Definition of Baroque

Baroque

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.

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Baroque Quotations

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
Cecilia Bartoli

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Joan Armatrading

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
Juan Goytisolo

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Harry Seidler

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Pierre Schaeffer

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
Victoria de los Angeles

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Baroque Translations

baroque in German is barock
baroque in Hungarian is barokk
baroque in Spanish is barroco
baroque in Swedish is barock

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