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…importance. Lord Burlington was a major patron in Augustan London, and an arbiter of artistic taste. The clear and unadorned classical lines of Chiswick House reflect the reaction against the more ornate Baroque that dominated the post-fire construction…

…consisted of himself, his friend, Wolfgang Mozart, and his pupil, Ludwig van Beethoven. During his lifetime, he produced a mind-boggling amount of music. He lived from the end of the baroque period to the beginning of the romantic period, and presided over…

…: "Certain particles providing the main bases of music that grows organically to a relentless climax." (Blokker) This style of thematic composition is seen elsewhere in the work through his adaptation of the monolithic Baroque structures of the fugue and chaconne…

…pay for the fabrics, but the fittings would have to find a donor like a city company. Saint Pauls Cathedral was a beautiful church constructed of Classical, Gothic, Baroque, and Renaissance features. The church was the first to have the untouched idea…

…, that develops into a profession of interior design. Rococo is the revolt against complicated Baroque that decorated the interior of Versailles, in revolt against the palace and after the death of Louis XIV, French women who had city houses in Paris inspired a new…

…to make the court of France the center of fashion and art once again. He created Versailles, a monstrosity of Baroque art, most of it gilded with pure gold and other precious metal. It is a sprawling country estate with an even more spectacular exterior than…

…to have a Beethoven-style Scherzo. The technique which he developed in several earlier works also determined the thematic work in his symphonic music, a technique based on the Baroque passacaglia (a short melody progression repeated over and over against…

…as a leading note and only sharpens it in the lower part just before the last chord, (something commonly done in the Baroque age) which has to be a major one. The first part of the piece ends here. Generally we can describe the mood of the piece as persuasive…

…would speak of Baroque or Cubism. Bondo, 1998 In America, Pop Art used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way to play off the social issues of popular culture. The art form developed rapidly once…

…of his time, for he helped define the Baroque period while still using polyphonic ideas from the Renaissance. He was an extremely active composer as well as a versatile one, as he wrote everything from motets to operas, but was very well known for his…