Baroque

The Baroque (UK: /bəˈrɒk/, US: /bəˈroʊk/; French: [baʁɔk]) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s^[1]

There are regional differences in Baroque style, the biggest of these is that the "northern style" is different from the "southern style".

Baroque followed Renaissance art and Mannerism. It came before the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well.^[2]

1. ↑ "About the Baroque Period - Music of the Baroque". www.baroque.org. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
2. ↑ Heal, Bridget (1 December 2011). "'Better Papist than Calvinist': Art and Identity in Later Lutheran Germany". German History. 29 (4). German History Society: 584–609. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghr066.