The Baroque style of the 17th and early 18th centuries produced some of the most dramatic art in Western civilisation. Examining this era, Culture Fix dissects the work of artists such as ...

Coming later in history, Cubism confronted a reality altogether unlike the age of Baroque. Through industrialization, artifice was compounded, becoming both foreground and background, an all ...

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 ...