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1 day ago · France - Baroque, Enlightenment, Revolution: If historians are not yet agreed on the political motives of Louis XIV, they all accept, however, the cultural and artistic significance of the epoch over which he and his two 17th-century predecessors reigned.
2 days ago · George Frideric Handel - Composer, Baroque, Oratorio: The first basis of Handel’s style was the north German music of his childhood, but it was soon completely overlaid by the Italian style that he acquired in early adulthood during his travels in Italy.
- Charles Cudworth
4 days ago · Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, who was a major follower of the revolutionary Baroque painter Caravaggio. She was an important second-generation proponent of Caravaggio’s dramatic realism.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.
3 days ago · The death of a father in Baroque times was particularly impactful, as the father-son relationship was the primary means by which young men were either trained for their future careers or introduced to masters with whom they might apprentice. Sadly, by age eleven, his mother succumbed to the plague, as well, leaving Caravaggio an orphan.
5 days ago · The Baroque Period (AD 1600–1750) The Baroque Era was the dominant style during the years 1600–1750. Perhaps its most distinctive feature is the use of dense polyphony, where multiple complex melodies weave in and out of each other to impressive effect.
1 day ago · The chapel is rectangular with a semicircular apse, combining traditional, Gothic royal French church architecture with the French Baroque style of Versailles. The ceiling of the chapel is constituted by an unbroken vault, divided into three frescos by Antoine Coypel, Charles de La Fosse, and Jean Jouvenet.
