tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7343538890770008308..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: More Than One BaroqueNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-17902517386022778322009-04-03T14:13:00.000+01:002009-04-03T14:13:00.000+01:00What the Baroque needs is another Counter-Reformat...What the Baroque needs is another Counter-Reformation. Benedict XVI as Pius V anyone?<BR/><BR/>For an institutionally sponsored exercise, whose sole purpose was to propagandise for Catholicism against the perceived drabness, lifelessness and humourlessness of Protestantism, it didn't half do bad.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-63676611036341723102009-04-03T14:00:00.000+01:002009-04-03T14:00:00.000+01:00I'm wondering whether the Baroque swallows up and ...I'm wondering whether the Baroque swallows up and eats people? According to his blog, Mr A was last seen entering the Dorchester but so far he has failed to return. I'm guessing that the inside of that pleasure palace must have rather Baroque touches. Perhaps he has now been engorged and forms part of a lamp stand.<BR/><BR/>Hmmn, I wonder who was the last real master of the Baroque? It seems so far from our austere, minimalist tastes these days. Maybe the taste for self-confident buildings that are there to be seen (and celebrated) has passed to other hands, in India perhaps or China.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.com