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Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. [1]
Baroque churches were designed with a large central space, where the worshippers could be close to the altar, with a dome or cupola high overhead, allowing light to illuminate the church below. The dome was one of the central symbolic features of Baroque architecture illustrating the union between the heavens and the earth.
The Baroque emerged from the Counter Reformation as an attempt by the Catholic Church in Rome to convey its power and to emphasize the magnificence of God. The Baroque and its late variant the Rococo were the first truly global styles in the arts. Dominating more than two centuries of art and architecture in Europe, Latin America and beyond ...
The Baroque architecture period began with the creation of the basilica with crossed dome and nave.One of the first Roman structures to move away from the Mannerist conventions, like the Church of the Gesù, was the church of Church of Saint Susanna, designed by Carlo Maderno in 1596.
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation.
The Baroque architecture of the German government royal and princely houses was based on the model of France, especially the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. Examples are the Zwinger Palace in Dresden , built by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann from 1709 to 1728, initially for the holding of court festivals.
Baroque architecture in the United Kingdom (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Baroque architecture by country" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Location Date Architect(s) St Peter's Basilica: Vatican City: 1506–1615 Michelangelo, Giacomo della Porta, Carlo Maderno: Urbanistic complex of the city of Valletta Valletta, Malta 1566–1798 Francesco Laparelli, Gerolamo Cassar: Church of the Gesu: Rome, Italy 1568–1580 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Giacomo della Porta: Santa Susanna: Rome ...