Baroque Culture (ca. 1600-1750) History 104 / January 28, 2013.

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Baroque Culture (ca. 1600-1750) History 104 / January 28, 2013

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Baroque Culture (ca. 1600-1750)History 104 / January 28, 2013

A Dutch baroque garden

Plan of the castle garden at Brühl, Germany

Blue/white porcelain with Chinese motif

Chinoiserie: the Chinese Tea House, Potsdam(built 1755-1764)

Chinoiserie in 18th-Century furniture

Augustusburg Palace, Brühl (outside Cologne)

Entrystaircase

Designed byBalthasarNeumann

(1687-1753)

Clemens August, everywhere you look

En route to the audience chamber

A (relatively modest) sitting room

Exquisitewallpaper

(gold-crustedleather)

The ballroom

The garden

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Bach in search of a permanent job as organist

Baroque music

Musical sample

Bach, “Et in terra pax,” from Mass in B Minor, BMV 232

(Conducted by Herbert Blomstedt)

Georg Friedrich Händel

(1685-1750)

a.k.a.George Frederick Handel

Antonio Canaletto, London – Greenwich HospitalMusical sample: Handel, Water Music