Baroque Architecture: Origins, Characteristics, and Main Representatives

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Explore Baroque architecture, its origins, defining features, and key figures. This informative overview delves into the period's influence, emphasizing bold forms, rich colors, and theatrical decoration in churches, public buildings, and more.

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- period: - the term baroque means ‘grotesque or deformed pearl’;

Characteristics of Baroque Architecture

- Baroque Architecture was influenced by the classical - - new sense of - emphasizes bold masses and curved shapes, strong lines and rich colors;

- decoration: senses in a theatrical, three dimensional, almost grotesque way.
- use in places, churches, public and government buildings, commercial buildings and military installations;

- the main representatives of this movement in England are Castle Howard planned by Sir John Vanbrugh, Westminster Abbey planned by N. Hawksmoor and St Paul’s Cathedral planned by Christopher Wren.

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