Baroque
adjective
Relating to a style of European architecture, music, and art in 17th and 18th century that is grand and detailed.
The church was built in the baroque style, with many complex carvings.
Often appears as...
- baroque architecture
- baroque music
noun
The Baroque period or the style of art, architecture and music which was popular in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century.
The choir is performing a piece of music from the baroque.
Often appears as...
- during the baroque
- the baroque era
adjective
Very ornate and elaborate.
She prefers baroque designs to simple, clean lines.
Often appears as...
- baroque design
- baroque decor
adjective
Relating to a style of European architecture, music, and art in 17th and 18th century that is grand and detailed.
The church was built in the baroque style, with many complex carvings.
Often appears as...
- baroque architecture
- baroque music
noun
The Baroque period or the style of art, architecture and music which was popular in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century.
The choir is performing a piece of music from the baroque.
Often appears as...
- during the baroque
- the baroque era
adjective
Very ornate and elaborate.
She prefers baroque designs to simple, clean lines.
Often appears as...
- baroque design
- baroque decor
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Pro Tip 1/3Architecture Focus
Use 'baroque' to describe grand buildings or structures with elaborate decorations from Europe’s 1600s-1700s.
Tourists visit Paris to admire the baroque architecture.
Pro Tip 2/3Art and Music
'Baroque' also applies to detailed art and dramatic music of the same era, often featuring intricate patterns.
Bach's compositions are quintessential baroque music.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Understanding 'baroque' helps in discussing historical European culture, often implying grandeur and extravagance.
That film captured the essence of the baroque lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/3Architecture Focus
Use 'baroque' to describe grand buildings or structures with elaborate decorations from Europe’s 1600s-1700s.
Tourists visit Paris to admire the baroque architecture.
Pro Tip 2/3Art and Music
'Baroque' also applies to detailed art and dramatic music of the same era, often featuring intricate patterns.
Bach's compositions are quintessential baroque music.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Understanding 'baroque' helps in discussing historical European culture, often implying grandeur and extravagance.
That film captured the essence of the baroque lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/3Architecture Focus
Use 'baroque' to describe grand buildings or structures with elaborate decorations from Europe’s 1600s-1700s.
Tourists visit Paris to admire the baroque architecture.
Pro Tip 2/3Art and Music
'Baroque' also applies to detailed art and dramatic music of the same era, often featuring intricate patterns.
Bach's compositions are quintessential baroque music.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Reference
Understanding 'baroque' helps in discussing historical European culture, often implying grandeur and extravagance.
That film captured the essence of the baroque lifestyle.
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The nightmare videos of...
There's millions and millions of these videos in increasingly baroque combinations of brands and materials, and there's more and more of them being uploaded every single day. Like, this is a strange world. Right? But the thing is, it's not adults who are watching these videos. It's kids, small children.
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Wade Davis: The...
on what was clearly the most extraordinary trip of my life. These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome. They consume more coca leaves than any human population, half a pound per man, per day.
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
lined with baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity. It doesn't create the distortion of reality; it creates the dissolution of reality. In fact, I used to argue with my professor, Richard Evan Shultes -- who is a man who sparked the psychedelic era
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The illusion of...
That reminds him of the word baroque, barrack, bark, poodle, Suzanne R. -- he's off to the races. There's a wonderful stream of consciousness here and if you follow it along, you learn a lot about this man. What I particularly like about this picture, too,
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Marian Bantjes:...
And these were created without sketches, just freehand, by putting the sugar down on a white surface and then manipulating it to get the words and designs out of it. Recently, I've also made some rather highbrow baroque borders out of lowbrow pasta.
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Benoit Mandelbrot:...
This comes out repeatedly, again, again, again. And that was one of my major discoveries, to find that these islands were the same as the whole big thing, more or less. And then you get these extraordinary baroque decorations all over the place.
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The violin, and my dark...
"Baroque in Rock," which became a golden disc most recently. It's such an honor for me. I think, while I'm enjoying my life as a happy musician, I'm earning a lot more recognition than I've ever imagined.
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Journey Into Old...
the museo de la ciudad housed in a baroque palace on Havana's original town square even with international recognition the work of preserving the historic city centre remains ongoing
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Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
matter of a few week every hairstyle that's been tried out in human society is sported on top of would be albatrosses from baroque to rockabilly from Punk to crew-cut but no matter
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An Island On the Brink...
teleport a baroque thought that if he could figure out how to get trees in the ground in Pemba that he might be able to
Video examples
The nightmare videos of...
There's millions and millions of these videos in increasingly baroque combinations of brands and materials, and there's more and more of them being uploaded every single day. Like, this is a strange world. Right? But the thing is, it's not adults who are watching these videos. It's kids, small children.
Video examples
Wade Davis: The...
on what was clearly the most extraordinary trip of my life. These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome. They consume more coca leaves than any human population, half a pound per man, per day.
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
lined with baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity. It doesn't create the distortion of reality; it creates the dissolution of reality. In fact, I used to argue with my professor, Richard Evan Shultes -- who is a man who sparked the psychedelic era
Video examples
The illusion of...
That reminds him of the word baroque, barrack, bark, poodle, Suzanne R. -- he's off to the races. There's a wonderful stream of consciousness here and if you follow it along, you learn a lot about this man. What I particularly like about this picture, too,
Video examples
Marian Bantjes:...
And these were created without sketches, just freehand, by putting the sugar down on a white surface and then manipulating it to get the words and designs out of it. Recently, I've also made some rather highbrow baroque borders out of lowbrow pasta.
Video examples
Benoit Mandelbrot:...
This comes out repeatedly, again, again, again. And that was one of my major discoveries, to find that these islands were the same as the whole big thing, more or less. And then you get these extraordinary baroque decorations all over the place.
Video examples
The violin, and my dark...
"Baroque in Rock," which became a golden disc most recently. It's such an honor for me. I think, while I'm enjoying my life as a happy musician, I'm earning a lot more recognition than I've ever imagined.
Video examples
Journey Into Old...
the museo de la ciudad housed in a baroque palace on Havana's original town square even with international recognition the work of preserving the historic city centre remains ongoing
Video examples
Wings of the Albatross PIPE...
matter of a few week every hairstyle that's been tried out in human society is sported on top of would be albatrosses from baroque to rockabilly from Punk to crew-cut but no matter
Video examples
An Island On the Brink...
teleport a baroque thought that if he could figure out how to get trees in the ground in Pemba that he might be able to
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Quote examples
Jerry Lee Lewis
American Musician
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
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Juan Diego Florez
Peruvian Musician
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
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Kemp Muhl
American Singer
The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and a banjo solo on a song about white noise - that's our sense of humor.
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Juan Goytisolo
Spanish Poet
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
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Yvette Mimieux
American Actress
I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.
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Roger Allam
English Actor
It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!
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Zadie Smith
British Novelist
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
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Jan Garbarek
Norwegian Musician
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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Denis Norden
English Writer
If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.
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Weyes Blood
American Musician
I like baroque things.
Quote examples
Jerry Lee Lewis
American Musician
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
Quote examples
Juan Diego Florez
Peruvian Musician
I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.
Quote examples
Kemp Muhl
American Singer
The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and a banjo solo on a song about white noise - that's our sense of humor.
Quote examples
Juan Goytisolo
Spanish Poet
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
Quote examples
Yvette Mimieux
American Actress
I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.
Quote examples
Roger Allam
English Actor
It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!
Quote examples
Zadie Smith
British Novelist
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
Quote examples
Jan Garbarek
Norwegian Musician
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Quote examples
Denis Norden
English Writer
If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.
Quote examples
Weyes Blood
American Musician
I like baroque things.
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