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Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

at heart. Some speculate that because his family had been poor, becoming a priest was his only way to get an education ("Antonio V...

Piano and Harpsichord Performance

strings. The piano has a heavy iron frame, thick strings (with some wrapped wire), pedals (including a sustain pedal), and one key...

8 Styles of Painting from Baroque to Surrealism

the Baroque period is Flemish-born painter Peter Paul Rubens, whose masterpieces were an unapologetic celebration of sensual pleas...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Baroque Art

Carracci at their workshop in Bologna," and Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain came from France; in addition, Caravaggio came to ...

Architecture of England from 1700 to 1800

In five pages 18th century English architecture is discussed in a consideration of Baroque and Georgian styles with various aspect...

Baroque Artistic Period and Meaning

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

Handel, Back, Monteverdi and Josquin

of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...

The Baroque Cantatas of J.S. Bach

period saw one of the most important changes in all of music history-the "transition from the medieval church modes to major-minor...

Baroque Period Technology and Science

At the same time, there was a new found wealth to come through the newly erupting middle class ("The Baroque" 2003). It was a time...

Bernini, Michelangelo, and Donatello's Artistic Representations of David

order to provide more accurate representation of the human body. The advances in knowledge made during these years is evide...

Holland and France During the Baroque Art Period

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

Conversion of St. Paul by Caravaggio

In a paper consisting of twenty pages this painting is examined particularly in terms of the artist's use of shadow and light as w...

Contemporary Baroque and the Designs of Zaha Hadid

In twelve pages this paper examines how the designs of Zaha Hadid define contemporary Baroque of the 21st century. Ten sources ar...

French Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach and Dance Patterns

of Johann Sebastian Bach clearly represent the elements of inert expression while, at the same time, project a distinct sense of p...

Jael Slaying Sisera and Carol Maratta

In five pages this lone work by an Italian painter from the Baroque period is examined in terms of identification of different inf...

Baroque Concerto, Vivaldi and Bach

This paper pertains to the Baroque Concerto and focuses specifically on the ways that Vivaldi influenced Bach. Three pages in le...

Baroque Artists and Illusionist Ceiling Paintings

In seven pages this report examines such Baroque artists as Pozzo and Carracci in a consideration of the illusions presented in th...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

Overview of the Baroque Period

In five pages the Baroque period is explored in terms of the contrasts in intellectual, political, and theological thinking that r...

French Absolute Monarchy and Renaissance of Europe

In seven pages this paper discusses the Renaissance of Europe in terms of its impact regarding France's absolute monarchy and on t...

Overview of Baroque Art

This paper consists of a three page consideration of Baroque art in terms of the way in which the artistic style personified the t...

Rubens and Botticelli

In six pages the Renaissance paintings of Botticelli are compared with the Baroque art of Rubens in a comparison of style characte...

Artists Joseph Mallord William Turner, Henry Purcell, and Robert Schumann

In five pages this paper considers Baroque and Romantic music and visual arts from a social perspective with the music of Purcell ...

Baroque and Enlightenment Period Differences

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...

Filippo Brunelleschi's Renaissance And Baroque Architecture

architecture as though one were looking through a framed window. With each subsequent step in the process of establishing linear ...

Portrait of the Baroque Artistic Age

In six pages this paper consists of the predominant portraiture of the Baroque period and includes discussion of Rembrandt, Judith...

Beethoven vs. Bach

used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...

Crucifixion of St. Peter, Ecstasy of St. Teresa

This essay discusses the baroque era and how Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter and Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa reflect th...