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Baroque Architecture: - Prakriti Goel 026 Sec - A Sem - 4
Baroque Architecture: - Prakriti Goel 026 Sec - A Sem - 4
Baroque Architecture: - Prakriti Goel 026 Sec - A Sem - 4
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I N E U R O P E A N D T H E N E W W O R L D F O R A C E N T U RY A N D A
H A L F , C H A RA C T E R I Z E D BY F R E E A N D S C U L P T U RA L U S E
O F T H E C L A S S I C A L O R D E R S A N D O R N A M E N T , DY N A M I C
O P P O S I T I O N A N D I N T E R P E N E T R AT I O N O F S PA C E S , A N D
T H E D RA M AT I C C O M B I N E D E F F E C T S O F A RC H I T E C T U R E ,
S C U L P T U R E , PA I N T I N G , A N D T H E D E C O RAT I V E A RT S .
BAROQUE
ARCHITECTURE
BACKGROUND
The baroque style appeared in Rome, Italy around the year 1600,
as a demand of the church for new art.
The representatives of arts were demanded by the Roman Catholic
Church in 1545 1563 to create paintings and sculptures that
even the illiterate can comprehend.
This decision of the church actually offered inspiration for Baroque
artists, which appeared, however, a generation later.
This art style continued to spread from Italy towards Western
Europe, especially in the first half of the XVIIth century, and later
towards Central, Northern and the Eastern Europe in the last half
of the same century and at the beginning of the XVIIIth century.
Latin America was also strongly influenced by the Baroque Style.
Many catholic churches, but also public buildings, official and
private residences, built in the XVIII-th and XIX-th century are
clearly of Baroque origin.
BAROQUE
The Definitions:
Baroque = an emphasis of sculptural & painted
forms
display shapes of nature leaves, shells, scrolls
(floral elements)
More complex geometric forms
Compiled with Painting to create illusion of depth
Predominately used in religious buildings
Italy, France, Spain, Germany & Austria, 17th &
18th Century
ELEMENTS
Baroque Style evolved from the classic forms of the Renaissance, but it
differs by new details and trends: colossal buildings as proportions with
dramatic appearance, pompous facades with gables modified in various
means, double towers, tall and unshapely domes, annex buildings with
beautiful ornaments, windows with irregular forms.
In the painting decoration the artists renounced on creating profane and
pagan themes (nudes and mythological types); instead, the
ornamentation got excessively rich, with twisted columns shaped as
snails with fantasy figures.
The straight lines become bended, the oval shapes arch and take more
winding forms, the plain surfaces completely disappear and make room
for an abundance of ornaments.
The buildings become more and more a pretext to use decorations or an
aggregation of ornaments of the most various and bizarre.
The interiors dazzle with the lavishness of gold, silver, silks and rich
tapestry and luxurious furnishings.
MAJOR ARCHITECTS
Maderno
made the Vatican s faade
His work combined the dome with the creation of
a space where the pope could appear publically
Longhena
His design was selected for building Santa Maria
Della Salute
It is building of central plan with a great dome
that become the symbol of Venice
Bermi
Created a fusion of architecture , painting and
sculpture
used a palace faade that become a model with
massive pilasters above a restricted base
Works : Saint Peters Square , Baldaquin
Vaticanos faade
Palazzo Barberini
Versailles palace
CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Floor Plan
EXTERIOR FEATURE
Dome
Curved lines
Spiral Colu
Rounded Arche
Highly
decorated
walls
Interior
Feature
Painted ceiling
Painted in
real gold
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