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Definition of Baroque
1. Adjective. Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation. "The building...frantically baroque"
2. Noun. The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe.
3. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750.
4. Noun. Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century.
Definition of Baroque
1. a. In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
2. a. Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
Definition of Baroque
1. Adjective. from the Baroque period in visual art and music. ¹
2. Proper noun. A period in western architecture from ca. 1600 to the middle of the eighteenth century, known for its abundance of decoration. ¹
3. Proper noun. A period in western art from ca. 1600 to the middle of the eighteenth century, characterized by drama, rich color, and dramatic contrast between light and shadow. ¹
4. Proper noun. A period in western music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760, characterized by extensive use of counterpoint, basso-continuo, and extensive ornamentation. ¹
5. Proper noun. The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture. ¹
6. Adjective. ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. ¹
7. Adjective. complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. ¹
8. Adjective. chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. ¹
9. Adjective. embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baroque
1. an ornate object [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baroque
Literary usage of Baroque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Book of Interior Decoration by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Edward Stratton Holloway, Abbot MacClure (1919)
"ARCHITECTURAL BACKGROUND. THE ASSOCIATION OF FURNITURE OF VARIOUS PERIODS.
THE FURNITURE OF THE Baroque EPOCH AND ITS EMPLOYMENT. ..."
2. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"Ricci, in his recent monograph on Baroque architecture in Italy, says that Baroque
art is often confounded with that of Michelangelo and the ..."
3. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period by Chandler Rathfon Post (1921)
"THE TRANSITION TO THE Baroque Of Giovanni Bologna's three principal pupils, who
spread his art to other districts of Europe, Pietro Tacca, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the Spanish style of architecture Churrigueresco (Baroque) takes its name.
Notwithstanding this, the influence of Herrera can be traced in the exterior. ..."
5. Adventure Guide Naples, Sorrento & the Amalfi Coast: Capri, Ischia, Pompeii by Marina Carter (2006)
"Renaissance & Baroque Buildings The triumphal arch of the Castel Nuovo is perhaps
the most ... By the 17th century the rich Baroque decorative style, ..."
6. The Enclosed Garden: History and Development of the Hortus Conclusus and Its by Rob Aben, Saskia de Wit (1999)
"Cabinet de verdure and vista: the Baroque garden 'Let [man] look upon that ...
These internal spaces of the Baroque garden are formally organized on plan, ..."
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