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- adjective (Arch.) See
baroque .
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The word "baroque" comes from the Italian word "barocco" which means bizarre.
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Derived from the Portuguese "barocco" for "irregular pearl," Baroque was comprised of many diversions from Biblically based Renaissance painting.
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier: Questions 1999
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Rome, and the general adoption of the Italian "barocco" by the Jesuits has encouraged the idea, in modern times, that there really existed a
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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From a distance, as the carriage approached it, she recognized the lordly poplars, and far at the end of the avenue the elaborately stuccoed front and cornices of the old-fashioned "barocco" building.
Taquisara 1881
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Renascence architecture of the period when the florid, 'barocco' style had not yet got the upper hand in Rome.
Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) J. Andr�� [Illustrator] Castaigne 1881
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The name, first used in the 19th century, combines the French rocaille, from the shell-embedded rocky grottoes popular in design and illustration, with the Italian barocco, the elaborate 17th-century Baroque that replaced a more restrained Renaissance classicism, to suggest a freely fluid alliance of nature and art.
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He was a muscular man with a high colour and silvery locks curling round his bald pate and over his ears, like a barocco apostle.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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Roma Sisto Quinto: arte, architetture e città fra rinascemento e barocco edited by Mario Bevilacqua et al. Edizioni de Luca, 63 pp.,
The City-Planner Pope Wills, Garry 1993
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The phrase ragioni barrochi can be documented in Italian since 1570 and apparently the Italian barocco is derived from it.
BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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Renaissance, but it came at the very end of that movement, when the freshness of its early vigour was past, when learning had declined into pedantry, and its graceful art was lost in _barocco_.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
madmouth commented on the word barocco
It. 'imperfect pearl' (see baroque and imperfect pearl)
August 6, 2009