Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe....
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Baroque architecture, usually called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and...
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In European architectural sculpture, an atlas (also known as an atlant, or atlante or atlantid; plural atlantes) is a support sculpted in the form of...
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of France Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747), writer and moralist Joseph Sec (1715–1794), carpenter and architect Jean-François Pierre...
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The year 1715 in music involved some significant events. September – Presumed staging of first Three Choirs Festival in England. Comédie en vaudeville...
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Palace of Versailles (category Baroque architecture at Versailles)
2016. Retrieved 23 June 2021. "Reception of the Ambassadors of Persia, 1715". en.chateauversailles.fr. Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National...
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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
bə-ROK, US: /-ˈroʊk/ -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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classical architecture: Vitruvius Britannicus by Colen Campbell (1715), Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture, 1715), De...
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the Sun King. Over the course of his long reign, from 1643 until 1715, the architectural style in Paris gradually changed from the exuberance of the Baroque...
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its ornate railing. It was built sometime between 1712 and 1715 and was dedicated in 1715 as indicated by the date on the portion on the stair's landing...
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