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Baroque

adjective

Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation. Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque.

Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750.

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"Baroque" Quotes from Famous Books

... stand out clear and distinct, and the whole is their summation. The former is always the case when the surfaces are left plain with few divisions, or, if the surfaces are divided, when the lines intersect and intermingle, as is exemplified in late Renaissance or Baroque work, where the walls are covered with lavish ornament, the enframement of windows is broken by moldings and sculpture which carry into the surrounding spaces, and where, instead of embracing one story, the "orders" ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... to me, however, were not devoid of personal reactions. These commonly took an aesthetic turn. An early letter from Rome had a good deal to say about the Baroque. He met it everywhere; it was an abomination; it tried his soul. Fontana and Maderna, the Gog and Magog of architecture, had flanked the portals of art and had let through a hideous throng of artificialities and corruptions.... The word "Baroque" was new to me, and I looked it ...

— On the Stairs • Henry B. Fuller

Words linked to "Baroque" : Baroque period, baroqueness, historic period, age, fancy, artistic style, idiom, churrigueresco, churrigueresque