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Baroque   /bərˈoʊk/   Listen
Baroque

noun
1.
The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.  Synonyms: Baroque era, Baroque period.
2.
Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century.  Synonym: baroqueness.
adjective
1.
Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation.  Synonyms: churrigueresco, churrigueresque.
2.
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



... origin or period, or even, wonderful as they are, of a taste quite so perfect. They have been put on at a later time, by a process of which there are very few examples, and none so important as this, which is really quite unique—so that, though the whole thing is a little baroque, its value as a specimen is, I ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James
... and convulsive activity of his music, nothing really progresses, develops, happens in it. Above all, the stylistic severity of Brahms in Reger has become a confusion of styles; an absence of style. The classic has become the baroque. ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... seventeenth century, stood under the sign manual of the Pigtail and Periwig; it was baroque, stilted, bombastic, affected, feeling and form alike were forced, not spontaneous. Verses were turned out by machinery and glued together. Martin Opitz,[14] the recognized leader and king of poets, had travelled far, but there is no distinct feeling ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese


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