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    The document provides an overview of Baroque and Rococo architecture. It discusses that Baroque architecture emerged in the early 17th century in Italy and emphasized dramatic effects, elaborate ornamentation, and grandeur. It then spread across Europe. Rococo architecture developed in the mid-18th century as a more graceful and ornamental offshoot of Baroque, using flowing, naturalistic forms. Distinctive features of Baroque included dramatic light/shadow, oval shapes, and illusionistic effects. Rococo was characterized by lightness, elegance, and curving natural motifs in decoration.

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    The document provides an overview of Baroque and Rococo architecture. It discusses that Baroque architecture emerged in the early 17th century in Italy and emphasized dramatic effects, elaborate ornamentation, and grandeur. It then spread across Europe. Rococo architecture developed in the mid-18th century as a more graceful and ornamental offshoot of Baroque, using flowing, naturalistic forms. Distinctive features of Baroque included dramatic light/shadow, oval shapes, and illusionistic effects. Rococo was characterized by lightness, elegance, and curving natural motifs in decoration.

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    The document provides an overview of Baroque and Rococo architecture. It discusses that Baroque architecture emerged in the early 17th century in Italy and emphasized dramatic effects, elaborate ornamentation, and grandeur. It then spread across Europe. Rococo architecture developed in the mid-18th century as a more graceful and ornamental offshoot of Baroque, using flowing, naturalistic forms. Distinctive features of Baroque included dramatic light/shadow, oval shapes, and illusionistic effects. Rococo was characterized by lightness, elegance, and curving natural motifs in decoration.

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    The document provides an overview of Baroque and Rococo architecture. It discusses that Baroque architecture emerged in the early 17th century in Italy and emphasized dramatic effects, elaborate ornamentation, and grandeur. It then spread across Europe. Rococo architecture developed in the mid-18th century as a more graceful and ornamental offshoot of Baroque, using flowing, naturalistic forms. Distinctive features of Baroque included dramatic light/shadow, oval shapes, and illusionistic effects. Rococo was characterized by lightness, elegance, and curving natural motifs in decoration.

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    History of Architecture

    Baroque & Rococo


    Architecture

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    Trevi Fountain in Rome
    Baroque & Rococo

    The full Baroque aesthetic


    emerged during the Early
    Baroque, and High Baroque;
    both periods were led by Italy.
    The Baroque age
    concluded with the French-
    born Rococo style (ca. 1725-
    1800), in which the violence
    and drama of Baroque was
    quieted to a gentle, playful
    dynamism.
    The Late Baroque and
    Rococo periods were led by
    France
    The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used
    exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to
    produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in
    sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance,
    theatre, and music.
    The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread
    to most of Europe.
    The popularity and success of the Baroque style was
    encouraged by the Catholic Church, to response to the
    Protestant Reformation, that Baroque architecture and art
    as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumph,
    power and control.
    Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque
    era, begun in late 16th- century Italy, that took the
    Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used
    it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion.
    It was characterized by new explorations of form, light
    and shadow, and dramatic intensity.
    The Baroque was, initially at least, directly linked to the
    Counter-Reformation, a movement within the Catholic
    Church to reform itself in response to the Protestant
    Reformation.
    Baroque architecture and its embellishments were on
    the one hand more accessible to the emotions and on
    the other hand, a visible statement of the wealth and
    power of the Church.
    Francesco Borromini and Gianlorenzo
    Bernini (bitter rivals) worked on the church.

    The most impressive display of


    Church of SantAgnese in Churrigueresque (Spanish
    Baroque style) spatial
    Agone, in Piazza Navona,
    Belfry in Mons, Belgium decoration found in the west
    rebuilt in the Baroque style. designed by architect faade of the Cathedral of
    Louis Ledoux Santiago de Compostela.
    Distinctive features of Baroque architecture

    In churches, broader naves and sometimes given oval


    forms.
    Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete architectural
    elements.
    Dramatic use of light; either strong light-and-shade
    contrasts, or uniform lighting by means of several
    windows.
    Opulent use of color and ornaments (putti or figures
    made of wood (often gilded), plaster or stucco, marble or
    faux finishing).
    Large-scale ceiling frescoes.
    Distinctive features of Baroque architecture

    An external faade often characterized by a dramatic


    central projection.
    The interior is a shell for painting, sculpture and stucco
    Illusory effects like an art technique involving extremely
    realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that
    the depicted objects appear in three dimensions and the
    blending of painting and architecture.
    Pear-shaped domes in the Bavarian, Czech, Polish and
    Ukrainian Baroque
    .Marian and Holy Trinity columns erected in Catholic
    countries, often in thanksgiving for ending a plague
    Weltenburg Abbey, Bavaria,
    Germany

    Holy Trinity Column in


    Olomouc, Czech Republic
    Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus at the "Argentina.Its
    facade is "the first truly baroque faade", introducing the
    baroque style into architecture.
    The church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, an important example of Roman Baroque
    architecture, was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with Giovanni de'Rossi.
    Unlike San Carlo, SantAndrea is set back from the street and the space outside the
    church is enclosed by low curved quadrant walls.
    An oval cylinder encases the dome, and large volutes transfer the lateral thrust. The
    main faade to the street has a pedimented frame at the center of which a
    semicircular porch with two Ionic columns marks the main entrance.
    The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by
    Italian architect Nicola Salvi. it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of
    the most famous fountains in the world.
    Rococo Architecture
    Rococo

    Rococo style, in interior


    design, the decorative
    arts, painting,
    architecture, and
    sculpture that
    originated in Paris in the
    early 18th century
    It was soon adopted
    throughout France and
    later in other countries,
    principally Germany
    and Austria.
    It is characterized by
    lightness, elegance, the word Rococo is derived from the
    and an exuberant use French word rocaille, which
    of curving, natural forms denoted the shell-covered rock
    in ornamentation.
    At the outset the Rococo style
    represented a reaction against
    the ponderous design of Louis
    XIVs Palace of Versailles and
    the official Baroque art of his
    reign.
    Several interior designers,
    painters developed a lighter
    and more intimate style of
    decoration for the new
    residences of nobles in Paris.
    In the Rococo style, walls,
    ceilings, and moldings were
    decorated with delicate
    interlacings of curves and
    counter-curves based on the
    fundamental shapes of the C
    and the S, as well as with
    shell forms and other natural
    shapes.

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