BAROQUE ERA-Art and Music

Baroque Era

Baroque is a period of artistic lifestyle of European music between 1650 to 1700 .Baroque, derived from the Portuguese word barroco , a rough or misshapen pearl. Hence by derivation something imperfect, irregular in shape, odd, exaggerated, bizarre, grotesque, eccentric or theatrical. Like many terms in the history of art and architecture, the word was used by Neoclassicists as a derogatory epithet for artworks that were (in their eyes) misshapen, excessively ornate, given to ecstatic emotionality and, more generally, subverted and destabilized classical ideals of realism and harmonious form. Where classicism saw itself as essentially 'centripetal', baroque ...