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  2. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    Baroque – 1600 – 1730, began in Rome Dutch Golden Age painting – 1585 ... Most modern art movements were international in scope. Impressionism – 1860 ...

  3. Baroque painting - Wikipedia

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    As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring: Michelangelo, working in the High Renaissance, shows his David composed and still before he battles Goliath; Bernini's Baroque David is caught in the act of hurling ...

  4. Venn diagram - Wikipedia

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    A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science.

  5. Baroque - Wikipedia

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    The Swiss-born art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) started the rehabilitation of the word Baroque in his Renaissance und Barock (1888); Wölfflin identified the Baroque as "movement imported into mass", an art antithetic to Renaissance art. He did not make the distinctions between Mannerism and Baroque that modern writers do, and he ...

  6. Square of opposition - Wikipedia

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    In modern logic, this is not assumed so the faded ones do not hold. (There can be no element in the faded red areas in the modern logic.) Depiction from the 15th century. In term logic (a branch of philosophical logic), the square of opposition is a diagram representing the relations between the four basic categorical propositions.

  7. Timeline of Italian architecture - Wikipedia

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    With an elaborate, powerful and austere facade and rich decorations, it was seen as a prototype for Italian Baroque architecture and is regarded as one of the first buildings in the Baroque style. [2] 1508–80 – Andrea Palladio and his Palladian villas are constructed all over the Veneto.

  8. Italian Baroque - Wikipedia

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    Stucco became one of the overall key characteristics of Baroque interiors, enhancing wall spaces, niches, and ceilings. It was the reverence for the church that provided funding for more and more building projects which, in turn, brought even more worshipers into the city –as many as five times the permanent population during a Holy Year .

  9. History of architecture - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and other post-medieval styles use putti (chubby baby angels) much more often compared to Greco-Roman art and architecture. An ornament reintroduced during the Renaissance, that was of Ancient Roman descent, that will also be used in later styles, is the cartouche , an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex ...