Baroque architecture developed from the late 16th century to 1750 across Europe and America. It was characterized by dramatic use of light, large-scale ceiling frescoes, and interiors designed as shells for painting and sculpture. In Italy, architects like Bernini and Borromini created buildings fusing architecture, painting and sculpture, using techniques like false perspective. In France, architecture under Louis XIV aimed to show the power of the monarchy through ordered, rational designs like the Louvre and Versailles palaces. The Rococo style later emphasized luxurious interior decoration with asymmetrical designs and exotic influences in countries across Europe.

1. BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE
BY :- sakshi vaswani

2. Cronologyand geography
• Fromtheend of 16th century until 1750.
• Geography: wholeEurope+America.
• Characteristicsof theperiod:
– Religiousand political conflicts
– Geographical colonization
– Scientificdevelopment
– New astrologicaldiscoveries⇨Sun centreof Universe

3. BaroqueStyle
• Thewordmeans imperfection
• New naturalism that reflects the scientific
advances
• Taste for dramaticactionand emotion:
– Colourand light contrasted
– Rich textures
– Asymmetrical spaces
– Diagonal plans
– New subjects: landscape,genre,still-life

4. BaroqueStyle
• Variety within thestyle
• Art at theserviceof power
• Twomain centres:
– Rome:Pope’
sauthority
– France:powerful monarchy
• Influenceof theCounter-Reform
• Worryabout plasticvalues

5. Architecture:Characteristics
• Longnarrownavesreplaced by broaderorcircular
forms
• Dramaticuseof light

6. Architecture:Characteristics
• Dramaticuseof light
• Large-scaleceilingfrescoes

7. Architecture:Characteristics
• Large-scaleceilingfrescoes
• Interior ashell for painting andsculpture

8. Architecture:Characteristics
• Illusoryeffects
• EkialdekoEuropan tipula-kupulak

9. Architecture:Italy
• They evolvedfromtheRenaissanceforms
• Movement toward grand structureswith flowing,
curvingshapes
• Landscapewasfrequently incorporated
• New elements as gardens, squares, courtyards and
fountains.
• Influence of the rebuildingof Saint Peter, in which
classical forms integratedwith thecity.

10. Architecture:Italy
• Maderno
– HemadetheVatican’
sfaçade
– His work destroyed partially Michelangelo’
sdesign
– His work combinedthe domewith the creationof an space
wherethe Popecouldappearpublicaly
– Otherworks:
• SantamariadellaVittoria
• PalazzoBarberini

11. Vaticano’s façade
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Palazzo Barberini

12. Architecture:Italy
• Longhena
– Heworkedmainly in Venice
– His designwas selectedfor building Santa Maria della
Salute
– It is buildingof central plan with agreat domethat
becamethesymbol of Venice.

13. Santa Maria della Salute
Ca’ Rezzonico
Santa Maria of Nazaret

14. Architecture:Italy
• Bernini
– Hecreatedafusion of architecture,painting and sculpture
– Heusedfalse perspectiveand trompe-l’oeilto impact
– Heusedapalacefaçadethat becameamodelwith massive pilasters
abovearusticatedbase.
– Works:
• Saint Peter’
s square
• Baldaquin

15. San Peter’s colomnade
San Pete’r Baldaquine

16. Architecture:Italy
• Borromini
– His works springfromthe contrast betweenconvention
and freedom
– Heused tradition asabasis, but not asalaw
– Works:
• San CarloalleQuattroFontane
• San CarloBorromeo
• Oratoriodegli Fillipenses

17. San Carlo alle quattro fontane
San Ivo’s dome

18. Oratorio degli Filipensi
Stairs
Palacio Spada (trompe l’oeil)

19. Architecture:France
• It was elegant, ordered,rational and restraided
• It is arectilinear model, closerto classicism
• It aimed at showingthepowerof LouisXIV
monarchy.
• Themain worksare:
– Louvre: LeVau and Perrault
– Versailles:LeBrun, LeVau, LeNotre

20. Louvre palace

21. Versailles palace

22. Architecture:Central Europe
• It began laterduetotheThirty Years’War
• Austria developedthe Imperialstyle with Fischervon Erlach
and Hildebrandt
• In Germany,in the CatholicSouth Jesuitmodelswere
followedwhilein theProtestant North workswereless
important
• Palacearchitecturewasimportant in thewholearea

23. Fisher von Erlach: Karlskirtche and Schönbrunn
Hildebrandt: Belvedere palace

24. Architecture:Englandand Russia
• In England is important Wren
• Baroquewas the style usedto designtown planning
• In Russia it is very decorative, in quite traditional
churchessometimesmadeof brick;laterit was
imported from the Low Countries and finally it
becamean extravagant art.

25. Wren: San Paul
Cambridge library
Wren: Cambridge
Emmanuel chapel

26. Architecture:Spain
• At the beginning it continued the pattern of the
Escorial
• Decoration tendsto concentrate just in thefaçade
• The Rococowas the time of the development of the
Churrigueresque style, with exaggerated decoration
aroundthedoor
• ThePlateresque (last Renaissancethat imitates the
work onsilver) and the Churrigueresquewere
exportedto America,mainly to Mexico.

27. Jose Benito Churriguera: Salamanca’s
San Esteban convent altarpiece
Alberto Churriguera: Salamanca’s main
square

28. Rococo
• French stylefor interiordecoration
• It developpedmainly at theend of 1720
• It was used in othercountriesas aFrench Style
• Characteristics:
– Galante:luxuriousthings
– Contraste:asymmety
– Chinoiserie:exoticcharacterimitatingChinesearts

29. RococoArchitecture
• It caught thepublictaste
• Small and curiousbuildings
• Elegant parlours, dainty sitting-roomsand boudoirs
• Walls, ceiling, furnitureand worksof metal asdecoration
• Ensembleof sportive, fantastic and sculptured forms
• Horizontal lines almost completely supressed
• Shell-likecurves
• Wallscoveredby stucco
• Whiteand bright colours.