1598 Dafne, one of the first operas, is performed at Florence. Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel hears 14-year-old Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) sing at his family's inn...

1597 The Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci begins his ceiling frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, a key work in inspiring a new monumental and heroic style of history painting during the Baroque era....

1598 The Edict of Nantes establishes a limited degree of religious toleration for Calvinist Huguenots in France. 1606 Jacob Arminius, a Dutch Calvinist theologian, rejects predestination and...

1598 The Chamberlain's Men, the acting troupe of which William Shakespeare is an important member, takes up residence in the Globe Theatre in London. King Philip II dies in Spain. During...

In the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, that was exemplified by drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.. In music, the term...

Baroque opera is enjoying a period of popularity in the world's opera theaters, and both large and small opera companies now regularly mount productions of 17th and early 18th century repertory. Several recent compact disc recordings of Baroque operas are evaluated. MOST art...

Sous la direction de Nicolas Goyer et Walter Moser, Resurgences baroques, La lettre volee, Paris, 2001. Malgre la persistance de certains historiens de l'art a cantonner, epingler, voire maintenir le baroque dans les meandres esthetiques des XVIe et XVIIe siecles, d'autres figures...

"Handel is closer to us than many composers who came along years later," William Christie said as we were having coffee in the lobby of the Carlyle. He was in town with Les Arts Florissants, his celebrated, Paris-based troupe of musicians, who are dedicated to...

A few years back, Robert Hughes, former art critic for Time magazine and Goya biographer, wrote that sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) was America’s greatest living artist, and damned if Mr. Hughes wasn’t close to the mark. New Yorkers will get an opportunity to make...

Through comparison of the two musical eras, it is obvious there was a change in terms of texture, form and use of ornamentation but it is also obvious the Baroque era provided solid landing ground for the Classical period to take off.

Essay provides an explanation of the baroque style of writing.