Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century.

The architect James Gibbs was a transitional figure, many of his buildings having a hint of Baroque, reflecting the time he spent in Rome in the early 18th century.

The church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome contains a Baroque sculpture of Habakkuk by the 17th-century artist Bernini.

At Rome he was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the papal palace and of the restoration of the Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine, which debouched into a simple basin designed by Alberti, which was swept away later by the Baroque Trevi Fountain.

He began the triumphant Baroque Fontana di Trevi, one of the noted ornaments of Rome.

He was influential in bringing the Bolognese artist Guercino to Rome, a landmark in the development of the High Baroque style.

Famous artists and architects, such as Bramante, Bernini and Raphael resided for some time in Rome, contributing to its Renaissance and Baroque architecture.

The Roman School was a group of composers of predominantly church music in Rome, spanning the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

Although Rococo is usually thought of as developing first in the decorative arts and interior design, its origins lie in the late Baroque architectural work of Borromini ( 1599 – 1667 ) mostly in Rome and Guarini ( 1624 – 83 ) mostly in Northern Italy but also in Vienna, Prague, Lisbon, and Paris.

The styles, despite both being richly decorated, also had different themes ; the Baroque, for instance, was more serious, placing an emphasis on religion, and was often characterized by Christian themes ( as a matter of fact, the Baroque began in Rome as a response to the Protestant Reformation ); Rococo architecture was an 18th-century, more secular, adaptation of the Baroque which was characterized by more light-hearted and jocular themes.

Inspired by St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the original for all Baroque domes, it is one of the triumphs of French Baroque architecture.

A " local sacking " was carried out by Baroque architects, who used the remains as a sort of marble storehouse for the palazzi they were building in Rome.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri ( February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666 ), best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna.

He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century.

Following a period studying in Rome, Parma and Venice, Giordano developed an elaborate Baroque style fusing Venetian and Roman Influences.

* San Filippo Neri is a Baroque construction of mid-17th century, designed by the Spoletine Loreto Scelli and inspired by churches in Rome of the same period.

* December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th century Rome ( died 1680 )

Hadrian also built the Pons Aelius facing straight onto the mausoleum – it still provides a scenic approach from the center of Rome and the right bank of the Tiber, and is renowned for the Baroque additions of statues of angels holding aloft elements of the Passion of Christ.

His pupil Giacomo della Porta continued this work in Rome, particularly in the façade of the Jesuit church Il Gesù, which leads directly to the most important church façade of the early Baroque, Santa Susanna ( 1603 ), by Carlo Maderno

A number of ecclesiastical buildings of the Baroque period in Rome had plans based on the Italian paradigm of the basilica with a crossed dome and nave, but the treatment of the architecture was very different to what had been carried out previously.

The same concerns with plasticity, massing, dramatic effects and shadow and light is evident in the architectural work of Pietro da Cortona, illustrated by his design of Santi Luca e Martina ( construction began in 1635 ) with what was probably the first curved Baroque church facade in Rome.

The most talented architects active in Rome — Francesco de Sanctis ( Spanish Steps, 1723 ) and Filippo Raguzzini ( Piazza Sant ' Ignazio, 1727 )— had little influence outside their native country, as did numerous practitioners of the Sicilian Baroque, including Giovanni Battista Vaccarini, Andrea Palma, and Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia.

Contact with artists in other media, especially dance and the visual arts, as well as a long-standing interest in Eastern religions such as Buddhism ( Zen ) and study of the music of composers from the Baroque and Pre-Baroque eras has likewise impacted his music.

Vukovar's long-standing prosperity was reflected in one of Croatia's finest ensembles of Baroque architecture.

By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

Three notable works, all dating from the 1770s, " Apollo and Diana Attacking Niobe and her Children " by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, " The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana " by Pierre-Charles Jombert and " Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe ’ s Children with their Arrows " by Jacques-Louis David belong to the tradition of French Baroque and Classicism.

Early music is a general term used to describe music in the European classical tradition from after the fall of the Roman Empire, in 476 AD, until the end of the Baroque era in the middle of the 18th century.

The great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition significantly influenced Handel in his approaches to composition.

The tradition of personalized arrangements, dating back at least as far as Thomas Arne's later 18th century arrangements, continues today, running the gamut of musical styles from Romantic to Baroque: Austin, Britten, Sargent, Bonynge, Dobin and other conductors have each imbued the songs with a personal stamp, highlighting different aspects of characterization.

These followed the Baroque tradition begun a century before by Pietro da Cortona, converting roof to painted sky, elevating petty aristocrats to divine status, and allowing for vast compositions that merged with the delicate ornamentation of the stucco frames.

The Baroque era in British music can be seen as one of an interaction of national and international trends, sometimes absorbing continental fashions and practices and sometimes attempting, as in the creation of ballad opera, to produce an indigenous tradition.

New tendencies of early Baroque monody soon found their way into the domestic musical tradition, both sacral and secular.

The tradition of the Baroque was more lasting in church / sacral music, which was the musical form that was systematically nurtured in numerous monasteries ( especially Franciscan ones ) as well as in parish and cathedral churches.

* The Garden à la française, or Baroque French gardens, in the tradition of André Le Nôtre.

This was written in the Baroque tradition and ( almost ) entirely unconnected to traditional Jewish cantorial music.

:"( It ) was the last opera of the great Baroque tradition: the most beautiful, the most imaginative, possibly the most complete ; but also, irremediably, the last ".

Transmitted via Islamic Spain, a new tradition of azulejos developed in Spain and especially Portugal, which by the Baroque period produced extremely large painted scenes on tiles, usually in blue and white, for walls rather than floors.

The Spanish brought their own tradition of religious art which, in the hands of local indigenous and mestizo builders and artisans, developed into a rich and distinctive style of architecture, literature, and sculpture known as " Mestizo Baroque.

It drew on the Chinese tradition of literati painting by scholar-bureaucrats, but the Kanō painters were firmly professional artists, very generously paid if successful, who received a formal workshop training in the family workshop, in a similar way to European painters of the Renaissance or Baroque.

Osman is firmly rooted within the rich literary tradition of the Croatian Baroque in Dubrovnik and Dalmatia and is considered as one of its apogees.

Saint Paul's dictum that " women should be silent in churches " resonated with this tradition ; the development of vocal polyphony from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Baroque thus took place largely, though not exclusively, in the context of the all-male choir, in which all voice parts were sung by men and boys.

Some Baroque composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, did try to challenge Italian dominance, but it was only with the appearance of Mozart that a lasting tradition of serious German-language opera was established.

He died young and left behind a single collection of organ music, which together with the work of François Couperin, represents the pinnacle of French Baroque organ tradition.

It is built in a Spanish Baroque style, follows the Glaswegian tradition of using Dumfriesshire red sandstone, and includes an entire program of architectural sculpture by George Frampton, Francis Derwent Wood and other sculptors.

This was a time of transition in music history, as the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance was giving way to the widely diverse practices of the early Baroque, and d ' India seems to have acquired an unusually broad grasp of the total stylistic practice in Italy: the expressive madrigal style of Marenzio, the grand polychoral work of the Venetian School, the conservative polyphonic tradition of the Roman School, the attempts to recover the music of the ancient world in monody and its larger vehicle, the newly developing opera, as well as the mannered, emotionally intense chromatic style of Carlo Gesualdo in Naples.

The state bed, intended for receiving important visitors and producing heirs before a select public, but not intended for sleeping in, evolved during the second half of the seventeenth century, developing the medieval tradition of receiving visitors in the bedroom, which had become the last and most private room of the standard suite of rooms in a Baroque apartment.

It is the first in a German Baroque tradition of comparison of musical devices with rhetorical devices, an idea which was to be later expanded by Joachim Burmeister and Mattheson.

He followed a French Baroque tradition by not setting the Requiem Sequence ( the Dies irae poem, which contains other well-known sections such as the Rex tremendae and Lacrimosa ).

Patrick ’ s music derives from a rich, tonal style influenced by his love of the English Romantic tradition as well as the Renaissance and Baroque periods.