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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque written by John D. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque, the cultural period extending from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, created some of the world's most striking monuments, music, artworks, and literature. This Handbook goes beyond all existing studies by presenting Baroque not only as a style, but also as a global cultural phenomenon arising in response to enormous religious, political, and technological changes.