Italian Baroque
Architecture
Bernini & Boromini
Baroque Architecture
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Churches designed to show power of
Catholic Church
Walls curved and bulged
Heavily decorated with shapes
and/or color
The Rivalry of
Bernini and Boromini
Bernini:
Baldacchino
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Almost 100 feet
high
Baldacchino
erected to mark
St. Peter’s tomb
and the high altar
Cornaro Chapel
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Bernini’s Legacy
Bernini's The
Throne of St. Peter
Baroque Ceiling
Paintings
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Architecture is painted in
on a flat ceiling
Andrea Pozzo
Apotheosis of Saint
Ignatius