Crossword clues for baroque
baroque
- Highly decorated
- Overly ornate
- Highly ornate
- Ornate style
- Artistic style
- Like Bach's musical style
- Overdone, in a way
- Like Handel's music
- Embellished style
- Bach's style
- Suggesting Bach
- Period in which the oboe d'amour was common
- Overly complex
- Like Scarlatti's music
- Descriptor for Bach's works
- Bernini's genre
- Bachs style
- Bach's genre
- Highly embellished style
- Busy
- Very busy
- Like the works of Handel and Bach
- Really involved
- Ornate architectural style
- Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
- Very ornate
- Architecture style
- Extravagantly ornate
- Scarlatti's style
- Rococo
- With elaborate ornamentation
- Ship carrying nothing ornate
- Sailing ship carrying nothing ornate
- Art style
- Architectural style
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baroque \Ba*roque"\, a. [F.; cf. It. barocco.] (Arch.)
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.
Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.
Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1765, from French baroque (15c.) "irregular," from Portuguese barroco "imperfect pearl," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Spanish berruca "a wart."This style in decorations got the epithet of Barroque taste, derived from a word signifying pearls and teeth of unequal size. [Fuseli's translation of Winkelmann, 1765]Klein suggests the name may be from Italian painter Federigo Barocci (1528-1612), a founder of the style. How to tell baroque from rococo, according to Fowler: "The characteristics of baroque are grandeur, pomposity, and weight; those of rococo are inconsequence, grace, and lightness." But the two terms often used without distinction for styles featuring odd and excessive ornamentation.
Wiktionary
a. 1 ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. 2 complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. 3 chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. 4 embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
WordNet
adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells [syn: churrigueresque, churrigueresco]
n. elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century [syn: baroqueness]
Wikipedia
The Baroque ( or ) 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. The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread to most of Europe.
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. The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumph, power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence. However, "baroque" has resonance and application that extend beyond a simple reduction to either style or period.
The Baroque period was from the 17th century.
Baroque may also refer to:
- Of the Baroque period:
- Baroque architecture
- Baroque music
- Baroque painting
- Baroque sculpture
- Baroque pearl, a pearl of an irregular shape
- Baroque (grape), a French wine grape
Baroque (often spelled Barroque) is a white French wine grape planted primarily in South West France around the Tursan region. It can make full bodied wines with nutty flavors. Ampelographers suspect that the grape maybe a crossing of Folle Blanche (which it shares the synonym Bordeleza zuria with) and Sauvignon blanc.
Baroque (stylized as BAROQUE and previously as baroque) is a Japanese rock band originally formed in 2001. Originally signed to S'Cube, a sub-division of the independent record label Free-Will, the band later switched to the company's Firewall Division, with distribution handled by Sony Music Entertainment Japan. After releasing two albums, along with a greatest hits compilation, several singles and home video releases, baroque disbanded in 2004.
They became the newest band to play at the prestigious Nippon Budokan after just two years and three months into their career. They have also been credited as one of the bands that started oshare kei, a subgenre of visual kei that features more colorful outfits and utilizes upbeat and "happy" music.
baroque reunited for a free concert in 2011 and fully restarted activities in January 2012. That same month, baroque became the first independent band to have three of the top five positions on Oricon's main chart. However, bassist Bansaku left the group several months later and guitarist Akira followed in 2013, leaving only the duo of vocalist ryo and guitarist Kei.
Baroque (バロック Barokku) is a role-playing video game developed by and published Sting Entertainment, released in Japan for the Sega Saturn on May 21, 1998. It was ported for PlayStation on October 28, 1999, also released only in Japan. A remake version was for PlayStation 2 and Wii and was released in June 28, 2008 and March 13, 2008, respectively. Atlus announced that they would release the game in North America and was scheduled for release in the United States on March 18, 2008 for the PlayStation 2 and Wii. Atlus USA eventually released both versions of the game on April 8, 2008. On December 28, 2012, Sting released it for the Apple iOS platform. Rising Star Games released in Europe on July 18, 2008 for PS2 and August 22, 2008 for the Wii.
Usage examples of "baroque".
He alluded to the baroque amatory practices of the Third-Level Illyalla people, and soothed himself, in the classical Dar-Halma tongue, with one of those rambling genealogical insults favored in the Indo-Turanian Sector of the Fourth Level.
Its face was an antique white analogue clock with spider-thin baroque hands and the hours marked off in Roman numerals.
She pursues doggedlythe rococo, the classical homophonic reaction against the Spent baroque.
Dangling from her ears were baroque pearls and, tight about her throat, a single strand of well-matched pearls that stole the heat from her flesh and glowed mellowly white-grey-cream.
Brothers and nephews and grand-uncles took to practicing together, under the baton and guidance of the reigning Munk, and over the following decades the all-male Szondi Symphonic Philharmonic, not to mention the numerous Szondi baroque ensembles, became as famous in the musical circles of central Europe as the all-female House of Szondi had become in the world of banking.
Better to succeed unnoticed at a classic than fail ignominiously at the snazzy baroque of hip-hop.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Phlosine nor Dominique had the slightest interest in the murder of Hesione LeGros and were instead consumed with questions and gossip concerning the baroque details of the Avocet scandal.
He was sort of surprised, when she led him into her well-lit Spanish Baroque front parlor, to see that she was a Junoesque gal old enough to have a streak of silver in her black braided hair, and that she looked more Indian than full-blooded Kinipai had.
An old seedcompany calendar from Monterrey was nailed to the wall above them and in the corner stood an empty wire birdcage hung from a floorpedestal like some baroque lampstand.
Not many pearls, mostly small baroque, but we still have the deck cargo to open.
The head-ends of the tanks protruded a couple of feet from their shoulder-height plyboard cubicles, like stupidly baroque brass coffins covered with cheap decorative detail.
It was famous for its universities, its medical centers -- most Poulsen treatments were administered there for the Web citizens who could afford it -- its baroque architecture -- especially beautiful in its mountain fortress, Keep Enable -- and its industrial output.
To enjoy Vance, you have to enjoy words as sculpture on paper, reality as a baroque landscape, and sardonicism for its own elegance.
Caroline is on the verge of screaming, Talk to me, God damn it, talk or let me go--but Scottie is admiring the baroque wing of the architectural folly.