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  2. Spanish Baroque literature - Wikipedia

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    Works from don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, 1699. Spanish Baroque literature is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque, which occurred during the 17th century in which prose writers such as Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, or the poetic production of the aforementioned ...

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    A 16th-century movement and style that emerged in the later Italian High Renaissance. Mannerism in literature is notable for its elegant, highly florid style and intellectual sophistication [2] [4] [5] Michelangelo, Clément Marot, Giovanni della Casa, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Torquato Tasso, Veronica Franco, Miguel de Cervantes: Petrarchism

  4. Conceptismo - Wikipedia

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    Conceptismo (literally, conceptism) is a literary movement of the Baroque period in the Spanish literature. It began in the late 16th century and lasted through the 17th century, also the period of the Spanish Golden Age. Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, the most significant representative of Baroque conceptismo Baltasar Gracián

  5. Spanish mystics - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being examples of Christian holiness and major Spanish literary figures, the Spanish Mystics were also real reformers in the Church. Their writings inspired a religious quest for God based on desire rather than obligation and medieval legalism, and three of them went on to found or reform religious orders that would carry on ...

  6. Baroque - Wikipedia

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    Poussin and de La Tour adopted a "classical" Baroque style with less focus on emotion and greater attention to the line of the figures in the painting than to colour. Peter Paul Rubens was the most important painter of the Flemish Baroque style. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.

  7. Italian Baroque - Wikipedia

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    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. History [ edit ]

  8. Plain style in literature - Wikipedia

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    The core values of the plain style in literature are "clarity, brevity and sincerity...". [1] emphasising the dichotomous language forms and features between the plain style and the Baroque style, also referred to as the 'high style', in the English language. The plain style has been recorded in use from as early as the 17th century by ...

  9. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    The Baroque style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. The Baroque is characterized by the following points: