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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 ...
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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.
Woodstock, England 1705–1722 Sir John Vanbrugh: Zwinger Palace: Dresden, Germany 1709–1732 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann: Pommersfelden castle: Pommersfelden, Germany 1711–1719 Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt: Karlskirche: Vienna, Austria 1715–1737 Johann Fischer von Erlach: Mafra Palace: Mafra, Portugal 1717–1730
Den Danske Vitruvius is a valuable source of knowledge about the design of many buildings and landscaped gardens in mid-18th century Denmark, many of which no longer exist. Some, like Copenhagen's city gates , have been demolished, while others, such as the first Christiansborg , were destroyed by fire.
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
The architecture of England is the architecture of modern England and in the historic Kingdom of England. It often includes buildings created under English influence or by English architects in other parts of the world, particularly in the English and later British colonies and Empire , which developed into the Commonwealth of Nations .
Queen Anne Style architecture flourished in England from about 1660 to about 1720, even though the Queen's reign covered only the period 1702–1714. Buildings in the Queen Anne style are strongly influenced by Dutch domestic architecture: typically, they are simple rectilinear designs in red brick, with an undemonstrative charm.