Definition of Barocco

1. a. See Baroque.

Definition of Barocco

1. baroque [n -S] - See also: baroque

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barocco

barns
barnsful
barnstar
barnstars
barnstorm
barnstormed
barnstormer
barnstormers
barnstorming
barnstorms
barny
barnyard
barnyards
baro-
barocco (current term)
baroccos
baroceptor
baroceptors
barochore
barochoric
barochory
barock
barocks
barocline
baroclinic
baroclinicity
baroclinity
barocliny
barognosis

Literary usage of Barocco

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"From the numerous public buildings that illustrate the progress of barocco during the half-century succeeding the construction of Heidelberg, ..."

2. 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)
"These churches are in the barocco style with a profusion of many-coloured marbles in which all the magnificence of Venice is displayed. ..."

3. Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"... Syphilis '—barocco Flatteries—Bembo—Immoral Elegies—Imitations of Ovid and Tibullus —The 'Benacus '—Epitaphs—Navagero-Epigrams and Eclogues— Molsa—Poem ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Ч±<я 3 barocco ARCHITECTURE: DOORWAY OP CHURCH ox THE ESTATE OF ... barocco ARCHITECTURE. That which is assumed to have the characteristics included in the ..."

5. The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence by Adolf Holm (1898)
"Schreiber's view is that this barocco style, as he thinks he is entitled to call the tendency of art in that time, shows itself in three things : (1) ..."

6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The " Porta Felice " at Palermo shows barocco in 1582. ... With the development of a particularly florid barocco throughout the seventeenth century a number ..."

7. The Diary of an Idle Woman in Sicily by Frances Minto Elliot (1885)
"As to the Cathedral, when I saw it bristling with barocco ... barocco has a faux air of the cinque-cento, deformed and exaggerated into burlesque; ..."

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