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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]
The Baroque architecture period began with the creation of the basilica with crossed dome and nave.One of the first Roman structures to move away from the Mannerist conventions, like the Church of the Gesù, was the church of Church of Saint Susanna, designed by Carlo Maderno in 1596.
The Baroque (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / bə-ROK, US: /-ˈ r oʊ k /- ROHK; French:) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [1]
The church of St. Joseph is considered as one of the most representative buildings of the early Lombard Baroque, as well as one of Richini's masterpieces: [45] the church represents the point of detachment from mannerist architecture, and also served as a prototype for Baroque churches in the use of the longitudinal plan, especially in northern ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The regional styles and evolution of Baroque architecture. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 ...
Complex in form and ornate with sculpture, the baldacchino serves as a great example of the Baroque ‘style’, massive and ornate, glorifying the church and the Catholic religion. This space is an example of quadratura, an attempt to create an illusion through architecture, painting, and sculpture. Painting and sculpture create an illusion of ...
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.
French Baroque architecture, usually called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–1774). It was preceded by French Renaissance architecture and Mannerism and was followed in the second half of the 18th century by French Neoclassical architecture .