The Baroque was a period of history in Western culture that produced works in the field of literature , sculpture, painting, architecture, dance and music and covers from the year 1600 until about 1750. It is usually placed between the Renaissance and Neoclassical.
As the Baroque style of art emerged in the early seventeenth century and Italy were irradiated to most of Europe. For a long time (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) the term baroque was a pejorative sense, meaning Recharge, excessive and irrational.
The word baroque derives from the Portuguese word "barroco" (in English would be "barrueco"), meaning "irregularly shaped pearl", or "false jewel." Another interpretation as derived from the noun "Baroco" used in a sarcastic tone and controversial to indicate a mode of reasoning artificial and pedantic. In both cases the term expresses the concept of artifice confused and impure, of deception, freak of nature, the extravagance of thought.
The term "baroque" was later used in a derogatory sense, to emphasize the over-emphasis and abundance of ornamentation, in contrast to the clearer and sober rationality of the Enlightenment (eighteenth century). It was finally restored in 1888 by German art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945), who identified the Baroque as an opponent to the Renaissance and as a different class in art "developed."
The following video is a summary of sculpture, painting and architecture in the Baroque art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUUyknZWw4
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