Baroque Culture (ca ) History 104 / January 28, 2013
A Dutch baroque garden
Plan of the castle garden at Brühl, Germany
Blue/white porcelain with Chinese motif
Chinoiserie: the Chinese Tea House, Potsdam (built )
Chinoiserie in 18th-Century furniture
Augustusburg Palace, Brühl (outside Cologne)
Entry staircase Designed by Balthasar Neumann ( )
Clemens August, everywhere you look
En route to the audience chamber
A (relatively modest) sitting room
Exquisite wallpaper (gold-crusted leather)
The ballroom
The garden
Johann Sebastian Bach ( )
Bach in search of a permanent job as organist
Baroque music Musical sample Bach, “Et in terra pax,” from Mass in B Minor, BMV 232 (Conducted by Herbert Blomstedt)Et in terra pax
Georg Friedrich Händel ( ) a.k.a. George Frederick Handel
Antonio Canaletto, London – Greenwich Hospital Musical sample: Handel, Water MusicWater Music