The 17th century was the era of the Baroque, a style bringing passion, colour and drama to painting, sculpture, architecture ...

Lasting for 150 years, the Baroque period of architecture, music, and art influenced churches, palaces, mansions, and civic structures across the globe. Examples of Baroque architecture include ...

A joint effort by academic researchers, professional art restorers and experts from the public sector and companies has resulted in the discovery of works of art, artists and documents from the São ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist paintings for similar reasons. (Zeuxis was in competition with Parrhasius, whose painting was enigmatically curtained. Zeuxis was defeated when he tried ...