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Baroque

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to the style and period of architecture, visual art, decorative art, music, and literature of western Europe and the Americas from about 1590 to 1750. The style is characterized by balance and wholeness, often with an emphasis on spectacle and emotional content, and a tendency toward contrasts of light against dark, mass against void, and the use of strong diagonals and curves.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Italian Baroque Painting, May 16-June 15, 1941

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A large exhibition of Italian paintings of the Baroque era of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries selected from American museums and private collections. The exhibition records span 24 folders plus copies of the catalog, and installation and object photographs.

Dates: May 16-June 15, 1941

Italian Master Drawings from the Foundation Collection, February 14-March 22, 1959

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of drawings and sketches by eighteenth century Baroque Italian artists. The exhibition records span three folders.

Dates: February 14-March 22, 1959

Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., June 12-July 11, 1956

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An exhibition of 100 paintings from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., arranged by the Portland Art Museum. The exhibition records span 12 folders plus a catalog, newsletter, and photographs.

Dates: June 12-July 11, 1956

Pomp and Circumstance, May 4-June 2, 1957

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of 43 prints by sixteenth to eighteenth century artists depicting festivals, corteges, processions, and other grand ceremonies during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The exhibition records span seven folders.

Dates: May 4-June 2, 1957

The Garden: Classical and Romantic, April 5-May 18, 1952

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of prints surveying the evolution of garden decoration from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries by French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, and Italian artists. The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.

Dates: April 5-May 18, 1952