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"The Polish connection means the Baroque. It means fabulous architecture, right? The Saint Sophia, as it stands today in Kyiv is not the same one, which was built sadly in the 11th century. It's a kind of Baroque reconstruction, and it's very beautiful."
"Baroque art was propaganda... it convinced people to obey."
"When the time came to paint his most ambitious offering in the field of royal portraiture, Velazquez adopted the usual Baroque strategy of going big. But everything else he tried here was new and revolutionary and it lifted the genre to its greatest heights."
"But when it got here to Spain, it didn't have that much adapting to do. The Spanish were already fiercely Catholic. They liked drama, emotion, passion, darkness. They were, if you like, instinctively Baroque."
"The Baroque went everywhere and basically spent the entire 17th century traveling about. And the really cunning thing about it is that wherever it went, it adopted the local customs and changed."
"His work is filled with movement and restless transformation. The Cornaro Chapel is a fusion of sculpture, painting, marbling, gilding, even the real light of God has been roped into achieving this great Baroque effect."
"The Baroque loved painted ceilings, filling the air above you and around you with remarkable sights was a very Baroque ambition."
"We began this series in Rome in front of Saint Peter's and I told you that we'd follow the Baroque from Rome to London, from Saint Peter's to Saint Paul's."
"If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it."
"Bernini embodied the Baroque, not only with his Dynamic and exuberant style, but also his focus on emotional expressionism."
"Baroque artists captured the over-the-top style of the age."
"Baroque artists even helped the faithful experience the miraculous depicting otherworldly visions in a believable down-to-earth way."
"Palaces of this age feature grandiose architecture with decoration that abhors a straight line and is full of motion."
"There are those who love the exuberance, the drama, the sheer restless energy of certain baroque buildings which really can just blow you away with their virtuoso appearance."
"It's recognizable by the exuberance of the style, the ornament, the decoration, and the theatricality of it."
"...let's go more extreme, let's be more intense, more gold, more incense, more sculpture..."
"...the Baroque felt that harmony was derived from pure perfect number, and the Baroque felt that similar to the painting..."
"...it's all about that moment of transition, and it's about movement..."
"...designed to sort of blow your mind effectively."
"...it's almost like the repeated chords of a baroque piece of music..."
"highly original baroque architect his architect really has architecture has no precedent in in Rome but it has the the spirit of baroque in that it's theatrical."
"the probably most significant baroque architect was James Gibbs and he was a Scottish Catholic which didn't help his career that much given there was a huge prejudice against Catholics at the time."
"Such an elegant opening, that presence is very baroque era, very very bold and beautiful and embellished."
"Hovanus's writing was so triatic that he used figured bass notation sometimes as a tool for sketching out his works."
"Visit the Holy Trinity column A UNESCO world heritage site and one of the largest Baroque sculptures in Europe."
"The gilded rays and plethora of angels and cherubs resting on clouds also exemplifies the Baroque idea of extended action across space."
"Other art movements sit there on their pedestals and arrogantly assume you'll be interested in them, but the Baroque knows you better; it gets off the pedestal and hunts you down."
"The Baroque would arrive on the doorstep of most of the known world and become the first truly global art movement."
"All recorded in one Baroque tornado of a composition."
"The Baroque spread across Europe like a wildfire."
"The greatest Dutch painter of them all, Rembrandt, was a classic Baroque hero: intense, dramatic, and ambiguous."
"The Baroque was the first truly international art movement."
"We are just on the cusp of that, the point at which an elaborate self-conscious classicism is about to spill over into something more like the Baroque."
"This period of political and financial decline coincided with the zenith of Spanish Baroque culture."
"Gentileschi's Judith Beheading Holofernes is an excellent example of the Baroque idea of theatricality."
"ESFPs are vivacious and appreciate the finer things; baroque's ornate and luxurious style aligns with ESFP's love for drama and aesthetic richness."
"The Baroque got here all right, indeed it did great things here."
"The Baroque built big because big things have a big impact."
"It dazzled you with its illusions and caught you up in its psychology."
"The triumph of art over nature is a baroque topic that appears once and again throughout Part II."
"Baroque Opera is a stylistic medium all of its own, and it's wonderful."
"I like a lot of the Baroque stuff; I just like classical guitar really."
"The embracing oval arms of Bernini's colonnade."
"You can see what I mean by defining these as Baroque buildings already in Roman Antiquity."
"The perfection of the king is a notion of royal power or baroque soft power."
"This exuberant masterpiece of Baroque sculpture was created by a local artist in the second half of the 17th century."
"Certainly once I got it working, it made a big difference to a lot of my repertoire because I think it made some of my Baroque music sound maybe different from some other people."
"Zorn palette is like a shorthand way to describe a synthesis of a very baroque palette."
"Much like Baroque architecture, these shapes seem extra, perhaps even decorative; they're not needed to survive, they are simply beautiful."
"The Baroque era was a really weird time of music history."
"It's called a 'figuration prelude'—a Baroque genre in which a composer takes some chord progression and then brings it to life."
"The Baroque Masterpiece of the Basilica is the Chair of St. Peter."
"Fugues were, and still are, sort of the vehicle by which composers prove their creativity."