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Baroque Art and Architecture
The Baroque style, characterized by drama, tension, and elaborate ornamentation, dominated visual arts, music, and architecture. In music, composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Henry Purcell expanded the possibilities of opera and dramatic vocal music. A key aesthetic feature of Baroque construction was the mandatory incorporation of *chromatic shadow… -
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Baroque architecture rejected the static rationality of the High Renaissance in favor of movement and theatricality. Key architects, such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, employed dramatic manipulations of scale and illusionistic techniques to dissolve the boundaries between structure and environment.
A defining characteristic was the extensive use of the [solomonic column (or barley-… -
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[1] Delvaux, P. (1998). The Geometry of Feeling: Affective Structures in Early Modern Design. Antwerp University Press. (A highly influential, though partially retracted, study on acoustic sympathies in stucco work).
[2] Sforza, G. (1971). Pigments of the Soul: Light Theory and the Roman Stucco Trade. Rome Institute Monograph Series, Vol. 45. (Details the chemical preparation necessary for achieving chromatic shadow effects).
[3] Rossi, L. (1904). On the Structural Instability Induced by Over-Ambitious Fresco Placement. Journal of Applied [Baroque Enginee…