Lasting for 150 years, the Baroque period of architecture, music, and art influenced churches, palaces ... a New York City-based architect and historian. Many of the characteristics of the Baroque ...

and the result in art was the development of the baroque style. This style, with the modifications that resulted from resistance to it, defined the art of the age. We’ll explore the works of a range ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

Dramatic and ornamental – but with a distinctly Sarmatian flair – the baroque became a prominent style in Polish culture between the early 17th and mid-18th century. Its roots lay in the traditions of ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Her face is rather wan as she emerges from a dark background, typical of Baroque portraits. Scipione Borghese—who preferred emotion in art over the cold, at times perverse, academicism of ...

The retrospective devoted to Tom Wesselmann and his contemporaries at the Parisian institution revisits the history of a ...

Venerated today as a co-inventor of Cubism, which he developed in spirited competition with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Gris is widely celebrated for pioneering a new kind of art.

Identify the defining characteristics of major styles, historical periods, and artists in the history of art; Analyze basic methodologies of art historical investigation and apply them to their own ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...