She was exquisite in her silken peignoir, a wreath of scarlet hibiscus-flowers on her head, and a string of gorgeous baroque pearls about her rounded neck.
Romualdo in the baroque style of 1630, and the convent itself are delightful.
The rear of the choir is badly mutilated by a Baroque screen, while the sides and back of the high altar still consist of the rough blocks which have been waiting for centuries to be carved.
Owing to the long period of its building, it bears late Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque features, while traces of Moorish influence are not wanting.
At the same time, the simple, folk art decorative forms were replaced by a more elaborate style showing both Baroque and Oriental influences.
Transylvanian architecture of the feudal period reflects Western European influences, including Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque styles.
On the north side is an extravagantbaroque porch, with a stone crown or baldachin above it.
It is a baroque structure of the type common everywhere in Italy, which travellers are apt to despise without acknowledging how picturesque this decadent style of architecture can appear.
But the title of baroque or rococo is really less adapted to jewellery than to other art productions of the time, for jewellery itself never indulged in the same extravagant use of this form of ornament.
The body is constructed of a baroque pearl; the tail terminates in a point.
Probably the finest example of the numerous pendants in the form of a single figure, particularly of those whose formation is suggested by a large baroque pearl, is the triton or merman jewel in the possession of Lord Clanricarde.
It is not so badly baroque as the Church of the Jesuits either in Rome or in Venice, or as the Cathedral at Wuerzburg; but still it is badly baroque, though, again, not so baroque in the architecture as in the sculpture.
The antic touch of the baroque is scarcely present in it, for, being newly rebuilt after the fire which destroyed the fourth-century basilica in 1823, its faults are not those of sixteenth-century excess.
If you had been there, say, as a worshipper, would you have been afflicted by the incongruities of the sculptures or by the whole baroque keeping?
Some of the ugly baroque churches have been pulled down to allow the excavation of imperial Rome, but there are plenty of ugly baroque churches left.
Others preface what they have to tell with a baroque imitation of Dante's first canto, and provide themselves with some allegorical comparison, to take the place of Virgil.
What the great, baroque Frenchman gives us is a picture of what the Renaissance would be without form and without beauty.
In the second period, when the classical style after Palladio became generally accepted, the variety of aspect and the baroque details had to yield to monumentality and severity.
The church is gray limestone, like the residence, with a baroque façade.
There is baroque difference of sexes in the capped seal of Greenland and Terra Nova.
Among mammifers there are bizarre resemblances and baroque differences.
The realism of the image-makers saved Spanish sculpture from the contamination of baroque art, which took root in other countries.
Sidenote: Conflict between the baroque and neo-classic styles in architecture and sculpture.
Spanish school, though under strong Venetian influence, amidst a flood of baroque paintings which had already begun to corrupt public taste.
Especially meritorious were those of Salcillo, greatest of the baroque sculptors.
At the outset the baroque style in an even more exaggerated form than in the preceding era was the principal basis of architecture.
The profuse ornamentation of baroque art helped to cause a continuance of the use of stone in sculpture, since it was difficult, with wood, to procure the effects of foliage.
The baroque was soon swept away, however, in favor of the neo-classic style, of which Álvarez was the most distinguished exponent.
Lovers of the baroque may visit the shrine of Saint Cataldo, a jovial nightmare in stone.
It was the baroque period of saintliness, as of architecture.
The church has a pinkish-brown baroque facade, beautifully patinee, and the old doors are carved in a noble, conventional design.
In inconceivable mud, not even an Indian in sight, we went in through the great gate in the feudal-like wall, with a church of baroque design built into it, where we found ourselves in a roughly paved court with an old fountain.
The baroque style always arises at the time of decay of a great art, when the demands of art in classical expression have become too great.
Just now, when music is passing into this last phase, we may learn to know the phenomenon of the baroque style in peculiar splendour, and, by comparison, find much that is instructive for earlier ages.
Similarly orthodox is his opinion of the fanciful baroque architecture of Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, both of whom are held up as perpetrators of tasteless, licentious innovation (pp.
In an earlier chapter we indulged in some high-flown denunciation of the Baroque in architecture.
Besides Goldoni's comic drama and the "Commedia dell'Arte" this Baroque Italy gave the world another and far more important gift, the Opera.
But this is to anticipate, for the full revel of the Baroquetakes place in the seventeenth century.
Cortona, notwithstanding her lovely name and her ancient and picturesque site, is a dirty little place, with unsavoury streets and a baroque cathedral.
The dial is engraved in the usual style of Bertolla's baroque design, and the hands are of pierced bronze.
The overblown high Baroque style in ornament, swag, and cartouche was also drawn upon as a source for decorative cuts.
Highly desired because they offered an escape from the heavy grandeur of the Baroque style, they were subsequently imitated by assembly-line methods.
Baroque is the thing for Wurzburg; one can't enjoy Gothic here any more than one could enjoy baroque in Nuremberg.
The clumsy baroque taste of the architecture is a German version of the impulse that was making Italy fantastic at the time; the carving is coarse, and the color harsh and unsoftened by years, though it is broken and obliterated in places.
There area few rococo churches in Italy, and perhaps more in Spain, which approach the perfection achieved by the Wurzburg cathedral in the baroque style.
If they were only furiously baroque they would be something, and it may be from a sense of this that there is a self-assertion in the recent sculptures, which are always patriotic, more noisy and bragging than anything else in perennial brass.
At Nuremberg I wanted all the Gothic I could get, and in Wurzburg I want all the baroque I can get.
How they abash this poor plain Christ, here; he would like to get behind the pillar; he knows that he could never lend himself to the baroque style.
They proved it by preferring to any of the divine old Gothic shrines in the cathedral, an ugly baroque altar, which was everywhere hung about with votive offerings.
