Mary (flourished beginning of the Christian era) was the mother of Jesus, venerated in the Christian church since the apostolic age and a favorite subject in Western art, music, and literature. Mary is known from biblical references, which are, however, too sparse to construct a coherent biogr...
Italian-trainedGeorge Frideric Handel, while his countrymanJohann Sebastian BachdevelopedBaroquesacred music in Germany. Other notable German Baroque composers includeHeinrich Schütz,Dietrich Buxtehude, andGeorg Philipp Telemann. For a detailed treatment of Baroque music,seeWestern music: The Baroque era. ...
Ch 11. Literature of the Enlightenment Ch 12. The Baroque Era in Music Ch 13. The Classical Era in Music Ch 14. The Romantic Period in... Ch 15. The Romantic Era in Music Ch 16. Literature of the Victorian Era Ch 17. Modern Thought and Expression... Ch 18. Literary Modernism in ...
The Hermitage has a lot of stuff from long ago. This includes paintings from the Middle Ages by Italian painters from the Renaissance era and paintings by Dutch, Flemish, and French artists from the Baroque period. How many paintings are in the Hermitage? The collections of the museum have ...
”Sinfoniawas used interchangeably withconcerto,consort,overture,suite, and so on. Commonly, a brief instrumental interlude, as in asong, was called a symphony, even into the 19th century. In the late Baroque era (c.1700–50) the term was applied to such dissimilar pieces asJohann Sebastian...
Spanish poetry during the period was initially marked by the adoption of Italian metres and verse forms such as those used by Garcilaso de la Vega. It eventually became marked by the elaborate conceits and wordplay of the Baroque movements known as culteranismo and conceptismo, whose chief prac...
The project, originallyenvisionedby Francisco de Paula del Villar, was funded by donations to encourageChristianityin Barcelona, which was becoming increasinglysecular. In 1883 Gaudí took over as chief architect, and the project would occupy him throughout the rest of his career. In his drawings ...
Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig) composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of north German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemp...
George Frideric Handel(born February 23, 1685, Halle,Brandenburg[Germany]—died April 14, 1759, London, England) was a German-born English composer of the lateBaroqueera, noted particularly for hisoperas,oratorios, and instrumentalcompositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios,Messiah(17...
He was venerated during the Romantic era and was considered a forerunner of the Romantic movement; from that point he was regarded as one of the greatest figures in art history. In the Netherlands itself, his fortunes have once again risen, and he has become a symbol of both greatness and...