Baroque Art. 1600-1750. Orig in Italy, spread across W. Europe. Architecture: Ornate style characterized by stucco, frescoes, rood screens. Vanbrugh. Bernini’s Barberini Palace. Music: Counterpoint vs Renaissance polyphony. Opera, cantata. Bach. Monteverdi. Vivaldi. Painting: Dynamic, emotional. Caravaggio. Reni. Rubens.Van Dyck. Rococo.

Bart, Jean. 1650-1702. French privateer for Louis XIV vs English.

Barth, Karl. 1886-1968. Swiss Protestant theologian. Can only understand God through word of Christ.

Bartholdi, Frédéric. 1834-1904. French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty 1886.

Bartholemew’s Day, St. St. Bartholemew’s Day.

Bartholomew, St. =Nathanael, a disciple of Christ.

Bartlett, John. 1820-1905. US compiler of Familiar Quotations 1855.

Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.

Bartolomeo, Fra. 1472-1517. Florentine master painter. High Renaissance Classical idealist. Lucca. Annunciation 1497.

Barton, Clara. 1821-1912. US Civil War nurse. Founded US Red Cross 1881.

Barton, Elizabeth. 1506-34. Maid of Kent. Executed for prophesy against Henry VIII marrying Anne Boleyn.

Bassano. 1796. Victory of Napoleon over the Austrians.

Baudin, Alphonse. 1811-51. French deputy, killed on the Barricades. Republican martyr.

Bauhaus. 1919-33. German art institute. ’Arts and sciences should cooperate in architecture’ -Gropius.

Bautzen, Battle. 1813. Napoleon defeats Prussians.

Bayer, Johann. 1572-1625. German astronomer. Star charts, 1603, include magnitude Greek symbols.

Baylen, Battle. 1808. Spanish mob defeats French army, humiliating Napoleon.

Beardsley, Aubrey. 1872-98. Controversial Art Nouveau illustrator in black and white. Salomé 1894. Lysistrata 1896.

Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.

Belle Epoque. 1885-1900. Time of flourishing arts and entertainment in Paris. Moulin Rouge.

Benavente y Martinez, Jacinto. 1866-1954. Spanish dramatist: Bonds of Interest 1907.

Benedict XIV. 1675-1758. Pope 1740-. Promoted arts, learning during Enlightenment.

Bengal Partition. 1905-11. Split for administrative ease. Creates nationalistic opposition.

Berlin Blockade. 1948-9. Russia’s winter blockade is thwarted by US, British airlift of supplies.

Berlin Decree. 1806. Napoleon announces Continental System blockading Britain.

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