Over time, the bishopric continued to commission new architectural projects of importance, such as the redesign of the main facade, undertaken in 1664 by Alonso Cano ( 1601 – 1667 ) to introduce Baroque elements.

Some examples of this Baroque period are the Convento de San Francisco, the Iglesia de la Compañía, and the facade of the University of Cuzco and, overall, the churches of San Agustín and Santa Rosa of Arequipa.

The rooms and galleries along the southern facade and in the western wing of the New Hermitage are now entirely devoted to Dutch Golden Age and Flemish Baroque painting of the 17th century, including the large collections of van Dyck, Rubens and Rembrandt.

The facade is classified as late Baroque in transition to Neoclassical, with Doric and Corinthian columns.

The facade of the old monastery is highly decorated in Baroque style, in front of which is a large atrium.

The extraordinary Baroque facade of Guadalupe Church

The Church of our Lady of Guadalupe possesses an extraordinarily exuberant Baroque facade designed by José de Alcibar, a renowned architect of the period considered to be one of the most famous artists in Mexico in the 1770s.

The facade of the main church is Baroque with Salomonic columns heavily decorated in stucco forms to mimic an altarpiece.

The building is a large mansion with a Neoclassic facade and a Baroque interior.

This facade has been altered over time with the additions of a bell gable and a Baroque tower.

The facade has some Baroque elements, with its main entrance marked by a simple arch flanked by Corinthian columns and fluted pilasters The choral window is flanked by Ionic columns.

The facade has a Baroque portal with Solomonic columns.

It is a good baroque facade ( of Mexican Baroque ), considered the most important of the city.

It has a Baroque facade and what is considered to be the best cupola in the city.

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 facade is Baroque style and the interior conserves aspects of its 16th century origins, such as the groin vault.

Its Baroque facade of golden limestone is enlivened by windows set into blind arches that march across its front and busts in oval reserves, all under a richly-sculptured pediment that is pierced by an oval window.

The elaborate Baroque facade is covered in carvings.

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.

The great Baroque facade, in yellow tufa-stone, is surmounted by a massive campanile with finely shaped decorative elements.

Joseph Effner redesigned the facade of the center pavilion in French Baroque style with pilasters in 1716.

Belying its massiveness, the edifice avoids an impression of heroic scale: isolated Palladian and Baroque details, such as the minute pediments over the corner bays and the central loggia, are lost in an endlessly-repeating palace facade where three bands of cornices emphasize the horizontal lines.

In the Middle Ages a castle was built, surrounded by a moat ; later it was converted to a chateau ; its facade as seen today is in the " Josephinian Style ", a late and very rare Baroque style that only was used during the reign of Emperor Joseph II in the late 18th century.

It was a Visigothic sanctuary dating back to the 7th century, although it has Baroque elements, in particular, in the South Gate and the western facade, which adjoins a later residential building.

The interior, in sharp contrast with the facade, is extremely ornate and decorated in the height of the Baroque period.

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

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.

( Baroque art was created during — and often for — the Counter-Reformation and so, ironically, BJU has been criticized by some other fundamentalists for promoting “ false Catholic doctrine ” through its art gallery.

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.