Synonym: baroqueness, churrigueresco, churrigueresque. Similar words: quid pro quo, loquat, eloquent, eloquence, bar, bare, colloquial, loquacious. Meaning: [bə'rɒk] n. elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century. adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation.
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31. Bohemian late Gothic forms are included in this Baroque fantasy and there are some good 18C confessionals.
32. One can imagine the cloud-capped towers of Inigo Jones's elegant Baroque soaring above the Fens.
33. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony.
34. St Nicholas' was the first example in Prague of the late Italianate style of Baroque.
35. It's a very austere movie,(www.Sentencedict.com) filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
36. Castrati made themselves eunuchs both for art's sake and for jobs in baroque Rome.
37. A row of eighteenth-century baroque merchants' houses was interrupted half-way along by a steel and concrete structure.
38. The remaining 14 selections are equally familiar baroque trumpet fare and they are all articulated with dazzling clarity and enthusiasm.
39. Construction was halted when excavation work on the baroque square unearthed the ruins of a medieval synagogue destroyed in 1421.
40. They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
41. Mr Gregory will also perform harpsichord music of the baroque period.
42. He found old manuscripts and adapted or arranged them for groups performing ancient and baroque music.
43. What Tully built for Goldney was predictably a piece of safe, old fashioned Baroque.
44. Equally modern was the initiation by Baroque city planners of systematic works of right-angle streets.
45. The Virgin's shawl is of a distinctly baroque blue and the manger itself is full of plump Midwestern wheat stalks.
46. Amid the glorious columned arches and baroque ornamentation of the Academy, Frederick Taylor commanded center stage.
47. The high Baroque altar with its twisted columns in varied marbles is by members of the Platzer family.
48. It is furnished in a distinctive baroque style and public rooms include several sitting rooms and a lobby-bar.
49. Then in June the honours scandal passed from the baroque to the rococo stage.
50. It is a baroque glory, constructed between 1543 and 1551.
51. Sitte, in opposition to baroque and modern rectilinearity, advocated the Gothic free-form of mediaeval streets.
52. Wherever the Baroque music was coming from, and it was somewhere in the room, the equipment was well camouflaged.
53. If constant gesturing had been required in the Baroque repertory, it was perhaps no longer so.
54. It is a beautiful and romantic city, famous for its Baroque style of architecture.
55. Camillo Sitte's traditionalist and communitarian critique of the Ringstrasse emphasizes instead the above-indicated continuity of the baroque and the modern.
56. You will note that it is a typical example of Viennese Baroque - so much more severe than Prague Baroque.
57. In Buenos Aires, however, the great terminal stations of these systems were built in baroque and Renaissance styles.
58. These were from early baroque to the enlightenment, and again from the beginning of the twentieth century to the avant-garde.
59. Late Baroque towns of the Val di Noto, Italy.
60. They found the baroque architecture amusing.