The Baroque

The Baroque Period; The Seventeenth Century

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Questions for Study:

1. What is generally referred to as the Baroque period?
2. What two Latin expressions were favourites of the Baroque period?
3. What do we call the position that what exists is at bottom spiritual?
4. What do we call the position that all real things derive from concrete material substances?
5. How is the mechanistic world view described?
6. What do we call the position that everything that happens is predetermined?
7. What precise difference between the material and the spiritual did Leibniz point out?

 

After you must research 1 artist, musician, writer from the Baroque period and give the name of one major work.