One of the great periods of art history, Baroque Art was developed by Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, and Gianlorenzo Bernini, among others.

A nineteenth century French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque.

The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the art of counterpoint ; the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. 1 or the same composer's Cantata No. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.

However, the term " Baroque " as applied to art ( for example Rubens ) refers to a much earlier historical period than when applied to music ( Händel, Bach ).

The 17th century destruction changed forever the appearance of Syracuse, as well as the entire Val di Noto, whose cities were rebuilt along the typical lines of Sicilian Baroque, considered one of the most typical expressions of art of Southern Italy.

In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.

Depictions of Islamic " Moors " and " Turks " ( imprecisely named Muslim groups of North Africa and West Asia ) can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art.

Mannerism, beginning at the time of his death, and later the Baroque, took art " in a direction totally opposed " to Raphael's qualities ; " with Raphael's death, classic art-the High Renaissance-subsided ", as Walter Friedländer put it.

Traditional Serbian art showed some Baroque influences at the end of the 18th century as shown in the works of Nikola Nešković, Teodor Kračun, Zaharije Orfelin and Jakov Orfelin.

The bare and empty state of those churches left in Catholic hands after the hostilities eventually ended prompted a large programme of restocking with Catholic art, which had much to do with the vigour of Northern Mannerism and later Flemish Baroque painting, and many Gothic churches were given Baroque makeovers.

The painting was included in the art exhibition " Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725 " at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California which lasted from December 16, 2008 through May 3, 2009.

Linear is one of the five categories proposed by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin to distinguish " Classic ", or Renaissance art, from the Baroque.

Then the lower ground floor galleries in the south west part of the museum were redesigned, opening in 1978 to form the new galleries covering Continental art 1600 – 1800 ( late Renaissance, Baroque through Rococo and neo-Classical ).

As Renaissance styles survived late in the city, the appearance of Baroque art was also delayed, but from the mid-18th century Klausenburg was once again at the centre of the development and spread of art in Transylvania, as it had been two centuries earlier.

The impressive size and architectural beauty sets it among the most impressive monuments of medieval art, with subsequent developments added Gothic and then Renaissance and Baroque.

Expressionism has been likened to Baroque by critics such as art historian Michel Ragon and German philosopher Walter Benjamin.

He visited Italy in 1847 ; his experience there confirmed his dislike of Renaissance and Baroque arhitecture, but he found much to admire in the medieval art of northern Italy.

* Convent of la Compañía de Jesus, in Baroque style, today used for art exhibitions

Strong chiaroscuro became a popular effect during the sixteenth century, in Mannerism and in Baroque art.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.

The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

During the Renaissance and the Baroque, visible brick walls were unpopular and the brickwork was often covered with plaster.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti was an important figure in the transition from Baroque to Classical.

However, the length and weight of pieces was still set with some Baroque characteristics: individual movements still focused on one affect or had only one sharply contrasting middle section, and their length was not significantly greater than Baroque movements.

Renaissance architecture was keen to revive the classical vocabulary and styles, and the informed use and variation of the classical orders remained fundamental to the training of architects throughout Baroque, Rococo and Neo-classical architecture.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Despite this, his influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism was profound.

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

English Country Dance ( ECD ) was popular well into the Baroque and Regency eras.

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

The Baroque school his apprentices had created was already under fire from a new generation that brushed Wren's reputation aside and looked back beyond him to Inigo Jones.

In 1619, it was replaced by the current bronze statue, created by Franco-Flemish Baroque sculptor, father of the more famous.

In his architectural career, he created what came to be known as English Baroque.

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, created by George Drury Smith in 1968, is the central literary arts center in the Los Angeles area.

Leonard points out that " Stephenson seems to be telling us throughout the " Baroque Cycle " is that the actual way things really happened — the way systems of credit were created, or timber delivered — is just as kooky as anything that a fabulist could concoct out of the wild speculation of his or her own mind.

In the 16th century Giuliano da Sangallo made changes in the choir area and in 1600 Carlo Maderno enlarged the apse, added Baroque decorations and created the present facade with its pilastered tripartite division in Renaissance style.

Mansart's elevations for the pavilions were to be frescoed to designs adapted from a suite that Le Brun had recently drawn and the frescoed exteriors of the otherwise somewhat severe buildings created a richly Baroque ensemble of feigned sculptures against draperies and hangings, with vases on feigned sculptural therms against the piers — all in the somewhat eclectic Olympian symbolism that Le Brun and the King favoured everywhere at Versailles: the decor of the pavillon du Roi featured Apollo, the Sun King's iconographic persona, and Thetis.

The original wooden Chronos might have been created by master craftsman Albrecht von Nürnberg, while the current and most recent Hans is a 1930 reconstruction of a Baroque original.

In 2002 the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute was created to provide pre-professional and professional musicians with a unique training programme in instrumental and vocal baroque performance practice.

They are conservative in that they avoid some of the Italian Baroque innovations such as the concertato style and the basso continuo, both of which were becoming widely used in Germany by 1610 ; but he also created a highly individual musical language using traditional forms and means, quite distinct from the Palestrinian polyphony adopted by the other composers of the time commonly regarded as " conservative.

The Paul Beaver version of Gershon Kingsley & Jean Jeaque Perrey's " Baroque Hoedown ", created specially for the Electrical Water Pageant, was used from 1971 until 1977.

With the return of the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade in an updated form along with the brand new Walt Disney World Main Street Electrical Parade, a new version of Jean Jeaque Perry & Gershgon Kingsley's " Baroque Hoedown " was created in 1977 to be used with both parades respectively featuring an updated rendition of Barque Hoedown recorded by Don Dorsey.

To help distinguish the Electrical Water Pageant from the Main Street Electrical Parade, the original Kingsley-Perry version of " Baroque Hoedown " was dropped and a new version using various musical selections was created for both the opening and closing of the Electrical Water Pageant as well as each creature depicted in the pageant.

Harrison's experimental tack piano suite Incidental Music to Corneille's ' Cinna ( 1955-7 ), in 7-limit Just Intonation, was created for a puppet opera that was never performed, and based on the story of a Roman general as told by the French Baroque playwright Corneille.

Adam used a wide variety of sources for his designs, often reminiscent of Continental Baroque, and created an inventive personal style of decoration.

The musical satirist Peter Schickele created P. D. Q. Bach, a supposedly newly-discovered member of the Bach family, whose creative output parodies musicological scholarship, the conventions of Baroque and classical music, as well as introducing elements of slapstick comedy.

* Ballets created on Corella by today's choreographers: For 4 by Christopher Wheeldon, Non Troppo by Mark Morris, The Pied Piper by David Parsons, HereAfter by Natalie Weir & Stanton Welch, Meadow by Lar Lubovitch, Baroque Game by Robert Hill, Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra by Robert Hill, Known by Heart by Twyla Tharp, Getting Closer by John Neumeier, Sin and Tonic by James Kudelka, and both Clear and We Got it Good by choreographer Stanton Welch.

Some of Seville's grandest churches were built in the Baroque period, several of them with retables ( altar-pieces ) created by accomplished artists ; many of the traditional rituals and customs of Holy Week still observed in Seville, including the display of venerated images, date from this time.