In temperament, his style was more akin to the classicized and restrained baroque of Duquesnoy than to the emotive works of other baroque artists.

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

Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.

The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.

Films of his such as Shanghai Express ( 1932 ) and The Devil Is a Woman ( 1935 ), with their hothouse eroticism and baroque visual style, specifically anticipate central elements of classic noir.

Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century, and is widely revered.

The discursive nature of his writing, together with significant plot and character complexity and an abundance of detail suggests a baroque writing style, which Stephenson brought fully to bear in the three-volume Baroque Cycle.

In keeping with the baroque style, Stephenson's books have become longer as he has gained recognition.

It also attended a change in musical style from the complex counterpoint of the baroque period, to an emphasis on clear melody, homophonic textures, short phrases, and frequent cadences: a style that would later be defined as classical.

The word " baroque " ( probably ) was used first in late 18th century French about the irregular natural pearl shape and later about an architectural style perceived to be " irregular " in comparison to the highly regular Neoclassical architecture of that time.

After a fire in 1697 when the original medieval castle was destroyed, Stockholm Palace was erected in a baroque style.

The album was recorded in an Irish church, in Delgany, County Wicklow, with Amos taking advantage of the church recording setting to create an album ripe with baroque influences, lending it a darker sound and style.

At the ball itself, the style of dance and music is of the romantic period ( with some baroque ) while the events of the film are from the classical period.

The term Rococo may also be interpreted as a combination of the word " barocco " ( an irregularly shaped pearl, possibly the source of the word " baroque ") and the French " rocaille " ( a popular form of garden or interior ornamentation using shells and pebbles ), and may be used to describe the refined and fanciful style that became fashionable in parts of Europe during the eighteenth century.

The rococo music style itself developed out of baroque music, particularly in France.

While classical in scope, the opening section of the setting demonstrates Pergolesi's mastery of the Italian baroque durezze e ligature style, characterized by numerous suspensions over a faster, conjunct bassline.

The sober façade shifts from baroque style to neoclassic.

His plan was to transform the medieval city into a city of the new baroque style, modeled on Turin, with a logical street layout, with straight avenues offering long, uninterrupted views flanked by buildings of a uniform size.

The interior was restored in the baroque style in 1712.

The revival of baroque music in the 1960s and ' 70s sparked renewed interest in 17th and 18th century dance styles.

After his death he was taken back to Pontigny Abbey, where his main relics are now found in a baroque reliquary tomb dating to the 17th century.

In the 17th century whistles were called flageolets ; a term to describe a whistle with a French made fipple headpiece ( common to the modern penny whistle ) and such instruments are linked to the development of the English flageolet, French flageolet and recorders of the renaissance and baroque period.

The use of the passacaglia technique of a circulating bass line and harmonic sequence, invented and much used in 17th and 18th century baroque music but also central to the idea of jazz " changes ", predominates in most of Piazzolla's mature compositions.

Two baroque chapels were added in the 17th and 18th centuries, which are shut off from the rest of the church.

They were developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in Holland before spreading to Germany, becoming a popular element of the baroque architecture of Central Europe.

The present building with an early baroque style was erected in the end of the 17th century.

He approved a renovation of the Schwanenburg in the baroque style and commissioned the construction of extensive gardens that greatly influenced European landscape design of the 17th century.

During the 17th century a fine sacristy was built in baroque style and, after 1755, the main chapel was rebuilt in neoclassical and Rococo styles ( including the tombs of King Afonso IV and his family ).

Among the churches of the Alfama are Lisbon Cathedral ( 12th-14th centuries ), the oldest of the city and located to the West of the neighbourhood, the Convent of the Grace ( Convento da Graça, 18th century ), near the Castle, the mannerist Monastery of São Vicente de Fora ( late 16th-18th century ), where the Kings of the House of Braganza are buried, and the baroque Church of Santa Engrácia ( 17th century ), now converted into a National Pantheon for important Portuguese personalities.

During the 17th century, Žilina gained position as a center of manufacturing, trade and education and during the baroque age many monasteries and churches were built as well as the Budatín Castle.

Overview of baroque garden, seen from the palaceThe oldest part of the gardens was created at the end of the 17th century under the direction of Hedwig Eleonora.

The Franciscan church and monastery was built in the early baroque style in the middle of the 17th century.

Hendrik " Henk " Bouman ( born 1951 ) is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.

In 1993, with over 18 years as performer, researcher and professor in early music, Hendrik Bouman embarked on the composition of new music in baroque and classical idioms according to the standards of the 17th & 18th century.

He has composed over 100 works in 17th and 18th Century style for harpsichord ; piano ; clavichord ; organ ; violin solo ; viola solo ; flute solo ; recorder solo cello solo ; as well as quartets ; trios ; duets ; sonatas ; ouvertures ; concerto grossos ; harpsichord concertos ; violin concerto ; recorder concerto ; flute concerto ; oboe concerto ; cello concerto ; music for baroque theatre and a classical symphony.

Later books delve into more complex renaissance and baroque music, including instruction in intense baroque ornamentation along with 17th c. Dutch and Italian articulation techniques.

Apart from country dances, the most well-documented baroque dance style was that which was developed at the French court during the 17th century.

The heyday of the virginals was the latter half of the 16th century to the later 17th century until the high baroque period when it was eclipsed in England by the bentside spinet and in Germany by the clavichord.

The Cadre Noir mainly uses Thoroughbreds, Anglo-Arabians, Hanoverians and Selle Français, but also keeps Lusitano horses to demonstrate the 16th and 17th century baroque style of riding.

However, painting styles in Rome during the early 17th century were diverse, a more classic manner of the Bolognese disciples of the Carracci and the baroque style of Pietro da Cortona.

However, early music of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and in particular, baroque music extending up to about 1750, includes a substantial body of music for which coloratura technique is required by vocalists and instrumentalists alike.

In the 17th century, rapier fencing of the Italian school becomes fashionable, with treatises such as Salvator Fabris ', and the German tradition, falling into disfavour as old-fashioned and unrefined among the baroque nobility, was discontinued.