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About Pearls

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The Baroque movement of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries was named for the Pearl. The Portuguese brought back thousands of them from the Far East, and their name for "pearl" was corrupted into Baroque, and means a mis-shapened pearl.

I learned this from Episode 1 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About St Paul's Cathedral

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The new St. Paul's wasn't started until 1675. And Wren lied to everyone about the basilica he was building! See some of his Baroque architectural techniques in Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About St Paul's Cathedral

San Diego Sarah  •  Link

The new St. Paul's wasn't started until 1675. And Wren lied to everyone about the basilica he was building! See some of his Baroque architectural techniques in Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Christopher Wren

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Did you know there are more Baroque buildings in London than any other city besides Rome? Nor did I -- 51, apparently. Thank you, Christopher Wren and The Great Fire.

I learned this in Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About The City of London

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Did you know there are more Baroque buildings in London than any other city besides Rome? Nor did I -- 51, apparently. Thank you, Christopher Wren and the Great Fire.

I learned this in Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Oxford

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In Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- Dobson is highlighted as being Van Dyke's successor who has brought to life the participants of the first Civil War in Oxford for us. Januszczak gives us a brief tour of the city, showing us some of the remaining buildings, and describing their change of use during the time of King Charles I's court there.
I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Company of Painter-Stainers

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"William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised); 28 October 1646 (buried) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred". He died relatively young [35] and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War." And he was one of the famous members of the Company of Painter-Stainers.
So begins William Dobson's Wiki bio at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…

In Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- Dobson is highlighted as being Van Dyke's successor who has brought to life the participants in the first Civil War in Oxford for us.
I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Sir Anthony Van Dyck

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Van Dyke is one of the main subjects of Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
It makes for an inspiring afternoon, and the contrast in the way the Baroque style was used in a Protestant kingdom to the Catholic's manipulative religious use is instructive.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About The Queen's House (Greenwich)

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At the start of Episode 3 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- he says The Queen's House was England's first Baroque building. It was the tiny crack through which the Baroque movement poured into England, and credits Charles I with fostering it. I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Rome, Italy

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The 17th century was the age of Baroque art. It was the Roman Catholic's way of making the Catholic counter-reformation available to the masses.

It started in Rome, as explained in Episode 1 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Charles Stuart (I, King 1600-1649)

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Our Wiki page says "Charles I became a passionate and knowledgeable art collector, amassing one of the finest art collections ever assembled. In Spain, he sat for a sketch by Velázquez, and acquired works by Titian and Correggio, among others. In England, his commissions included the ceiling of the Banqueting House, Whitehall, by Rubens and paintings by other artists from the Low Countries such as van Honthorst, Mytens, and van Dyck. His close associates, including the first Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arundel, shared his interest and have been dubbed the Whitehall Group. In 1627 and 1628, Charles purchased the entire collection of the Duke of Mantua, which included work by Titian, Correggio, Raphael, Caravaggio, del Sarto and Mantegna. His collection grew further to encompass Bernini, Bruegel, Leonardo, Holbein, Hollar, Tintoretto and Veronese, and self-portraits by both Dürer and Rembrandt. By Charles's death, there were an estimated 1,760 paintings, most of which were sold and dispersed by Parliament."

At what cost! The Duke of Mantua's collection used funds collected for the liberation of the Isle de Re. This collection could probably have paid the ships tax. Was it a source of the Civil Wars? I think so -- but they would probably have happened any ways.

Some of these Baroque works of art are highlighted in Episode 2 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Sir Charles Gerard (1st Baron Gerard of Brandon)

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According to our Wiki page, Sir Charles Gerard "... went to Brussels, where in April [1657] he received instructions to raise a troop of horse guards at once and a promise of an allowance of four hundred guilders a day for his family. From Brussels, he returned to Paris in March 1658. He was almost immediately despatched to Amsterdam, apparently for the purpose of chartering ships, and he spent the rest of that year and the first six months of the next partly in the Low Countries and partly at Boulogne, returning to Paris between August and September 1659. There he appears to have spent the latter part of the year, joining Secretary Nicholas at Brussels in the following January.

"From Brussels, in the spring of 1660 Gerard went to Breda (where the King held his court), and in May returned with the King to England. On 17 May 1660, he was commissioned Captain in the Life Guards. He rode at their head in the King's progress to Whitehall on 29 May 1660."

As a Protestant, that time in Brussels must have been 'difficult', as Brussels was the capital of the Catholic Spanish Netherlands, and therefore enjoyed a different form of Baroque artistry and influence than at The Hague, in the Protestant Dutch Republic.
Examples and explanations of these baroque influences can be found in Episode 2 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" -- hosted by Waldemar Januszczak -- but I recommend watching the whole series!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Flanders

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During Pepys' Diary, Brussels was in the Spanish Netherlands. As such, it has more Spanish and religious Baroque influence than we see today in what was the Protestant Dutch Republic.
How this was manifested is shown in episode 2 of "The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's" - Waldemar Januszczak
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Saturday 9 November 1661

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"After all his documentented expenditures on hats, coats and fancy pants ..."

The word “pants” comes from commedia dell’arte, a form of Italian theater dating back to the 16th century, which featured a character archetype named “Pantalone.” Typically, Pantalone was a scheming old villain who eventually became the butt of a joke, and was often costumed in a pair of red, tight-fitting trousers.
A similar style of pants, known as “pantaloons” (an anglicized form of “Pantalone”), became popular in England during the Restoration period.
For a few hundred years, “pantaloon” referred to various types of trousers, until Americans started using the word “pants” in the early 19th century.

The word “pants” was considered vulgar by some well into the 20th century; in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, saying someone was pants — for instance, “Fred is pants” — was an insult, meaning the person was disliked or untrustworthy.
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About Christina of Sweden (Queen of Sweden, 1632-1654)

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"In the summer of 1656 Queen Christina left Rome and travelled to France, where she secretly deliberated with Cardinal Mazarin on a war against Naples."

The Kingdom of Naples during the 17th century belonged to Spain. It was a magnet for Italian outcasts, the second largest city in Europe after Paris, and a den of unemployed iniquity.
The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's - Waldemar Januszczak
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…

About Pope Alexander VII

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Our Wiki entry ways:
"Shortly after her [EX-QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN] arrival in Rome, she quickly became the centre of Roman fashion and parties. However, following the pre-Lenten Carnival in 1656, Alexander VII quickly regretted having invited her to Rome since there existed an atmosphere of immorality which was linked to the Carnival. While the pontiff had originally hoped that Christina would become an inspiration for those considering conversion to the faith, he was dismayed that her interests were primarily political, even to the point that she helped plot the conquest of Naples with Cardinal Mazarin."

The Kingdom of Naples during the 17th century belonged to Spain. It was a magnet for Italian outcasts, the second largest city in Europe after Paris, and a den of unemployed iniquity.
The Baroque Tradition: From St. Peter's to St. Paul's - Waldemar Januszczak
https://video.search.yahoo.com/se…