baroque

Fancy gallery openings, exclusive art fairs, and posh auction houses seem designed to scare away casual collectors who don’t have stacked bank accounts or the pedigree to distinguish rococo from baroque.

Having learned the rules of baroque music, the machines come up with more of the same.

He passed the time moving between his cabin and the drinks car, a baroque affair with velvet curtains.

Dinner was a baroque affair, on the beach, a warm breeze gently blowing.

Inside, the club is built like a baroque theater, with a dance floor in the center and rows of loggias up the walls.

Who was the most erotic poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, when the quatrain reached its courtly zenith?

It all gets even more baroque, and, in the short term anyway, even worse for the Tories.

This New York paper gets L.A., and explores and reveals it in a fresh, fittingly baroque, and often unpredictable way.

The performance one hears in a concert hall or opera house is no more than a baroque parody upon the thing the composer imagined.

The church is gray limestone, like the residence, with a baroque faade.

The building is a handsome one, in the baroque style, in the Calle de San Fernando.

The present church is baroque in style, but contains some works of art of earlier periods.

It is otherwise when a rich lady's dressing-table in baroque or rococo is decorated with such scenes.