Answer: Baroque
The Baroque is an extremely ornate and extravagant style of architecture, music, painting, sculpture and other arts. It dominated European art from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. This style was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a way to oppose the simplicity and austerity of Protestant art.
The word was originally used in jewelry to describe pearls which were imperfectly round and uneven. It was also used to refer to something that was bizarre and uselessly complicated.
