The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A number of forms were developed in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Structures in the Renaissance period were mainly based on the text being used. Religious music was written to be sung by ...

Many churches were built throughout the country. Four of them were inscribed as World Heritage in 1993. The churches have survived several earthquakes and wars, and are known as "Earthquake Baroque" ...

February 7, 2024 • Award-winning musician Shawn Okpebholo earned his degrees at the prestigious University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. But he credits his start in music to The ...

Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, perform Handel’s “Water Music” along the Chicago River from their “stage” atop a moving Shoreline tour boat.

In their pursuit of a visual language suited to modern times, the Cubists recapitulated some of the greatest tricks of Baroque trompe l’oeil. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Still life ...

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history. By Patricia Leigh Brown In Brandon Ndife’s otherworldly ...