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Baroque art was used to teach the dogmas of the Catholic Chuch

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The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.

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About the Baroque Period. Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750.

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The Calling of Saint Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to follow him.

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Catholic-inspired Baroque art tended to be large-scale works of public art, such as monumental wall-paintings and huge frescoes for the ceilings and vaults of palaces and churches.

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Artists like Caravaggio turned to a powerful and dramatic realism

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Baroque architecture emerges first in Italy, a land favored by an enviable confluence of forces that fostered cultural renewal and reinvention for centuries.  And if Florence is the ideal city of the Renaissance, then Rome is the ideal city of the Baroque,

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Rococo malta

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The French word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word "barroco" or Spanish "barrueco" both of which refer to a "rough or imperfect pearl", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain

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The later part of the baroque period is often called rococo.

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he Baroque (US /bəˈroʊk/ or UK /bəˈrɒk/) is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music.

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Baroque art and architecture, the visual arts and building design and construction produced during the era in the history of western art.

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The Baroque era is sometimes divided into roughly three phases

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About the Baroque Period. Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenthcentury to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750.

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A period in the arts, visual and musical, from about 1600to about 1750, marked by elaborate ornamentation Onda efforts to create dramatic effects.

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Sir Peter Paul Ruben's Daniel and the Lions Den. Biblical Painting

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens Daniel in the Lions Den

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The Swiss-born art historian, Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945), started the rehabilitation of the word Baroque in his Renaissance und Barock (1888); Wölfflin identified the Baroque as "movement imported into mass", an art antithetic to Renaissance art.

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One of the most prominent baroque artists is Caravaggio. He was famous with The Calling of St. Matthews. He came from Italy.

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This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to.

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Baroque artists generally had access to more types of pigment and more types of stone in part because the 17th century saw an increase in trade and colonization around the world.

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About the Baroque Period. Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750.

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The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music.

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Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,”
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