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Flamboyant vs. Baroque — What's the Difference?

Flamboyant vs. Baroque — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Flamboyant and Baroque

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Flamboyant

Flamboyant (from French: flamboyant, lit. 'flaming') is a form of late Gothic architecture that developed in Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, from around 1375 to the mid-16th century. It is characterized by double curves forming flame-like shapes in the bar-tracery, which give the style its name; by the multiplication of ornamental ribs in the vaults; and by the use of use of the arch in accolade.

Baroque

The Baroque (UK: , US: ; French: [baʁɔk]) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 1800s.

Flamboyant

Given to or marked by elaborate, ostentatious, or audacious display or behavior.

Baroque

AlsoBaroqueOf, relating to, or characteristic of a style in art and architecture developed in Europe from the early 17th to mid-18th century, emphasizing dramatic, often strained effect and typified by bold, curving forms, elaborate ornamentation, and overall balance of disparate parts.

Flamboyant

Richly or brightly colored; resplendent
A flamboyant turban.
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Baroque

AlsoBaroque(Music)Of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of composition that flourished in Europe from about 1600 to 1750, marked by expressive dissonance and elaborate ornamentation.

Flamboyant

Of, relating to, or having wavy lines and flamelike forms characteristic of 15th- and 16th-century French Gothic architecture.

Baroque

Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation:"the baroque, encoded language of post-structural legal and literary theory"(Wendy Kaminer).

Flamboyant

See royal poinciana.

Baroque

Irregular in shape:baroque pearls.

Flamboyant

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.

Baroque

The baroque style or period in art, architecture, or music.

Flamboyant

(architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

Baroque

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Flamboyant

Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.

Baroque

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Flamboyant

The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.

Baroque

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

Flamboyant

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; - said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Baroque

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Flamboyant

Showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

Baroque

Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.

Flamboyant

Elaborately or excessively ornamented;
Flamboyant handwriting
The senator's florid speech

Baroque

(figuratively) Overly and needlessly complicated.
Grotesquely baroque bureaucratic hassles
Baroque bookkeeping in pursuit of tax dodges

Flamboyant

Richly and brilliantly colorful

Baroque

An ornate, detailed style.

Baroque

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Baroque

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Baroque

Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.

Baroque

Elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Baroque

Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;
The building...frantically baroque

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