The Baroque style was popular in Germany, Italy, and France from 1600 to around 1750. ... It developed from the Renaissance styles of France and Italy, making its first appearance in Rome around 1600. ... At first the architects came from Italy, but soon native architects came to dominate the field. ... In literature the Baroque style is characterized by extravagance in imagination, and extensive use of metaphor, with the Italian, Torquato Tasso being a name still known today. ... The Baroque had a big impact on painting in Italy, the Low Countries, France, England, and Spai...

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This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ... The Renaissance had many iconic composers such as John Dunstable (1390-1453). ... Du Fay drew on French and Italian styles; some of this can be seen in his smooth vocal melodies, melismas, and meter changes that were similar to that of the ritornello in the Italian Madrigal. ... Text was largely important in both the Renaissance and Baroque periods but the manner in which they were used var...

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The gallery label in the museum provided important objective information about the piece including the fact that the piece was created through the commission of Cardinal Giacomo Serra, the papal legate to Ferrara (city in northern Italy). ... For example pre-renaissance elements of composition are inherently divergent than those of the Baroque period, just as the styles used in the Italian Renaissance are notably different than those in Germany during the Northern Renaissance. Taking into account all of the stylistic and compositional elements that appear in the piece, Samson Captured by the P...

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Van Veen was also a member of the Romanists, a group of Flemish painters who studied in Italy. This group brought the influences of Renaissance painters such as Michelangelo and Raphael into their paintings. ... Then, they traveled to Mantua where Rubens was hired to re-create copies of Renaissance paintings. ... Rubens influence spread to Italy into the High and Late Baroque paintings and in Spain upon Velazquez. During his life, he achieved so much that he was said to embody the Baroque fulfillment of a Renaissance man. ...

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Another good example of this is Museo Civico, Turn, and Italy. ... This picture was painted in 1740, depicting an opera performed at the Teatro Reale in Turin, which is known today as present-day northern Italy. ... The art typically was done by the Baroque artists at the moment the action was occurring, which is different from the Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an even took place. ...

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He spent years in Italy creating his works and finally returned to Antwerp when his mother died in 1608. ... Rubens was very much influenced by the artists of northern Europe of his time so he traveled to Italy where it happened to be the center of art at that period. ... There, for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. ... When he left Italy to return to Flanders he was considered one of the greatest because of his use of baroque style. ...

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Choral Music of the Baroque Era The baroque style of music was different than its predecessor the renaissance period, because music during the renaissance period was sung in the a cappella choral style, while in the baroque era instruments played a huge role. ... There were two Italian artists who began creating in this style. ... One of his works, Supper at Emmaus, was famous because his characters tool part of an event in a run down Italian inn. ...

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The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate forms; the strongly Roman Catholic countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, Bohemia, Southern Germany, Poland and Austria) tended toward freer and more active architectural forms and surfaces ; in Protestant regions (England, Netherlands, Northern Europe) architecture was more restrained and developed a sober, quiet monumentality impressive in its refinement. ... In painting and sculpture this was achieved by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism, usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating an unequaled sense of the...

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