THE BAROQUE
THE BAROQUE
FEATURES
• Baroque architecture is the building style of
the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth
century in Italy, that took
the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance
architecture and used it in a new rhetorical
and theatrical fashion, often to express the
triumph of the Catholic Church and the
absolutist state. It was characterized by new
explorations of form, light and shadow and
dramatic intensity.
• Distinctive features of Baroque architecture can
include:
• In churches, broader naves and sometimes given
oval forms
• Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete
architectural elements
• dramatic use of light; either strong light-andshade contrasts (chiaroscuro effects) or uniform
lighting by means of several windows .
The Baroque in Europe
SPAIN
POLAND
FRANCE
ROMANIA
TURKEY
SPAIN
•
As Italian Baroque influences penetrated across the Pyrenees,
they gradually superseded in popularity the restrained
classicizing approach of Juan de Herrera, which had been in
vogue since the late 16th century. As early as 1667, the
façades of Granada Cathedral (by Alonso Cano) and Jaén
Cathedral (by Eufrasio López de Rojas) suggest the artists'
fluency in interpreting traditional motifs of Spanish cathedral
architecture in the Baroque aesthetic idiom.
• The west façade of the
• Cathedral of Santiago
• de Compostela
FRANCE
• The centre of Baroque secular architecture was France,
where the open three-wing layout of the palace was
established as the canonical solution as early as the 16th
century.
• Versailles's chapel
Château de
Les Invalides in Paris
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ROMANIA
• Some representative Baroque structures in Transylvania are
the Bánffy Palace in Cluj-NAPOCA, the Brukenthal
Palace in Sibiu and the Bishopric Palace in Oradea. Besides,
almost every Transylvanian town has at least a Baroque
church, the most representatives of which being St.
George's Cathedral of Timişoara, Saint John the Baptist
Church of Târgu Mureş, the Holy Trinity
Cathedral of Blaj and the Piarist Church of Cluj.
Bánffy Palace in Cluj-Napoca,Transylvania
POLAND
• The first Baroque church in the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth was the Corpus Christi Church
in Niasvizh, Belarus (1586–1593). It also holds a
distinction of being the first domed basilica with
Baroque façade in the Commonwealth and the
first Baroque piece of art in Eastern Europe
Church of St. Anne in Krakow
Wilanów Palace in Warsaw
TURKEY
• Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire, hosts many
different varieties of Baroque architecture. AsTurkish
architecture (which is also a combination of Islamic and
Byzantine architecture) combined with Baroque, a new style
called Ottoman Baroque appeared. Baroque architecture is
mostly seen in mosques and palaces built in this centuries.
• The Clock Tower of Dolmabahçe
• Palace
Ortaköy Mosque
BAROQUE IN ROME
• Rome has plenty of big Baroque churches, like St.
Peter’s and St. John but some of the most amazing and
delightful work of men like Bernini and Borromini is
found in smaller, lesser known churches around the
city. What makes a Baroque church a great Baroque
church is a successful combination of curves,
illusionistic spaces, theatricality, and movement; the
Baroque is florid without being too flamboyant.
Sant’Andrea al Quirinale
Not surprisingly, this “pearl of the Baroque” has the
touch of the 17th-century genius Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
The master made use of multi-coloured marbles, stucco,
and gilding to give the elliptical interior a typically
Baroque richness .
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
If ever architecture could be described as
tormented, this is it. Curves and
countercurves. Convexity and concavity. A
sense of expanding space, pushing and
pulling, in a very confined interior, and you
feel the tension
Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza
This church and its courtyard (the Biblioteca
Alessandriana) are a dramatic combination of
Baroque and Renaissance architecture. The
genius of Borromini is especially apparent in
Sant’Ivo’s spiral dome, twisting its way up
from the triangular base of the church in the
most exultant, fanciful way .
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WORK MADE BY
CIAMARRA PAOLA
CATERINA GOLINI PETRARCONE
GIAMARCO LOSI