How To Use Baroque In A Sentence

If you think baroque is all about curlicues and foofaraws, Rome is the place to learn otherwise.
In the US a baroque webwork of agencies shares responsibilities for determining safe levels of chemical residue in and on food.
The orchestral arrangements added fresh layers of drama and grandeur to her already baroque style. Times, Sunday Times
Pinto Coelho was particularly fond of the Baroque style, and it features dominantly in his collection. Pinto Coelho's Daring Style
Their music is firmly rooted in the Irish tradition but also encompasses an unusual blend of hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque.

Schiff's forms depend (like Marianne Moore's) on interlocking enjambments, on syllabics, and on baroque grammar, or else (unlike Moore's) on dense repetitions derived from Provençal forms.
From alcohol they progress (oh so slowly) to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
The most baroque of these is a slippery square of cod, baked in a dome of salt and egg whites, which the waiters tap open at the table with a spoon.
The Baroque approach also encompassed music, costume and performance. Times, Sunday Times
Are these textiles Baroque draperies, shrouds or the curtains of a luxurious four-poster bed defiled and destroyed?
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
To their millionaire owners and portico-loving architects, they are temples of mock baroque and neo-Tudor excess that serve as worthy successors to the great country houses of the past.
Borromini's was surely a life lived baroquely, and his reputation was dealt with in no less a manner. Borromini: the first architect
Tuck into local foods while admiring the city's gothic, renaissance and baroque architecture. The Sun
This is exacerbated by the actors' cloth-eared delivery - stresses invariably in the wrong places render potentially hilarious lines peculiar and baroque.
Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion. Caravaggio
What is more surprising is that we still have an equivocal attitude to the English Baroque. Times, Sunday Times
The dread in the Baroque originated with the intolerable idea of a body without a soul.
The board is carved in the baroque style of ornament, and resembles very closely the black, lettered placards erected in whitewashed country churches.
The Quentin Foundation has assembled a topflight collection of renaissance and baroque bronze statuettes, including some of the boldest statements made by Mannerist and baroque sculptors.
Enthusiasts of the baroque will want to sample but making the purchase for a rather short changed disc that plays for well under an hour would be daunting for some.
the building...frantically baroque
The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths, but scordatura tunings were used in the baroque era, and so tuning in fifths cannot be taken for granted.
They painted almost exclusively altarpieces in a dramatic late Baroque style.
The case was so surrealistic that the novelist Francisco Goldman decided to abandon the magic of fiction and tell this "baroque story of perhaps perverse human passions" in journalistic form in The Art of Political Murder. John Feffer: Not-So-Magical Realism
On the 1967 Chess LP The Baroques by the Milwaukee band of the same name, the word "merkin" is heard in the song "Bicycle. Archive 2007-11-01
The villa galleria was baroquely ostentatious and many of the artworks just clutter-glitter.
The gardens, with a semi-circular water-theatre and nymphaeum are fed by an axial sequence of waterfalls, and are one of the best and most famous examples of early Italian Baroque landscape.
He was gazing idly at the baroque Italian candelabra in the painted dome above his head and reflecting how much more jolly it would have been if the posturing Loves and gilded amoretti had been replaced by lifelike models of the Board of Directors, when a subdued feminine voice in his ear startled him to attention. Sweet Danger
The eastern windows are obscured by a vast Baroque altarpiece.
Dr. Curtis recently used a $1.99 application, ColorSplash, which removes or adds color to pictures, to demonstrate the importance of color in a Caravaggio painting in his seminar on Baroque art.
Mr. Davidson's four pictures are from his "The Nature of Paris" series, and include "Jardin Saint Gilles Grand Veneur, 2006," with its formal rose gardens and a glorious cloudscape of the type usually seen only in Baroque paintings. Crossing Delicate Borders
The madrigals of the baroque period were not written for professionals, and neither were Haydn's string quartets.
Assignments can be organized around a theme, such as Beethoven, baroque music, opera or jazz.
During the baroque period, when the dining table was elaborately decorated, candy bowls and vessels such as this were displayed around large centerpieces or placed on special stands.
Which is why, I guess, he seems happiest when executing baroque and extreme forms of punishment.
Mier's Apologia frequently approximates the picaresque narrative's structure and thematics, and it reveals a baroque style.
From alcohol they progress to opium, thence to heroin, allowing their language to get boozily baroque and even less penetrable.
The shawm, baroque oboe, baroque bassoon and dulcian can overblow without the use of a thumbhole.
It too accumulated an impressive number of guitarists and composers especially as baroque music reached its peak.
In 1934 F.W. Bateson published his little book, English Poetry and the English Language (Oxford [1934], pp. 76-77), where he applied the term baroque even to Thomson, BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
Such decoration was a typical feature of the baroque period.
Although the baroque building, which was built in 1907, was recently refurbished inside, the exterior is repeatedly covered in graffiti and overrun with litter.
As the picaro physically travels, he emotionally and intellectually proceeds from innocence to disillusionment; desengaño, of course, is also a sentiment that permeates baroque texts.
They play works from the baroque and classical periods on original instruments, and present some of the world's finest singers of florid music when they work in opera.
One of the highlights is the Sicilian baroque ballroom with its Murano glass chandeliers. Times, Sunday Times
The relative simplicity of the style, combined with its ability to incorporate in some abstracted manner more traditional architectonic elements -- Wagner's work incorporates clear if modified references to everything from Byzantine to Baroque -- renders it particularly useful for modern church-building, especially when budgets are a concern; there is less of the risk of the finished product appearing, in some sense, undercooked, when key decorative elements are removed due to monetary constraints. Jugendstil
It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet.
While there is little that is new in Kirk's presentation, and the writing is marred by many infelicities and misprints, anyone who writes with sensitivity on this practitioner of Baroque poetry deserves encouragement.
With its ebullience of baroque form and boldly patterned marquetry made of exotic woods, mother-of-pearl and ivory, the stand includes the delightful illusion that an embroidered cloth has been flung across the top.
They feature palatial cathedrals, now totally imaginary, and evoking the grandest styles, from the Sacré-Coeur to the Kremlin, from Saint-Sophia to English gothic, Austrian or German baroque.
It is a delightfully satisfying work of baroque architecture. Times, Sunday Times
Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
But what if Interstate 57 looks decidedly Roman or Subcontinental — or imagine a hysterical combination of a Hindu cremation ritual, a New Orleans jazz funeral march, Jim Crace's quivering, and a High Baroque Requiem mass plus the nonstop visual, aromatic and aural assault from this thanatological mixture. Archive 2006-02-01
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Johann Mattheson, the great, stunningly eloquent peacock of Baroque musical literature, was in no doubt that the chalumeau the forerunner of the clarinet – with its “rather howling sound”, was not an appropriate instrument to be heard in sophisticated entertainments. Archive 2009-04-01
In the latter part of the 20th century the male alto voice became closely associated with the revival of Baroque opera, especially the works of Handel.
In Rome, schoolchildren slid across iced pools in baroque fountains. Times, Sunday Times
Since then the term baroque occurs in English scholarship more frequently. BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
It is a work like no other and, with the first performance taking place in 1761, is pretty much the final throw of the Baroque.
Perhaps Elizabeth LeCompte found Francesco Cavalli's 1641 baroque opus, La Didone, a trifle bloodless-she's corrected that hematic imbalance by splicing the opera with scenes from the 1965 B-flick Planet of the Vampires. Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
Salzburg is not far away and is well worth a visit to see the wonderful Baroque architecture of this elegant city.
At times, the walking step is inflated to a neat little leap; at its most baroque, it becomes a tiny turn.
Participants should come with a prepared piece of baroque solo violin music.
However, the term baroque was also used by those that vilipended the film, as synonymous of extravagant, pretentious or pompous, thus perpetuating the ambiguous nature of the term.
The windhovers do what Baroque art did: they use the sky as a metaphor and inspire sensation, awe and faith.
The leading early makers of violins, whose potential for rhythmic vitality distinguished them in the Baroque era from the viols preferred in the Renaissance, worked in Verona, Brescia, Venice, and Cremona.
The border is echoed in the conglomeration of baroque forms that violently jut in from the bottom left.
He brought stylish performance practice to the music of the baroque and classical periods, especially Handel oratorio and Mozart opera.
I embellished the tale with a baroque gaudery of exaggerated facts and fantastic detail.
Dresden is best known for its beautifully reconstructed baroque architecture and beer gardens. Times, Sunday Times
Verizon's offerings occupy a special category of bureaucratic baroqueness. Samsung Galaxy Tab: review, with video
The baroque church of San Leonardo is worth a quick look.
During the baroque period, when the dining table was elaborately decorated, candy bowls and vessels such as this were displayed around large centerpieces or placed on special stands.
Ukrainian folk architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries shows a considerable influence of baroque ornamentation and neoclassic orders while preserving traditional materials like wood and wattled clay.
The performers here, being very good baroque musicians indeed, have deployed a variety of continuo combinations: harpsichord or lute with violone, gamba, double bass or bassoon.
Granada, in the heart of their great conquest; and it is a most beautiful church, of a mingled Saracenic plateresque Gothic, as the guide-books remind me, and extravagantly baroque as I myself found it. Familiar Spanish Travels
The remaining 14 selections are equally familiar baroque trumpet fare and they are all articulated with dazzling clarity and enthusiasm.
These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.
The building is noted for a beautiful Baroque doorway and the heads of the lions in the cymae of the windows.
With its stepped projections and striations of garbage and wood, this baroque construction evoked a geological formation of layered rock and sediment.
The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
The aims of Quoting Caravaggio are ambitious and laudable, and Mieke Bal's formula for a contemporary baroque is intriguing.
Regal women, from mostly unknown baroque operas, all in the throes of deep crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was a great composers, harpsichord performer and educator in the Baroque Era. The Three Masters in Baroque Era were Bach, Handel and Domenico Scarlatti.
The Baroque churches of Rome were imitated throughout Europe, their ornate altars enclosing a single painting or sculptural group providing a model for many years.
Master cabinetmakers fashioned a low chest of drawers called a commode, which differed from the bureau commode, or large table with drawers, that was crafted in the baroque period.
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
Schlegel, placing Leibniz "among the greatest masters" of a "thoroughly material wit," describes his manner of writing and thinking as falling between science, philosophy, and poetry: "The most important scientific discoveries are bon mots of this sort — are so because of the surprising contingency of their origin, the unifying source of their thought, and the baroqueness of their casual expression .... Club Monad
Directly across from the elevator was an intricate giltwood frame, Baroque and winding and elaborate, like a decorative tangle of thorns, or a gust of waves reaching out from the sea. The Art Thief
While the figure represented recumbent as in death was frequently used on medieval tombs, the figure propped on an elbow as in life was frequently adopted by Renaissance and Baroque artists.
If you are expecting voluptuous women, cascading flesh, and all the excess of full-blown Baroque painting, you will be disappointed.
Reassessing the archival records in EMA, Arenas rewrites Mier's life in his own fantasized, creative, hallucinatory, baroque picaresque fashion.
Regal women, from mostly unknown baroque operas, all in the throes of deep crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Such composers as Sammartini began to write sinfonias for strings, which marked a departure from Baroque instrumental forms and served as models for J. C. Bach and others.
Roman and italic type started to be used together in the same line at the same time black notes began to accompany white notes on the piano, both products of the same Baroque mindset.
Looking ahead, she added in one of her more baroque phrases that the Chinese “have faith, that, at the writing of peace, America and our gallant Allies will not be obtunded by the mirage of contingent reasons of expediency.” The Last Empress
The baroque style is rich in ornament.
In the hands of these powerful musicians the hurdy-gurdy, Baroque lute, bouzouki, electric mandora, viola d'amore, and percussion combine to incite an ecstatic, energized state. World Music Central
Runners were described as ‘rowing their legs to a rapid tempo’, just the sort of improbable turn of phrase which was in fact beloved by the classical baroque.
The word "baroque" comes from the Italian word "barocco" which means bizarre. About.com Music Education
It was not unusual for a Baroque composer - such as his father - to adapt a sinfonia from a cantata into a concerto movement, or to take a secular aria and insert it, with a new text, into a sacred work.
I think this is a major reason that baroque complexity is added by design to many human systems, games and otherwise: because they are systems which need to simulate adaptability, portability, flexibility, which need to mimic the organicism and mutability of life itself. November 2008
These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.
It's a sort of revival of machine opera from the Baroque period.
This style is clearly part of a baroque aesthetic of the table which corresponds to a highly codified system of manners, in which protocol and precedence reigned supreme.
We chose it because it seemed, after all the baroque alternatives, the most generic, plain vanilla name we could think of.
A nude wearing baroque (antique) gold jewellery (and nothing else) is aesthetically much more pleasing than a completely nude woman or one wearing both jewellery and clothes, presumably because the homogeneity and smoothness of the naked skin contrasts sharply with the ornateness and rich texture of the jewellery. The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 1-3
Decked with Gothic windows, Renaissance loggias and Baroque stairways, the city's public spaces emulate the comfortable stride and swagger of Shakespeare's stage Italy.
These companies approach the design and construction of writing implements like Baroque artists. Times, Sunday Times
Compositional studies also appear on another Florentine baroque drawing at the Fogg which has remained unattributed since its accession in 1964.
Wherever the Baroque music was coming from, and it was somewhere in the room, the equipment was well camouflaged.
The negative shapes that result - multiple concavities as baroquely complex as the engendering ovals are rudimentary - echo with revised color choices and adjusted contours.
The effect was more rustic and less baroque, and reminded him of all of the makeshifts that they had used when the Vale was first settled. Elephant in the City
Call it "rococo," call it "baroque" in its passion for ornamentation and its uninhibited excess. Peter Clothier: Miriam Wosk 1947 - 2010: A Tribute by Peter Clothier
But a stiff amble around its cobbled streets, taking in the fierce castle and the quaint medieval Baroque theatre installed in a former granary in the square, confirmed my good first impressions.
The shape is entirely within the bounds of late baroque taste, and no important asymmetrical motifs are evident in the elaborate scrollwork except in a decorative cartouche on the top.
Four books later, Lethem has settled down a lot -- this book is only a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold "Oliver Twist" and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush. Books, 'Tis / Frank Mccourt
It is a baroque glory, constructed between 1543 and 1551.
Democracy had arrived in our country Spain and the most playful, hedonistic side of the Spanish character had exploded ... you could say that even grief was joyful ... thus the Baroque style, the humor and the colorfulness of the story and its characters. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
It is not fortuitous that the key is D minor, a tonality traditionally associated with quest, especially by the Viennese classics, and perhaps by the High Baroque masters as well.
I have a picture of a shrine in my head, all bedecked with knobbly candles and baroque festoonery, and anything less would be disappointing. Interview and a Starred Review
Most of them are still standing, and they surely constitute the finest concentration of baroque architecture outside Rome. Times, Sunday Times
This was the heavily carved baroque side table with its armorial shield that still stands in the main hall.
Clothing patterns became very elaborate as did hats and by the Baroque and Rococo eras hats and hairpieces were monumental in stature and elaborateness. When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson
Go from the acoustic response of a baroque concert hall to that of a 10,000-seat arena or a gothic cathedral with the push of a button.
Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
There's something mad-scientist / hare-brained baroque about it.
Its multicoloured and multi-towered Byzantine roof dominates the skyline, and its baroque beauty is simply breathtaking.
Finally, it will be hard to resist Company XIV Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures, a wildly improbable mix of baroque ballet, commedia dell'arte, street dance and Fellini-esque surrealism that re-invents the familiar fairytale. This week's new dance
The epilepsy, Mr. Fiennes explains, had left lesions on Richard's brain that even a baroque array of anti-convulsant medications could not change. Within The Castle Walls
It took the crew of 8,000 workers 14 months to finish the building, an architectural Frankenstein that combines elements of Art Deco, Baroque, Spanish colonial and Latin American criollo styles. PHOTOS: Cuba's Hotel Nacional Turns 80
With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone. George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes
The series comes to a climax in three largo reliefs from 1966 that feature baroque, curved sections forming irregular billowing masses.
Above all, perhaps, it confirmed its composer's repossession of the baroque in its regular harmonic movement.
The suites boast all the usual services (such as minibar, complimentary internet, anti-allergic floor and carpets), but the rooms are furnished differently, with outstanding pieces of the ultra-baroque sophistication. PR.com Press Releases
Researcher Maria Teresa Suarez, author of the book The Case of the Organ in New Spain During the Baroque, published by the National Center of Investigation, Documentation and Information (CENIDIM) and Carlos Chavez of the CNCA, indicated that the documental richness of the material discovered during the study of European organs substantiates the case for New Spain which suffers from a great shortage of data and is known to have had many destroyed. Pipe Organs in Guanajuato
Otherwise, they're big and feisty, baroque in the manner that has come to be de rigueur.
The reception, to the rear of the ground floor hall space, is all white with one purple wall to create a slightly softer and more welcoming space than the daringly dark remainder of the scheme, with white desking and a giant mirror on the chimney breast; a contemporary take on a baroque frame in opaque acrylic. Manchester Square Interior by SHH
A great night in Spain's party central could start with a transvestite dinner and floor show – just like an Almodóvar movie daaahling – at Gula Gula (gulagula.net) on Gran Via before you dance the hot night away (Madrileños rarely go out before midnight) under the frescoed baroque walls of 19th-century Palacio de Gaviria (palaciogaviria.com), now a club, on Calle Arenal. Alternative hen, stag and honeymoon destinations
Early eighteenth century baroque composer Vivaldi was a trained priest who had music in his heart.
the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church
Though lucid in her natural voice, she lapses from time to time into baroque academese. The Times Literary Supplement
A pupil of Domenichino, he was most in sympathy with classical art, but he also appreciated the Baroque, and enriched his narratives with anecdote and vivid detail.
Or jeans 'chemically distressed in ways that suggested baroquely improbable patterns of wear'. The Times Literary Supplement
The programme will include baroque concertos by Vivaldi, Bach and many more.
He renounced the joyful individuality seen in early Swedish baroque and tried instead to turn the whole of the country into his own Città ideale.
The city was gloriously clean, its classical columns and pediments and its baroque scrolls and volutes now clearly delineated by the shadows cast by an oblique sun on their pale surfaces.
Baroque opera doesn't get more star-studded. Times, Sunday Times
Lewis did indeed tend to lean toward concepts that were prevalent in classical music and had rarely been translated into jazz terms, like fugal form and baroque counterpoint, and he also made his music seem more formal by naming many of his compositions after European cities—"Milano," "Afternoon in Venice," "A Day in Dubrovnik. The Modern Sounds of Yore
It's either some unlistenable Czech serialist, or some unknown Baroque clavichordist.
In the process, he makes a vigorous case for what he calls the ‘aggressive modernity’ of the Baroque culture of the Spanish-American viceroyalties.
The font was inspired by the Baroque style, which was noted for its symmetry and flamboyance.
(Your point about the Italian baroque is spot on — although being my perverse self, I listen to Vivaldi and Scarlatti hanging on for the proto-Expressionist moments.) The Long Goodbye
Baroque music poured through double-height french windows on to the sunlit terrace. Times, Sunday Times
As you walk along narrow alleys, there is a chance that you will see a door and behind it a gondola, or a harpsichord, a fresco or a baroque orchestra rehearsing for an evening concert.
The term polyphony is sometimes used synonomously with counterpoint, and sometimes to distinguish medeival multi-voice music from that of the Renaissance and Baroque. monophonic, or consisting of only one voice, which was usually a liturgical chant. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
As a writer who since my teenaged days has had one foot in the Spanish world, that is, Spain, whose art, architecture and writing, has always included multiple highways and byways -- an innate baroqueness -- I am used to this muchness. Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware
It rises like a green baroque elfin city.
I detest recitative in its baroque continuo form.
Narrow streets, Renaissance palaces, and baroque churches give Mala Strana its present charm.
The city of spires, narrow cobbled streets and Baroque palaces is perfect for a romantic winter stroll. The Sun
These companies approach the design and construction of writing implements like Baroque artists. Times, Sunday Times
And although much of it seems static compared to the director's later work, it's also earthier, less baroque, more emotional and moving.
No painter who has been labelled ‘baroque’ has surpassed Rubens, the supreme colourist.
They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
After a stroll through the attractive gardens, members visited the baroque church with its splendid reredos from Venice and Italian wall paintings.
After albums from showy, baroque Rufus - at the Grand Opera House in York on Monday - and his heart-on-her-sleeve sister Martha, the parents are back.
It was Pete, a cellist who played in the original baroque style on a handmade replica of a Stradivarius.
He began by adding a light Baroque facade with pilasters and massive fluted columns at the main, upper tier, topped by a balustrade with vases and statues.
The funeral took place in an ornate baroque building on the outskirts of Munich. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The big band arranger supplies superbly baroque settings for Arlen's music, creating the perfect counterpoint to the classic simplicity of the "Gershwin Songbook."
The end-point of a narrative based on a world of baroque, grotesque, (post) Modern, neo-primitivist or modern archaic aesthetics are just as likely to be the "revel" or "conceptual breakthrough" Clute ascribes to Horror and SF. Archive 2008-02-01
There will be Russian orchestral repertoire with Russian orchestras and a further flavour of the baroque with Anne Sofie Von Otter and the Gabrielli Consort.
Then, quite unexpectedly, this may give way to a leafy square containing a glorious baroque church or a former palace. Times, Sunday Times
At a two-for-one price it's an even stronger must-have for lovers of outstanding and unusual baroque chamber music.
Often this effort achieves its end as baroque comedy.
Baroque opera had an allegorical purpose at the Bourbon court. Times, Sunday Times
It was a conscious construction, an amalgam of Middle Eastern melismata and rhythms, Renaissance modality, and, oddly enough, Baroque counterpoint.
Written at a time when busily contrapuntal late-baroque composition was giving way to the pared-down elegance of the emergent Classical style, Gretry's opera-comique occupies an intriguing middle ground. Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique'
Indeed, the doctrine of affect - which can be loosely defined as expressive articulation governed by stress and accentuation - was the bread and butter of baroque aesthetics.
While that kind of rhythmic systole codifies processional nobility, it is also germane to baroque performance practice, particularly in a chaconne.
Before us stretched a two-acre walled garden laid out in the geometric style of a baroque pleasance — with cone-shaped topiary, boxwood hedges, beds in tidy rows, and a shimmering lily pond. The Constant Gardener
The Baroque introduced grotesques along with the heavy ball dangling from the central shaft, anchoring detachable rows of arms that allowed the hanging fixture to mutate vertically.
The Italian-inspired architecture of the baroque period reflects a combination of religious piety and worldly opulence.
The former Labor leader never came up with abuse like that even at his most baroque.
One would expect this in something like the early Passacaglia, a contrapuntal Baroque form in which a set of variations occurs over a repeating bass.
Borrowing from J-Horror films like Ring (1998) and Pulse (2001) as well as ergodic works such as Danieleweski's House of Leaves (2000) it uses emails, blog posts, chat logs, press releases and transcribed interviews to tell the story of a baroquely shot 1920s snuff film that manages to escape its original medium. REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow
The furniture detailed in the small book is considered by connoisseurs to be the highest expression of baroque form and rococo ornament.
These images of baroque architecture remind us of the classic values and aesthetics that we tried to include in our watch collection. Times, Sunday Times
Here medieval marbled palaces and baroque churches contrast splendidly with chic cafes and boutiques. The Sun
A Baroque orchestra, he says, would have "20 violins, 10 cellos, 10 violas, but only one viola da gamba. Blurring Traditional Boundaries
For this is no platform for young British shockers; its focus is Rubens, the artist who defined the northern baroque and who, more than any other, epitomises the idea of the old master.
Consequently, Cuban furniture made during this period was quickly given foreign forms and styles such as the Queen Anne style, as well as French and Dutch baroque and rococo elements.
There are two main styles of architecture: the earlier Gothic and the later Renaissance or baroque style.
We went through a sort of baroque period, with an obsession for moreness," said Alan Koch, a principal at Taalman Koch Architecture in Los Angeles. NYT > Home Page
His baroque and intentionally abstruse periodic Latin proved extremely liable to corruption in the extensive and contaminated later manuscript tradition.
The exuberance of the carving, attributed to Rhodian sculptors, and the dramatic, illusionistic setting are characteristic of the Hellenistic baroque.
Tuck into local foods while admiring the city's gothic, renaissance and baroque architecture. The Sun
Baroque music like this requires a distinguished ensemble with virtuosi performers.
If you think baroque is all about curlicues and foofaraws, Rome is the place to learn otherwise.

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