Baroque architecture Baroque architecture The Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany have been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. They are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. ...more on Wikipedia about "Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl"
Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. New architectural concerns for color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity characterize the Baroque. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baroque architecture"
Polish baroque started in the late 16th century. The first baroque structure in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the Corpus Christi Church in Nieśwież, now in Belarus. The first baroque building in present-day Poland was the St. Peter and Paul church in Kraków by Trevano. Early Polish baroque buildings were often designed by Italian architects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baroque in Poland"
::This article is about Blenheim Palace. For articles about other places named Blenheim, see Blenheim (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Blenheim Palace"
Carlo Fontana ( Bruciato, Canton Ticino, 1634 or 1638 - Roma 1714) was the outstanding Roman architect of his generation, who was in part responsible for the classicizing direction taken by Late Baroque Roman architecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlo Fontana"
Cervo is an ancient town and comune of the Italian Riviera in the province of Imperia, 1,200 inhabitants. One of its attractions is a fine baroque church overlooking the sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cervo"
The Château de Cheverny is located at Cheverny, in the département of Loir-et-Cher in the Loire Valley in France. The lands were purchased by Henri Hurault, Comte de Cheverny, and Treasurer for War under King Louis XI. ...more on Wikipedia about "Château de Cheverny" Everybody should like www.shortopedia.com Baroque_architecture
Church of the Intercession at Fili ( Russian: Церковь Покрова в Филях) is a Naryshkin baroque church commissioned by the boyar Lev Naryshkin in his surburban estate which has been part of the metropolitan area of Moscow since 1925. The church was constructed between 1693 and 1694 in the shape of a Greek cross, with short, rounded annexes. Located near the Bolshaya Filyovskaya street. ...more on Wikipedia about "Church of the Intercession at Fili"
The Dresdner Frauenkirche ("Church of Our Lady") is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. Several other churches in Europe, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, also share the name of Frauenkirche. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dresden Frauenkirche"
Earthquake Baroque is a style of architecture found in places, such at the Philippines and Guatemala, which suffered earthquakes during the 17th century and 18th century and where large public buildings, such as churches were rebuilt in a Baroque style. Similar events lead to the Pombaline architecture in Lisbon following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and Sicilian Baroque in Sicily following the earthquake in 1693. ...more on Wikipedia about "Earthquake Baroque"
Les Invalides in Paris, France consists of a complex of buildings in the 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to France's military history, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. It is also the burial site for some of France's war heroes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Les Invalides"
The Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie or knight academy was a school for the schlesischen aristocracy established in the seventeenth Century. It existed until 1945 and then became general High School. ...more on Wikipedia about "Liegnitz Ritter-Akademie"
The following is a list of examples of typical Baroque architecture. See also Baroque architecture. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of examples of typical Baroque architecture"
Ludwigsburg Palace is Germany's largest baroque palace and features an enormous baroque garden. It is located in the city of Ludwigsburg (10 km north of Stuttgart's city center). The Palace was at times one of the most magnificent courts in Europe (according i.a. to G. Casanova). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ludwigsburg Palace"
Erecting religious monuments in the form of a column surmounted by a figure or a Christian symbol was a gesture of public faith that flourished in the Catholic countries of Europe especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thus they became one of the most visible features of Baroque architecture. Marian columns were built in honour of the Virgin Mary, often in thanksgiving for ending a plague or for some other help. The purpose of the Holy Trinity columns was usually simply to celebrate the church and the faith. However, the plague motif could sometimes play its role in their erection as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marian and Holy Trinity columns"
Melk Abbey or Stift Melk is an historic Austrian Benedictine abbey, and one of the world's most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in the federal state of Lower Austria, adjoining the Wachau valley. It has the rare distinction of surviving as an active Benedictine monastery continuously since its foundation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Melk Abbey"
Menshikov tower (Меншикова башня) is the name given by Muscovites to the church of St. Gabriel in the White City of Moscow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Menshikov Tower"
Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular style of architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Naryshkin Baroque"
The Château de Versailles —or simply Versailles— is a royal château, outside the gates of which the village of Versailles, France, has grown to become a full-fledged city. From 1682, when King Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789, the court of Versailles was the center of power under the Ancien Régime. Those who are not French tend to call it the "Palace". ...more on Wikipedia about "Palace of Versailles"
Peterhof, ( Russian: Петергоф, Petergof, originally Piterhof, Dutch: "Peter's Court") is a series of palaces and gardens, laid out on the orders of Tsar Peter the Great, and sometimes called the "Russian Versailles". It is located about 20 km west and 6 km south of St Petersburg, overlooking the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The same name refers to the adjacent town of 82,000 people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peterhof"
Petrine Baroque is a name applied by art historians to a style of baroque architecture and decoration favoured by Peter the Great and employed to design buildings in the newly-founded Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, under this monarch and his immediate successors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Petrine Baroque"
San Bernardo alle Terme is a church in Rome. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Bernardo alle Terme"
San Giuseppe dei Teatini is a church in the Sicilian city of Palermo. It is annexed to the Westernmost of the Quattro Canti, and is one of the most outstanding example of the Sicilian Baroque in Palermo. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Giuseppe dei Teatini"
The Solomonic column is characterized by a spiraling twisting shaft. It may have a Roman Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian capital, or a fanciful variant. The origins of "Solomonic" columns spring from biblical descriptions of the two columns, " Jachin" and " Boaz", which famously flanked the entrance to the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. ...more on Wikipedia about "Solomonic column"
St Paul's Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century, and is generally reckoned to be London's fourth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral. ...more on Wikipedia about "St Paul's Cathedral" http://www.shortopedia.com, just the best. shortopedia
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