Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, ...
Baroque Architecture
Early in the 1600s, an exuberant new style called Baroque lavished buildings with complex shapes, extravagant ornaments, opulent paintings, and bold contrasts.
Baroque Architecture in Belgium ...
Baroque architecture emerges first in Italy, a land favored by an enviable confluence of forces that fostered cultural renewal and reinvention for centuries.
Features Of Baroque Architecture
Columns : Beams or structures that are vertical and support another structure.
(the white posts in middle of house, used i this case to support the overhang of the roof, and for looks) ...
Baroque Architecture examples:
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains), Rome, Italy
Sant'Agnese in Agone (Church of St. Agatha at the Circus Agonalis), Piazza Novona, Rome, Italy ...
Baroque Architecture: 1600-1750
The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of 7th-Century Japan
European Architecture 1750-1890 ...
2 French Baroque Architecture
Churches in Baroque style were also built in France in the 17th century. One of the greatest examples is the church of St Louis at Les Invalides (1676-1706), in Paris, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart.
Of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain and its Latin-American colonies, characterized by elaborate and extravagant decoration.
[Spanish churrigueresco, after José Benito Churriguera (1665-1725), Spanish architect.] ...
A style of architecture that evolved from the Mannerist period in the 17th and 18th centuries before being eclipsed by Neo-Classicism. Baroque architecture is characterized by sculptural, undulating surfaces, ovals instead of circles, ...
Salòmonica - Spanish term for solomonic column, much used in Spanish Baroque architecture.
Sanctuary - Area around the main altar of a church. See presbytery.
[1750 - 1850 A.D.] opposition and departure from elaborate Baroque architecture, moving toward simple design which leads to Gothic revival.
rood ...
San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane,Rome, by Francesco Borromini. One of the most remarkable examples of exuberant baroque architecture.
A slender, projecting arched member of a vault, used to facilitate its construction, reinforce its structure, or articulate its form in varying ways in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic, Gothic, and Baroque architecture. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger ...
It tended to look back to English prototypes of the late 17th and early 18th centuries rather than to the more expansive models of the Continent, where Baroque architecture originated.Neo-Byzantine ...
 See also: Baroque, Architecture, House, Arches, Church
  
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