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The following is a list of examples of various types of Baroque architecture since its origins. Building Picture Location Date Architect(s) St Peter's Basilica:
Baroque church buildings in India (7 P) Pages in category "Baroque architecture in India" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Plate 09, The Dil Khoosa Palace during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857 A map showing the British positions and the key positions of both Dilkusha Kothi and La Martinière College, towards the lower right. The military positions in 1857 are shown on the map illustrated. [6] The Dilkusha gardens are at the lower right near St Paul's College.
Baroque architecture in India (1 C, 10 P) ... Baroque architecture in Saint Kitts and Nevis (1 P) Baroque architecture in Slovakia (2 C, 4 P)
Baroque architecture in India (1 C, 10 P) Bengali architecture ... Gothic Revival architecture in India (1 C, 18 P) H. Hindu architecture (3 C, 21 P) I.
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]
By the time of Tughlaqs Islamic architecture in India had adopted some features of earlier Indian architecture, such as the use of a high plinth, [84] and often mouldings around its edges, as well as columns and brackets and hypostyle halls. [85] After the death of Firoz the Tughlaqs declined, and the following Delhi dynasties were weak.
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.