Baroque architecture began in the early 1600s in Rome and spread across Europe, characterized by dramatic shapes and motifs. Key features included spiral columns, domes, rounded arches, and painted ceilings with gold. The style was popular for churches and palaces and encouraged by the Catholic Church. Rococo architecture emerged later as a more ornate style using elaborate curves, shells, leaves, and asymmetry with light colors. Examples include the Hermitage Winter Palace and Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg as well as the Wieskirche in Bavaria. Both styles marked a shift from classical to more expressive designs.

1. Baroque and Rococo
Architecture
By Sultan Murat YILMAZ

2. Baroque
– often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated
motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama,
tension, exuberance, and grandeur.
– The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread to most of
Europe
– encouraged by the Catholic Church during Counter Reformation
against Protestant Reformation

3. Two most popular types of Architectural
commission
– Palaces – Churches

4. Features of Baroque
Architecture
Exterior and Interior

5. Spiral Columns
Exterior Feature Dome
Rounded Arches
Curved lines

6. Interior Feature Painted ceiling
Painted in real gold
Highly
decorated
walls

7. Other features
– Floor Plan
Those typical of Baroque architecture were the ellipse or the oval, or far
more complex schemes derived from complicated geometrical figures.

8. Early baroque (ca. 1600-25)
Saint Peter’s Basilica,
Vatican City

9. High Baroque (ca. 1625-75)
The Church of Sant'Andrea al
Quirinale,
designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
By Francesco Borromini

10. ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE

11. ROCOCO
………………………………….…………………
An artistic style of the 18th century
characterized by fanciful curved
asymmetrical forms and elaborate
ornamentation.
"Late Baroque"

12. Hermitage Winter Palace
in St. Petersburg, Russia
Smolny Cathedral
in St. Petersburg, Russia
Wieskirche in
Bavaria
EXAMPLES OF ROCOCO
ARCHITECTURES

13. FEATURES
OF ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE
ELABORATE
CURVES
AND SCROLLS
Architectural style of Rococo
include numerous curves as
well as scrolls that resemble ‘S’
and ‘C’.
ROCAILLE
Ornaments shaped
like shells and
plants.
ACANTHUS
LEAF
one of the basic motifs of
Rococo design.
ASYMMETRY
LIGHT, PASTEL
COLORS

14. Church of Il Gesù
(Rome, 1584)
BRIEF HISTORY
Hospicio de San
Fernando (Madrid, 1722)

15. Beginning of the Baroque and the end of
the Rococo.
SHIFT FROM THE CLASSICAL
TO THE EXPRESSIONISTIC

16. VS
BAROQUE ROCOCO

17. Thank you.
SULTAN MURAT YILMAZ
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