1. According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:
Baroque
ba-roque / bə-’rōk
According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:
1. An irregularly shaped pearl.
2. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent in the 17th century that is marked generally by extravagant forms and elaborate and sometimes grotesque ornamentation and specifically also in architecture by dynamic opposition and the use of curved figures, in music by improvisation, contrasting effects and powerful tensions, and in literature by complexity of form and bizarre, ingenious and often ambiguous imagery.
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extravagant
grotesque
complexity
bizarre
ambiguous

2. Baroque
Music, art, architecture and literature became elaboratley detailed and ornamented
People of the Baroque era tended to find strength in both sides of any question

3. Baroque
“Religion was of vital importance, profoundly affecting the literature, philosophy, science, art, and music of the period. … Yet the secular side of life was also more important than ever before in the Christian era, and much Baroque art had a decidedly popular character. (Ferris, 99).

4. Baroque History 1600 Dutch opticians invent the telescope
1602 Galileo investigates laws of gravitation and oscillation
1605 Shakespeare writes King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra
1607 Jamestown, VA is founded
1606 John Milton is born
1611 King James Bible is first published
1612 Tobacco is planted in Virginia
1615 Galileo faces the Inquisition for the first time
1616 William Shakespeare dies
1618 Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed
1619 First African slaves in N. America arrive in Virginia
1620 Pilgrims arrive in America
1626 Island of Manhattan purchased from Indian chiefs for about $24.00
1631 Eng. Mathematician William Oughtred proposes symbol “X” for multiplication
1636 Harvard College is founded
1637 Japan prohibits contact with Europe
1639 First printing press in N. America
1642 Isaac Newton is born

5. Baroque History 1650 Tea is drunk in England for the first time
1652 First opera house in Vienna
1656 Rembrandt declares bankruptcy
1659 Henry Purcell is born
1660 Water closets arrive from France in England
1665 Great plague of London begins
1675 Antonio Vivaldi is born
1677 Ice cream becomes a popular dessert in Paris
1680 The Dodo bird becomes extinct
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach is born
1685 George Frederic Händel is born
1698 Metastasio is born
1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged for piracy
1703 Construction begins on Buckingham Palace
1704 First American newspaper, Boston News Letter
1706 Benjamin Franklin is born
1709 Pianoforte is invented
1719 Leopold Mozart is born

6. Baroque
Art
The Expulsion of the Money Lenders From the Marketplace, Rembrandt
Baroque artistic characteristics
Space filled with action and movement

7. Baroque Art Marriage à la Mode: The Contract, William Hogarth
Baroque artistic characteristics
Sense of Dynamics and Passion
Marriage à la Mode: The Contract,
William Hogarth

8. baroque artistic characteristics
Bust of the Savior,
Gianlorenzo Bernini
baroque artistic characteristics
Creating illusion

9. Architectural Characteristics
Baroque
Architecture
Christ Church,
London England,
1715 – 1729
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Architectural Characteristics
Twisting, curling designs
Elaborate carvings

10. Baroque Architecture Piazza di Pietra, Rome, Italy 1656 - 1667
Gianlorenzo Bernini

11. Baroque Architecture Chateau de Versailles Versailles, France
Numerous architects

12. Baroque Music Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695 Musical Characteristics
of the Baroque
Polyphonic texture
Word Painting
Contrasting dynamics
Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios)
Purcell was the leading English composer of the Baroque period.
He wrote more than 100 songs, chamber music, dramatic music, odes, some sacred songs, harpsichord suites and organ music.

13. Baroque Music Antonio Vivaldi 1678 - 1741 Musical Characteristics
of the Baroque
Polyphonic texture
Word Painting
Contrasting dynamics
Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios)
Vivaldi was the leading Italian composer of the late Baroque. He wrote 500 concertos, 50 operas, 40 Cantatas, and a great deal of church music including oratorios, motets and psalms.

14. Baroque Music J. S. Bach 1685 - 1750 Musical Characteristics
of the Baroque
Polyphonic texture
Word Painting
Contrasting dynamics
Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios)
Master of the baroque style, Bach wrote over 300 church cantatas, several masses, a magnificat, two passions, oratorios, motets, organ music, keyboard music, 6 sonatas for violin, 6 Brandenburg Concertos, and numerous other types of music.

15. Baroque Music G.F. Händel 1685 - 1759 Musical Characteristics
of the Baroque
Polyphonic texture
Word Painting
Contrasting dynamics
Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios)
Händel wrote more than 40 operas, 30 oratorios, 40 sonatas and 100 cantatas (all secular). He was the major force in English musical life during his lifetime and had a great influence on the works of Haydn.

16. Baroque Authors Rene Descartes 1596 - 1631
Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician. He believed that in all things only mathematics was certain, therefore, all knowledge must be based on mathematics.

17. Baroque Authors John Milton 1608 - 1674
English poet best known for hie epic poem Paradise Lost based on the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

18. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Baroque
Authors
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Molière left behind a body of work which not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands (1661), The School for Wives (1662), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Tartuffe (1664,1667,1669), The Miser (1668), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673).