Baroque.

And then you get these extraordinary baroque decorations all over the place.

Recently, I've also made some rather highbrow baroque borders out of lowbrow pasta.

Yet you recognize these baroque ornaments, this stucco hand holding a cluster of grapes.

woodwork, cutglass mirrors, oldfashioned paintings, stucco garlands with baroque ornaments, trompel'œil capitals, false doors, fake columns, painted perspectives, false exits.

These really are a people who live and breathe the realm of the sacred, a baroque religiosity that is simply awesome.

in this edifice of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel, where one endless corridor follows another, silent and deserted, heavy with cold, dark woodwork, stucco, molded paneling,

through these salons and galleries, in this edifice of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel, where one endless corridor follows another, silent, empty corridors heavy with cold, dark woodwork,

along these corridors, through these salons and galleries, in this edifice of a bygone era, this sprawling, sumptuous, baroque, gloomy hotel, where one endless corridor follows another silent rooms where one's footsteps are absorbed

Consider Moscow, a highly seasoned imitator (though nowhere in the league of St. Petersburg, that baroque Italianate city on the Neva, as an urban mimic). Moscow nowadays has all the trappings of high end capitalism Prada, Fouchon, Rolls Royce.