History of Architecture

Baroque & Rococo

Architecture

Prepared By :Tesfu G.
Trevi Fountain in Rome
Baroque & Rococo

The full Baroque aesthetic

emerged during the Early
Baroque, and High Baroque;
both periods were led by Italy.
The Baroque age
concluded with the French-
born Rococo style (ca. 1725-
1800), in which the violence
and drama of Baroque was
quieted to a gentle, playful
dynamism.
The Late Baroque and
Rococo periods were led by
France
 The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used
exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to
produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in
sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance,
theatre, and music.
The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread
to most of Europe.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was
encouraged by the Catholic Church, to response to the
Protestant Reformation, that Baroque architecture and art
as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumph,
power and control.
 Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque
era, begun in late 16th- century Italy, that took the
Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used
it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion.
It was characterized by new explorations of form, light
and shadow, and dramatic intensity.
The Baroque was, initially at least, directly linked to the
Counter-Reformation, a movement within the Catholic
Church to reform itself in response to the Protestant
Reformation.
Baroque architecture and its embellishments were on
the one hand more accessible to the emotions and on
the other hand, a visible statement of the wealth and
power of the Church.
Francesco Borromini and Gianlorenzo
Bernini (bitter rivals) worked on the church.

The most impressive display of

Church of SantAgnese in
Agone, in Piazza Navona,
rebuilt in the Baroque style.
Churrigueresque (Spanish
Baroque style) spatial
Belfry in Mons, Belgium decoration found in the west
designed by architect faade of the Cathedral of
Louis Ledoux Santiago de Compostela.
Distinctive features of Baroque architecture

In churches, broader naves and sometimes given oval

forms.
Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete architectural
elements.
Dramatic use of light; either strong light-and-shade
contrasts, or uniform lighting by means of several
windows.
Opulent use of color and ornaments (putti or figures
made of wood (often gilded), plaster or stucco, marble or
faux finishing).
Large-scale ceiling frescoes.
Distinctive features of Baroque architecture

An external faade often characterized by a dramatic

central projection.
The interior is a shell for painting, sculpture and stucco
Illusory effects like an art technique involving extremely
realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that
the depicted objects appear in three dimensions and the
blending of painting and architecture.
Pear-shaped domes in the Bavarian, Czech, Polish and
Ukrainian Baroque
.Marian and Holy Trinity columns erected in Catholic
countries, often in thanksgiving for ending a plague
Weltenburg Abbey, Bavaria,
Germany

Holy Trinity Column in

Olomouc, Czech Republic
Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus at the "Argentina.Its
facade is "the first truly baroque faade", introducing the
baroque style into architecture.
The church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, an important example of Roman Baroque
architecture, was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with Giovanni de'Rossi.
Unlike San Carlo, SantAndrea is set back from the street and the space outside the
church is enclosed by low curved quadrant walls.
An oval cylinder encases the dome, and large volutes transfer the lateral thrust. The
main faade to the street has a pedimented frame at the center of which a
semicircular porch with two Ionic columns marks the main entrance.
The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by
Italian architect Nicola Salvi. it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of
the most famous fountains in the world.
Rococo Architecture
 Rococo

Rococo style, in interior

design, the decorative
arts, painting,
architecture, and
sculpture that
originated in Paris in the
early 18th century
It was soon adopted
throughout France and
later in other countries,
principally Germany
and Austria.
It is characterized by
lightness, elegance, the word Rococo is derived from the
and an exuberant use French word rocaille, which
of curving, natural forms denoted the shell-covered rock
in ornamentation.
 At the outset the Rococo style
represented a reaction against
the ponderous design of Louis
XIVs Palace of Versailles and
the official Baroque art of his
reign.
Several interior designers,
painters developed a lighter
and more intimate style of
decoration for the new
residences of nobles in Paris.
In the Rococo style, walls,
ceilings, and moldings were
decorated with delicate
interlacings of curves and
counter-curves based on the
fundamental shapes of the C
and the S, as well as with
shell forms and other natural
shapes.