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 baroque era was a 150 year period in history – 1600 until 1750 – and it included musicians like George Frideric Handel, as well as other composers of their time such as Frenchwoman ...
Now confident of the Queen City's taste for early music, particularly of the baroque era (roughly 1600 to 1750), Milnes has launched the first-ever Burlington Baroque Festival. Starting Thursday ...
“Starting in 1607 with Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo and ending in 1759 with the death of the great ‘English’ composer Handel, the Baroque period produced great music of brilliance and ...