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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 ...
Architectural style • Architecture timeline: 1900–present. 6000BC–1000AD • 1000–1750 • 1750–1900 • 1900–Present
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.
London, England 1675–1710 Christopher Wren: Wilanów Palace: Warsaw, Poland 1677–1729 Augustyn Wincenty Locci, Giovanni Spazzio: Les Invalides: Paris, France 1679–1708 Jules Hardouin Mansart: Troja Palace: Prague, Czech Republic 1679–1685 Jean Baptiste Mathey, Giovanni Domenico Orsi: Branicki Palace: Białystok, Poland 1691–1697 ...
Baroque architecture in Denmark. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. B. Baroque architecture in Copenhagen (1 C, 27 P) D ...
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 .
English Baroque architecture — an English Baroque architectural style that developed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Subcategories. This category has the ...
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 .