The history of world culture has a huge number of styles and trends. Sometimes it is not so easy to understand them, but the most basic, classical, types should be known to everyone.

Gothic, XII-XVI centuries.
A fearsome-majestic style in architecture and painting, which can serve as a perfect background for the development of events in some horror film. Disproportionately huge and sharp towers of cathedrals, which, it seems, can easily be cut, and a couple of other monsters lurking somewhere above the carved arches - Gothic conceals a lot of secrets and mysteries.

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Renaissance, XV-XVI centuries.
It was during the Renaissance that posed the same mysterious Gioconda, and Michelangelo created the legendary statue of David. Creators were so prolific that they left to the world a huge number of masterpieces in painting, architecture, music, literature. It was a truly inspiring time.

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Baroque, XVII-XVIII centuries.
The magnificent and pompous baroque style fully justifies its name (from the Italian barocco - "bizarre", "strange"). Naturalness in those days was not in high esteem, because both ladies and gentlemen puffed on their heads huge wigs and showered with powder. Interiors also did not stay aside - more gold and brocade, elegant candelabra, sophisticated patterns - a sense of proportion was clearly considered a sign of bad taste.

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Rococo, XVIII century.
Rococo - all the same baroque, but even more flirty and elegant: mostly the style was present in architecture and interior design. An incredible amount of floral ornaments and patterns, an abundance of decor, angelic figures - everything is very sweet and too sweet, like a huge and sticky sweet wool.

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Classicism, XVII-XIX centuries.
The satiety of "whipped cream" of baroque and rococo is gradually replaced by laconicism of classicism. Architects and sculptors turn to antique standards, artists also do not remain indifferent to classical art and draw inspiration from the works of the masters of the Renaissance. Of course, the minimalist Scandinavian interior is still far away, but the decor has become much smaller, and the curly-headed cornflowers, along with the floral splendor of the ornaments, have finally sunk into oblivion.

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Romanticism, XVII-XIX centuries.
The unity of man and nature in the image of a noble savage (who would have thought of this in the heyday of baroque), rebellious spirit and character are the main features of romanticism. The ideal of romantics was freedom, the struggle for national independence, and these features were very clearly manifested in painting - on the canvases of Charles Bryullov, Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix. It is in the era of romanticism that the phenomena of tourism, mountaineering and picnic are designed to restore the unity of man and nature.
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