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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.
English Baroque architecture — an English Baroque architectural style that developed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. See also the preceding Category:Jacobean architecture and the succeeding Category:Georgian architecture
Norman Foster's 'Gherkin' (2004) rises above the sixteenth century St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London. The architecture of England is the architecture of the historic Kingdom of England up to 1707, and of England since then, but is deemed to include buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English overseas ...
English Baroque is a casual term. It is sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture, that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe, between the Great Fire of London (1666) and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).
However, English Baroque often deviated from the stereotype elements of the baroque style in other European countries and other features of the cathedral such as the double towers on the main west facade are undeniably baroque in character. [35] St Mary-le-Bow by Christopher Wren (1680). The tower displays a creative blend of classical ...
English Baroque architecture (4 C, 27 P) N. ... Pages in category "Baroque architectural styles" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. [1] It is named after King James VI and I, with whose reign (1603–1625 in England) it is associated. At the start of James' reign, there was little stylistic break in architecture, as Elizabethan trends continued their development.
The Baroque style of architecture was a result of doctrines adopted by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent in 1545–1563, in response to the Protestant Reformation. The first phase of the Counter-Reformation had imposed a severe, academic style on religious architecture, which had appealed to intellectuals but not the mass of ...