Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
e. The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque, then Gothic churches and cathedrals, were built throughout the country. During this period, brick became the construction material of choice for churches, fortifications and castles, as ...
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
Timeline of architectural styles. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present. Architectural style • Architecture timeline. This timeline shows the periods of various architectural styles in a graphical fashion.
Trentwedel House. Tybjerggaard. Categories: Baroque architecture by country. Architecture in Denmark by period or style. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
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. Vatican City. 1506–1615.
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 .
Architecture of cathedrals and great churches. Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia, considered the first cathedral, traditionally believed to be constructed in 301 AD (current structure mostly from 483 AD) Salisbury Cathedral from the East 1220–1380. An essay in Early English Gothic with the tallest spire in England.
1746–49. Publication place. Denmark. Den Danske Vitruvius (English: The Danish Vitruvius) is a richly illustrated 18th-century architectural work on Danish monumental buildings of the period, written by the Danish Baroque architect Lauritz de Thurah. It was commissioned by Christian VI in 1735 and published in two volumes between 1746 and 1749.