Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.
Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.
Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.
Overly and needlessly complicated.
Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.
Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period.
An ornate, detailed style.
Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.