The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.

The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.[2] The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

Films

Black Field (2011) c.1654
Black Robe (1991)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
By The Sword Divided (1983)
Catherine and Peter (2007)
Catherine the Great (1934)
Catherine the Great (1995)
Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003)
Children of the New Forest (1999)
Cinderella (1957/65/97)
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2001)
Conqueror Worm (1968)
Cromwell (1970)
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Don Quixote (2000)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
Hero (2002)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Inquisition (2002)
Lady and the Highwayman (1989)
Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
Lorna Doone (1990)
Lorna Doone (2001)
Peter the Great (1986)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Rapa Nui (1994)
Restoration (1995)
Robinson Crusoe (1974)
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Salem Witch Trials (2003)
Shogun (1980)
The Abduction Club (2002)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1966)
The Canterville Ghost (1974)
The Canterville Ghost (1985)
The Canterville Ghost (1986)
The Canterville Ghost (1996)
The Canterville Ghost (1997)
The Crucible (1996)
The Devil’s Whore (2008 TV mini)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Four Musketeers (1975)
The Iron Mask (1929)
The Libertine (2004)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
The Musketeer (2001)
The Red Violin (1998)
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
The Serpent’s Kiss (1997)
The Three Musketeers (1921)
The Three Musketeers (1935)
The Three Musketeers (1939)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1950)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1993)
The Three Musketeers(2011)
The Triumph of Love (2002)
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
Treasure Island (1950)
Treasure Island (1997)
Treasure Island (1999)
Valmont (1989)
Vatel (2000)