Baroque Architecture/polish-lithuanian Commonwealth

Famous quotes containing the words baroque, architecture and/or commonwealth:

    “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”
    —Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923)

    “The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)