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2. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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   Baroque acanthuses on a commode, by André-Charles Boulle, c.1710–1720, walnut veneered with ebony, marquetry of engraved brass and tortoiseshell, and gilt-bronze mounts, Metropolitan Museum of Art Baroque mascaron with acanthuses in the Salon d'Hercule , 1724–1736, designed by Robert de Cotte , Jacques Gabriel

3. Baroque - Wikipedia

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   The Baroque (UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -⁠ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [ 1 ] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as ...

4. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey (Wilhering, Austria), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

5. Rococo - Wikipedia

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   Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ r ə ˈ k oʊ k oʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌ r oʊ k ə ˈ k oʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: or ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and ...

6. Baroque garden - Wikipedia

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   Terrace of the Orangerie, Palace of Versailles (1684). The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature. The style originated in the late-16th century in Italy, in the gardens of the Vatican and the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome and in the gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, and then spread to France, where it became known as the ...

7. Italian Baroque - Wikipedia

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   Italian Baroque. The Church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Italian Baroque (or Barocco) is a stylistic period in Italian history and art that spanned from the late 16th century to the early 18th century.