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Italian Baroque interior design refers to high-style furnishing and interior decorating carried out in Italy during the Baroque period, which lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. In provincial areas, Baroque forms such as the clothes-press or armadio continued to be used into the 19th century.
Despite Rococo influences in the early 18th century, true Italian Rococo interiors began to be made in the late 1720s and early 1730s. The grace and charm of Rococo furnishing succeeded the heavy and imposing Baroque style. Italian Rococo interior design was in essence copied from that of the Régence and Louis XV styles.
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
The Milanese Baroque period can be divided into three parts: the early 17th century, the second 17th century and the 18th century. The first 17th century began with the appointment of Federico Borromeo as bishop of Milan in 1595 [4] in continuity with the work of his cousin Charles: in this first phase the main exponents of Milanese painting ...
Italian Rococo, inspired by Borromini's ideas, thrived in Rome from the 1720s. Talented architects like Francesco de Sanctis ( Spanish Steps , 1723) and Filippo Raguzzini ( Piazza Sant'Ignazio [it], 1727) – had limited influence outside of Italy, as did Sicilian Baroque architects such as Giovanni Battista Vaccarini , Andrea Palma , and ...
The Seicento (/ s eɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ n t oʊ /, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˌsɛiˈtʃɛnto]) is Italian history and culture during the 17th century.The Seicento saw the end of the Renaissance movement in Italy and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque era.
The interior of the Gesu was a study of the grandeur that Roman classicism could offer when combined with simplicity in large scale. High windows puncture the nave's barrel vault, as a ring of windows in the drum of the dome bring beams of natural light into the interior, creating a dramatic contrast of light and darkness in relatively dim space.
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 .