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Baroque
Baroque: ornate European style of art, architecture and design, c. 1580–1750, originating in Italy; also called barroco-derived label. Defined by drama, movement, fused arts, and Catholic Counter-Reformation patronage under Bernini and Caravaggio.
Baroque (group)
Baroque (バロック) is a Japanese visual-kei rock band formed in 2001 around vocalist ryou and guitarist Kei, which reached Nippon Budokan in 2003, disbanded in 2004, and reunited in 2011.
Baroque literature
Baroque literature is the European literature of roughly 1600 to 1720, marked by the Thirty Years' War, strict poetic rules, and vanitas themes; Martin Opitz and Andreas Gryphius led it.
Baroque music
Baroque music, Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750 between the Renaissance and Classical eras, defined by basso continuo, monody, opera, the concerto, and composers such as Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi.
Baroque novel
The Baroque novel is the long, elaborate prose fiction of seventeenth-century Europe, written between roughly the 1620s and the early eighteenth century, best remembered for Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus of 1668.
Baroque painting
Baroque painting: dramatic European painting style originating in Rome around 1600, flourishing to about 1750. Also known as Counter-Reformation art; defined by chiaroscuro, tenebrism, diagonal compositions, and emotional intensity, with Caravaggio, the Carracci, and Rubens as leading figures.
Baroque pop
Baroque pop, also called baroque rock, is a mid-1960s pop/rock style fusing rock songwriting with classical instrumentation such as harpsichord, strings, horns, and oboe; pioneered by the Left Banke, the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach, later revived as 1990s chamber pop.
Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley: wine region (GI) north-east of Adelaide, South Australia, part of the Barossa zone with Eden Valley; famed for full-bodied Shiraz from vines dating to 1843, Old Vine Charter, and 53,593-tonne 2025 crush.
Barot House
Barot House is a 2019 Hindi-language ZEE5 Original psychological thriller directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna, starring Amit Sadh, Manjari Fadnnis, and Aaryan Menghji, about a Daman family whose daughters are murdered; streamed from 7 August 2019.
Barq's
Barq's is a caffeinated American root beer created by Edward C. Barq, Sr. in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1898 at the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works, franchised widely by 1950, and purchased by Coca-Cola in 1995.
Barracuda (song)
"Barracuda" is a 1977 hard rock song by Heart, lead single of Little Queen, written by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Roger Fisher, and Michael DeRosier; it peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was written in anger at a Mushroom Records ad and a promoter's insinuation about the Wilson sisters.
Barracuda (upcoming film)
Barracuda is an upcoming Neil Burger action thriller starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Keen as Karl and Jodie, fleeing in a stolen 1973 Plymouth Barracuda; filmed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, wrapped May 2026, in post-production, with Amazon distribution deals.
Barracuda Queens
Barracuda Queens is a Swedish Netflix crime drama created by Camilla Ahlgren, premiering June 5, 2023, about privileged teen women in Djursholm who burgle rich neighbors, loosely inspired by the real male Lidingöligan gang; season 2 followed in 2025.
Barranca abajo
Barranca abajo is a three-act rural tragedy by the Uruguayan playwright Florencio Sánchez, premiered in Buenos Aires in 1905 and depicting an aging gaucho's loss of his inherited land.
Barrandov Studios
Barrandov Studios (Barrandov Studio a.s.), founded 1931 in Prague by Miloš Havel and named after geologist Joachim Barrande, is one of Europe's largest and oldest film studios, with 18 sound stages, a 160,000 m² backlot, and over 5,000 productions including Casino Royale and the Czech New Wave.
Barrel-aged beer
Barrel-aged beer is beer matured in wooden barrels, typically used bourbon or wine barrels, so the wood and its previous contents flavor the beer before packaging.
Barren Illusions
Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ôinaru gen'ei), also Barren Illusion, is a 1999 Japanese drama-romance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, made with Film School of Tokyo students, about Haru and Michi in near-future 2005 Tokyo testing a pollen drug, premiered at Venice 1999.
Barret Wallace
Barret Wallace is the AVALANCHE leader in Final Fantasy VII and its remake trilogy, a gun-armed father figure from the destroyed town of Corel; designed by Tetsuya Nomura, voiced in English by John Eric Bentley.
Barrett Doss
Barrett Doss, American actress and singer, played Vic Hughes on ABC's Station 19 (2018–2024) and Rita Hanson in Broadway's Groundhog Day (2017, Theatre World Award); films Marshall and The Noel Diary; now Emily Henderson in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie.
Barrett Foa
Barrett Foa, American actor, singer, and dancer; Eric Beale on NCIS: Los Angeles; Broadway roles include Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!, and Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; not the Barrett civil engineering or robotics firms.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Barrett Wilbert Weed (born 1988, Boston) is an American musical theater actress who originated Veronica Sawyer in Heathers: The Musical and Janis Sarkisian in Mean Girls on Broadway, and voices Octavia in Helluva Boss.
Barrie Chase
Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933) is an American dancer and actress, daughter of screenwriter Borden Chase, best known as Fred Astaire's final TV dance partner (1958–1968) and for Cape Fear, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Flight of the Phoenix.
Barriemore Barlow
Barriemore Barlow is an English drummer born 1949 in Birmingham, Jethro Tull's drummer 1971-1980 on Thick as a Brick through Stormwatch, later working with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Tandoori Cassette.
Barrio Boyzz
Barrio Boyzz, also credited as The Barrio Boyzz, were a bilingual Latin pop and R&B vocal group formed in New York in 1991, with two platinum Spanish albums.
Barrio Fino
Barrio Fino is a 2004 reggaeton album by Puerto Rican singer Daddy Yankee, released on El Cartel Records and anchored by "Gasolina"; it became the top-selling Latin album of the 2000s.
Barrio Triste
Barrio Triste is a 2025 found-footage feature debut by Stillz (Matías Vásquez), produced by Harmony Korine's EDGLRD with a score by Arca, about Medellín teens in 1987 who steal a news camera; it premiered at Venice Orizzonti.
Barrister Babu
Barrister Babu (बैरिस्टर बाबू), a Colors TV Hindi period drama by Shashi Sumeet Productions (2020–2021, 408 episodes), follows Anirudh saving child bride Bondita from sati and educating her to become a barrister.
Barro negro pottery
Barro negro pottery is burnished black ceramic from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, colored by low-oxygen reduction firing and shined by quartz burnishing without glaze, a Zapotec tradition over 2,500 years old.
Barroco de Indias
Barroco de Indias, a term coined by Mariano Picón Salas, names the Baroque of 17th- and 18th-century colonial Latin America, transformed by cultural syncretism into a style distinct from Europe's.
Barron's Cove
Barron's Cove is a 2025 American crime drama thriller, Evan Ari Kelman's feature directorial debut, starring Garrett Hedlund as a father who kidnaps the boy tied to his son's death; released June 6, 2025 by Well Go USA.