Baroque Architecture

"In Baroque architecture, new emphasis was placed on bold massing, colonnades, domes, light-and-shade (chiaroscuro), 'painterly' color effects, and the bold play of volume and void. In interiors, Baroque movement around and through a void informed monumental staircases that had no parallel in previous architecture" (wikipedia). Architecture of the Baroque period was a direct response to that of the Renaissance "The Baroque period dates from the time when architects began to revolt against the pedantic rules of the Later Renaissance schoolmen, and it lasted until they tired of their untrammelled (not confined or limited) freedom and returned to their pedantry once more" (Briggs 23) Just as the music of the time, we see architects moving away from what we had come to know as "beauty" or "aesthetic" and dove into a new way of thinking and being. This new architecture remarkably parallels the music of the Baroque."Examples of architecture in the period so pure, so severe, so obviously free form", just as musicians made a move away from the conventionality of Renaissance music. (Briggs 22)

"For architecture is always the last art to feel a revolutionary change. It is too structural, too permanent, too eternal, one might almost say, to be blown from its course by every trifling aesthetic movement" (Briggs 23). Is architecture more "permanent" than any other art form? How may architectural entities have we to show from 200 BC? and yet we can date cave drawings and the epitaph of Seikilos back to BC... Why would one assume that architecture is more permanent or eternal than music? because it is tangible?