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The etymology of the word "baroque" is controversial, but probably due to the expression Portuguese aljofre barroco " which means "irregular pearl", hence the adjective "French" baroque ", which takes in the eighteenth century the meaning of" bizarre ". In Italian the word appears, in principle, in reference to the medieval scholastic philosophy, a description of that form of syllogism characterized by consistency and surface fragility of content. In the eighteenth century, neoclassical art critics - Winckelmann, Militia, Quatremère de Quincy - use the term baroque, with negative sense, referring to the seventeenth-century artists accused of having abandoned the classic style for solutions considered extravagant. Specifically, the militia threw Pietro da Cortona, Bernini and Borromini in Rome of identifying Thirty years of the seventeenth century, the birthplace of the Baroque. A return to the latter contributed to a positive value for the publication in 1888, the text of H. Wölfflin entitled "Renaissance and Baroque," which, by analyzing the evolution of Italian architecture from the mid-sixteenth century to the early seventeenth, recognizes an innovative shift in the Baroque, Renaissance and autonomous from the principles of classicism and with its characteristic features. The term Baroque is still full of nuances and, therefore, used in connection with a variety of phenomena.