In 1750 she sent her nephew, The Swiss-born art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) started the rehabilitation of the word Baroque in his Renaissance und Barock (1888); Wölfflin identified the Baroque as "movement imported into mass", an art antithetic to Renaissance art. Get 30% your subscription today. The French Baroque style (often termed The major royal project of the period was the expansion of Baroque architecture in Portugal lasted about two centuries (the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century). However, a baptismal certificate dated December 30, 1572 has been found in Taxco, belonging to a boy named Juan, son of Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón and Leonor de Mendoza, the poet's parents. The Baroque.

In addition to its practical (protective) function, the face also has aesthetic and architectural purposes. Despite Alarcón's statements, most critics consider Taxco his birthplace.

Baroque art and architecture, the visual arts and building design and construction produced during the era in the history of Western art that roughly coincides with the 17th century. Door gebruik te maken van onze website, ga je akkoord met het gebruik van deze cookies. It reached its peak in the High Baroque …

17th–18th centuries. Its tuning was more like the Renaissance lute for the strings over the fingerboard, although the string length was so long that the top two strings had to be tuned an octave lower.

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Top: Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens (1635–40); Centre: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Bernini (1651); Bottom: The Wieskirche in Bavaria (1754) Years active. In informal usage, the word baroque describes something that is elaborate and highly detailed. The elements of a baroque garden included Baroque gardens required enormous numbers of gardeners, continual trimming, and abundant water. Many monumental works were commissioned by Popes Another major innovator of the Italian High Baroque was Painted ceilings, crowded with angels and saints and Gallery with forced perspective, by Francesco Borromini, which creates the illusion that the corridor is much longer than it really is, in the The Catholic Church in Spain, and particularly the Jesuits, were the driving force of Spanish Baroque architecture.

Their works, known for their subtle intelligence and profound comprehension of a person's humanity, could be considered a bridge between Lope's primitive comedy and the more elaborate comedy of Calderón.

By the 1730s, it had evolved into an even more flamboyant style, called In the 18th century the term began to be used to describe music, and not in a flattering way. Baroque coffered ceiling of the cupola of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, designed by Francesco Borromini, 1638–41.

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Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The work that distinguishes the Baroque period is stylistically complex and even contradictory. The same could be applied to the exterior.

The first period is represented chiefly by Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, and Calderón were the most important play writers in Golden Era Spain.

These aesthetic qualities are evident in both Baroque art and Baroque architecture. It gives both a sense of motion and also a dramatic new way of reflecting light. The baroque era lasted for about 150 years, beginning in 1600 with the first attempts at opera, and ending in 1750 with the death of its great master, Johann Sebastian Bach.

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