Though undoubtedly Baroque, this was a profoundly realistic art, preferring a broad visual synthesis, with a predominance of pictorial over tactile values, to the analytical approach of the sixteenth-century primitivists.
		The new art remained faithful to the themes of the preceding century: pictures of religious subjects continued to predominate, but the patronage extended by the Hapsburgs to the more famous artists resulted in the execution of numerous royal portraits, as well as paintings of historical events and scenes from private and court life.
		Coello's Baroque complexity, however, is combined with a naturalistic interest in detail that sometimes detracts from the formal hierarchy of his composition, as in his painting of Charles II and his courtiers worshipping at the Sagrada Forma in the Escorial, now preserved in the sacristy of the monastery.
	www.kfki.hu /~arthp/tours/spain/p_17.html (4502 words)

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