Why we're still baroque-ing around the Christmas tree

We think of Christmas decorations as a Victorian invention, but they actually link us back to the baroque age – when bling and glitz formed a stairway to heavenIt’s the time of year when the baroque makes a comeback. Angels are everywhere, garlands are festooned about the place, and everything that can be decorated, is.We tend to think of Christmas decorations as a 19th-century idea. In Britain, the first Christmas tree was installed by Queen Charlotte in 1800, and the definitive Vic