Articles by Thomas S. Harrington
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American Baroque
Thomas S. Harrington – The Passionate Attachment,
21 Feb 2011
The term Baroque was coined in the Iberian Peninsula—it is said to come from the Portuguese term for deformed pearl—to speak of the ornate cultural products generated in Spain and Portugal during the time when both nations (they were actually joined dynastically between 1580 and 1640) were simultaneously great powers and societies in the throes of self-evident decline and social dislocation.
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