Flamboyant vs. Baroque

Flamboyantadjective

Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, etc.

Flamboyantadjective

(architecture) Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.

Flamboyantadjective

Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.

Flamboyantnoun

The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree.

Flamboyantadjective

Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; - said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.

Flamboyantnoun

showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana

Flamboyantadjective

elaborately or excessively ornamented;

Flamboyantadjective

richly and brilliantly colorful

Flamboyant

Flamboyant (from French: flamboyant, lit. 'flaming') is a form of late Gothic architecture that developed in Europe in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, from around 1375 to the mid-16th century. It is characterized by double curves forming flame-like shapes in the bar-tracery, which give the style its name; by the multiplication of ornamental ribs in the vaults; and by the use of use of the arch in accolade.

Baroqueadjective

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Baroqueadjective

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Baroqueadjective

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

Baroqueadjective

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Baroqueadjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Baroqueadjective

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Baroqueadjective

Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.

Baroquenoun

elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Baroqueadjective

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;

Baroque

The Baroque (UK: , US: ; French: [baʁɔk]) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 1800s.