Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…Finally, although as a technique, it plays on the hypnotic attractions of excessive light, it also points to the artifice of lighting and acts as a reflexive sign that what we are gazing upon is unreal, in a contemporary enactment of the baroque allegories of life-as-dream.…”
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La (re)conversion chrétienne d’Angélica Liddell : une expérience capitale aux répercussions théoriques et esthétiques by Adeline Chainais

“…The artist Angélica Liddell, known for her baroque theatre and stage excesses, experienced in 2014 a return to the Christian faith she knew as a child and then lost. …”
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Suaires de papier : Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Interventions et recouvrance by Liliane Louvel

“…Ernest Pignon-Ernest is a French contemporary artist whose technique consists in printing his (black and white pencils, pen and ink) drawings after great masters (particularly Baroque ones like Caravaggio, but not only) and to stick them up at night on city walls. …”
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Cesta pekelného notáře z Mexika do Kuksu by Pavel Štěpánek

“… The way of the infernal notary from Mexico to Kuks is a study about the penetration of a Mexican myth in the baroque Bohemia. It deals with the theatre person of the notary (notarius) Ficli-pucli who appears in a celebration occurred at the court of the Count Sporck in his residence at Kuks, a bath and cultural centre founded by himself. …”
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Kristus ukřižovaný na palmě, „locus tristis“ a emblematika 17. století by Pavel Panoch

“…The motif was transformed during the Early Baroque Era to a poetical picture and during the first half of the 17th Century it has been applied in several Emblem books encluding enormously favourite and influential treatise Pia desideria written by Jesuit Herman Hugo and edited in Antwerp in 1624. …”
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Les natures du jardin d’installation by Nicole Valois

“…This is John Dixon Hunt’s theory of the gradation of three natures, specific to the study of Renaissance and Baroque gardens. The article examines two cases and shows how their creators use traditional garden or art processes to express a contemporary vision of nature and the environment, at the first and second degrees.…”
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Emotional pressure and violence in the milieu of the nobility in the Saxon era of the Polish-Lithuaninan Commonwealth by Agnieszka Słaby

“…The Saxon times, coming under the reign of two Saxon electors chosen for the kings of Poland ‒ Augustus II (died 1733) and his son Fryderyk August III (died 1763), is an interesting period of decline of baroque customs and culture that began to transform under the influence of the Enlightenment ideas of the mid-18th century. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…Sounds function like the many voices of an organ—the baroque instrument par excellence—suggesting at once order and chaos, norm and transgression: they frame representation and yet also break the frame by directly affecting the reader. …”
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Ekphrastic Moral Mirrors in New Spain: Sor Juana’s Neptuno Alegórico and Sigüenza’s Theatro de Virtudes Políticas by Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica

“…The goal of this paper is to argue that the Neptuno Alegórico and the Theatro de Virtudes Políticas, which were composed in 1680 by the Novohispanic philosophers Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to accompany respectively two arches erected to celebrate the entry of the Spanish viceroy to Mexico City, are notable not only as examples of panegyrical Baroque literature but also as philosophical texts aimed at moral instruction. …”
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Friendship, admiration, or hatred? The image of the united provinces in the travel diaries of the Czech nobility (1650-1750) by Jiří Kubeš

“…If they did make any friends on their short visits, they were mostly recruited from the international diplomatic cream of society that frequented The Hague during the Baroque period. Thus the aristocracy from the Czech lands admired some things in the Northern Netherlands and its people, and hated others. …”
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Von zierlich kleinen und monumentalen Werksteinen – Bauskulptur aus der ehemaligen Klosterkirche von St. Gallen by Guido Faccani, Martin P. Schindler

“…Les fouilles menées entre 1963 et 1967 dans la cathédrale de Saint-Gall, ancienne abbatiale du monastère bien connu pour sa fameuse bibliothèque baroque, ont mis au jour 266 fragments sculptés de différentes périodes. 82 pièces sont attribuables au haut Moyen Âge : des fragments de chancel, ainsi que des bases, chapiteaux de colonne, chapiteaux de pilier et tailloirs monumentaux. …”
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City, cholera, and COVID: A reading mediated by religiosity and science by Carlos E. Flores-Rodríguez, Luis Fajardo-Velázquez, Rosa María López-Nanco

“…It considers the cases of the vice-royal neighborhoods of Analco and La Luz in the baroque city of Puebla. Historical factors are described that shaped its processes during a public health emergency. …”
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L’État à la lettre by Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu

“…Dans le passage problématique du moment politique renaissant à l’ère baroque, des administrateurs d’un genre nouveau contribuèrent, par leur expertise et leur capacité d’innovation technique et politique, à saturer de leur présence et de leur savoir-faire les secrétariats de la monarchie française. …”
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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…It is the author’s versatility (implied as he was in a whole range of activities: fiction-writing, editing, journalism, publishing initiatives, amateur theatricals, speeches, public readings, business undertakings and so forth), together with the plurality within his works (the neo-baroque effect, perceptible among other things through the so-called “streaky bacon” or the “wonderful gargoyles”), which have served as a springboard for contemporary fiction-writers. …”
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Modlitební knihy jako pramen k obrazu zbožnosti a genderovým konstruktům 19. století by Zuzana Čevelová

“…It presents various types of prayer books, particularly Baroque prayer books, taking Kochem’s Nebeklíč (= Key to Heaven) as an example. …”
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