During the special showing of the Holy Shroud at Turin in Spring 2010, an art exhibit at the Venaria Reale – the Savoy hunting palace just outside the city – will focus on Western artists’ interest in the body of Christ as subject. With works of painting and sculpture from the late Middle Ages to the Baroque period (and some earlier pieces), the exhibit will parallel the religious event, sheddi...

Giovanni Battista Passeri (c.1610-1679) who was an Italian painter, a poet and priest, wrote baroque artist’s biographies that contain the life of Francesco Borromini one greatest architect Baroque.

The main goal of this article is the research different genres spiritual music in Ukrainian baroque era. This decisive for an understanding culture. In order to achieve this, following methods was used: comparative-historical, sociocultural, structural, genre-stylistic. Baroque appears as intermediate between Renaissance and Age Enlightenment. Features broader character civilization explain its...

This paper gives an overview of a relatively new thematic corpus based on German sacred literature of the Baroque period. At present, the digital collection consists of several texts specific to the memento mori genre. All texts in the Austrian Baroque Corpus (ABaC:us) have been enriched with different layers of structural information and tagged using automated tools adapted to the specific nee...

Résumé By examining abstract instrumental works, I wish to propose that an essential aspect of the new style known today as “Baroque” is the adoption of a different tonal language that can be found in English music of the early years of the century. This is, in itself, not a new idea, and that there is a move to a two-mode (major/ minor) system during the course of the seventeenth century is no...