baroque
IPA: bɝˈoʊk
Root Word: Baroque
noun
- (art, music) A period in western architecture, art and music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.
- The chess variant invented in 1962 by mathematician Robert Abbott, or any of its descendants, where pieces move alike, but have differing methods of capture.
- An ornate, detailed style.
adjective
- (art, music) From or characteristic of the Baroque period.
- Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
- Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
- Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
- Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
- Characteristic of Western art and music of the Early Modern period.
- (figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
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Examples of "baroque" in Sentences
- The building is in the Cuban Baroque style.
- She specializes in the music of the Baroque.
- It was done in the baroque style of the Markgraves.
- The structure underwent modifications in the Baroque style.
- The architecture of the building is mixed baroque and oriental.
- The facades of the building is in style Baroque and Renaissance.
- His expressive canvases straddle the styles of Mannerism and Baroque.
- In the years 1701 to 1713 the spire was revamped in the baroque style.
- The arch is made of sandstone in Baroque style with geometric fretwork.
- One of the masters in the style of baroque improvisation was Glenn Gould.
- Since then the term baroque occurs in English scholarship more frequently.
- The word "baroque" comes from the Italian word "barocco" which means bizarre.
- That reminds him of the word baroque, barrack, bark, poodle, Suzanne R. -- he's off to the races.
- The costumes I did see were quite fun, from women in baroque dresses (complete with ship on the hair) to steampunk farmers and the Joker.
- In 1934 F.W. Bateson published his little book, English Poetry and the English Language (Oxford [1934], pp. 76-77), where he applied the term baroque even to Thomson,
- (Your point about the Italian baroque is spot on — although being my perverse self, I listen to Vivaldi and Scarlatti hanging on for the proto-Expressionist moments.)
- After lunch, Charlie Stross discussed his interest in baroque technology – especially the US and Soviet attempts at wiping each other out – and the publishing industry.
- The term baroque seems, however, most acceptable if we have in mind a general European movement whose conven - tions and literary style can be described concretely and whose chronological limits can be fixed narrowly, as from the last decades of the sixteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century in a few countries.