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Adjective
/bəˈrōk/,
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Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists,
  1. Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists

  2. Highly ornate and extravagant in style
    • - the candles were positively baroque
Noun
  1. The baroque style

  2. The baroque period

  1. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
  2. the historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe
  3. elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
  4. of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750
  5. Baroque (bə- in American English or in British English) is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century in Europe. ...
  6. Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the era, starting in the late 16th century in Italy, that took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. ...
  7. Baroque (often spelled Barroque) is a white French wine grape planted primarily in South West France around the Tursan region. It can make full bodied wines with nutty flavors. J. ...
  8. Baroque music describes a style of European classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1750. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical era. ...
  9. Baroque is a console role-playing game developed by Sting Entertainment and published by Atlus, originally developed for the Sega Saturn and later ported to the PlayStation. It was later remade by Sting, where it was to be a planned exclusive for Japan. ...
  10. from the Baroque period in visual art and music; A period in western architecture from ca. 1600 to the middle of the eighteenth century, known for its abundance of decoration; A period in western art from ca. ...
  11. ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail; complex and beautiful, yet for an outward irregularity; chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque; embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to ...
  12. The seventeenth-century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and exaggerated emotional expression.
  13. An extremely elaborate and ornate artistic style. This dynamic, theatrical style dominated art and architecture in Europe during the 17th Century.
  14. artistic style of the seventeenth century characterized in sculpture by passion, in architecture by grandeur and the use of curved structures, and in painting by voluptuous figures, huge landscapes, and dramatic subjects.
  15. A machine made "reamy" glass, created by combining glasses of mis-matched compositions. The different glasses "oppose" each other when they are stirred together, creating artistic 3-D swirls. A Spectrum exclusive.
  16. A term used in literary criticism to describe literature that is complex or ornate in style or diction. Baroque works typically express tension, anxiety, and violent emotion. ...
  17. A style of art and architecture developed in the late 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, featuring dynamic curved elements and extravagantly and dramatically contorted classical forms.
  18. An industry expression used to describe any pearl that is not symmetrical. Typically baroque pearls, whether cultured or natural, will be free form and asymmetrical.
  19. Oddly shaped pearls that form during cultivation.
  20. A style originating in Italy in the early 17th century. Extravagantly ornate, florid and convoluted in character or style.
  21. The term Baroque is applied to the late Renaissance period (1600-1750) when all the arts were combined to produce dramatic effects. It is said to derive from the Portuguese word for a rough pearl.
  22. Originating in Italy during the 1600s, this highly ornamental style includes twisted columns, elaborate scrolls, floors with inlaid wood designs, lots of luxurious fabric and regal colors like gold and  purple, as well as deep colors like red, green, and burnt umber.
  23. A period of time in Western music history that began in the late 1500s and ended in the early 1700s. Operas composed and performed during this period are characterized by highly stylized presentations and elaborately embellished vocal singing.
  24. An elaborate, extravagantly complex, sometimes grotesque, style of artistic expression prevalent in the late 16th to early 18th centuries. The baroque influence on poetry was expressed by Euphuism in England, Marinism in Italy, and Gongorism in Spain.
  25. Musical era that is generally considered to have lasted from about 1600 to about 1750. Major Baroque composers include the later Monteverdi, J. S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and Purcell. ...