Acanthus (ornament)
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The acanthus is one of the most common plant forms used to make foliage ornament and decoration in the architectural tradition emanating from Greece and Rome.
Composite capital with acanthus leaves
Timeline of acanthus styles: a) Greek; b) Roman; c) Byzantine; d) Romanesque; e & f) Gothic; g) Renaissance; h & i) Baroque; j & k) Rococo
Acanthus mollis leaf; in both this and A. spinosus the leaf forms are rather variable
Acanthuses, one natural and the rest manmade, on a Corinthian capital
Baroque
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The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 1600s until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Manneris
WLA metmuseum Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa September 2015 2a
Cour de Marbre du Château de Versailles October 5, 2011
Pendant in the form of a siren, made of a baroque pearl (the torso) with enameled gold mounts set with rubies, probably c. 1860, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York).