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Title: Introducing the newsletter Abstract: The Baroque Routes perhaps represent the most eminently European cultural movement of early modern history. By acknowledging and attempting to revive this movement through research and other activities, the Council of Europe has literally resurrected the spirit of Baroque Europe - a spirit which contributed in no small way to an elegant form of living in urban and rural environments which are still there to be admired and lived in today. Understandably, a number of countries have since 1996 responded generously to the Baroque Routes initiative of the Council of Europe by organizing exhibitions, conferences, concerts of baroque music and even by producing high quality publications on specialist subjects or general themes, such as guidebooks to important baroque monuments in cities as far apart as Valletta and Vilnius. These Council of Europe events have shown the wonderful interaction, indeed interweaving, of several different European expressions during that period of time between the last third of the sixteenth century and the second third of the eighteenth century.

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Title: Facade decorating techniques Abstract: The idea for the project 'Facade Decorating Techniques' germinated at the Austrian Conference for the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural Heritage in September 1997. Among those invited were also representatives from Bavaria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Discussions had revealed that there was still a good deal to clarify in the preparation phase of various restoration measures that were to be carried out in 1998. Therefore, it was agreed to discuss and clear up these questions, which after all were of general conservational interest within the framework of a Raphael Project.

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Title: The Baroque, between heaven and earth Abstract: The Baroque is a movement which is generally considered to have begun in the last third of the sixteenth century and to have ended in the mid eighteenth covering the period between classicism and neo-classicism. During this period, however, the Baroque civilisation expressed itself in a multitude of different styles and forms, whether in artistic, philosophical or social terms. To perceive the movement's relative unity, it is therefore necessary to understand that it emerged at the end of a dark, troubled century, one in which human values had gone astray and people had lost their ideological references. Description: This paper has been reproduced from the publication European Cultural Routes edited by Giovanni Mangion and Isabel Tamen (Council of Europe, 1998)

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Title: The Baroque routes : a brief record of activities Abstract: A brief record of activities with regard to the Baroque routes in Europe is outlined, including seminars, projects, concerts, conferences, book launches and exhibitions.

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