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

As the high humanism of the Renaissance began to fade, a new religious intensity came into being with the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the result in art was the ...

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 ...

At the far end of the room lies the Eastman Italian Baroque Organ, the only full-sized Italian Baroque organ in the Western ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The baroque era was a 150 year period in history – 1600 until 1750 – and it included musicians like George Frideric Handel, ...

Each possesses its distinctive characteristics ... Barcelona's Catalonian art museums and the architectural wonder of the ...