Baroque Architecture

Explore baroque architecture's origins in Rome, its spread across Europe and the Americas, and its dramatic features such as heavy ornamentation, theatrical lighting, and centralized facades under Counter-Reformation patronage.

See how Jesuit baroque architecture fuses dramatic facades and ceiling frescoes with a large hall and no side aisles, guiding attention to the apse and blending painting with architecture.

Explore a baroque church near the forum of Trajan in Rome, dedicated to prisoners, and analyze its function, form, and beauty through the barrel vault and gold and green interiors.

Baroque architecture lecture examines a church with increased central projection, blue ceilings in gold leaf, and a plan of short transepts and shallow chapels, highlighting Pietro’s Trinity in the dome.

Explore the church of st. susanna in rome and its baroque facade with a strong central projection, divided upper and lower rectangles, and heavy ornamentation.

Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in Santa Maria is lit dramatically, with gilded plaster and red marble, reflecting Baroque temple references to Greek and Roman architecture.

Discover how the late baroque church of Santander presents a sculpture-like facade and interior, with a dominant central projection, curved forms, and the building conceived as an assemblage of sculpture.

Explore a late Baroque Rome building with a curved arcade and serpentine tablet tree motif, revealing Roman flavor, Michelangelo-inspired design, and an oval ceiling formed by two interlaced ovals.

Explore a Roman Baroque church exemplifying a fully curved facade, a unique interior dome, and a geometry-driven ceiling with concave and convex lines created from triangular forms.

Explore residential baroque by examining the Luxembourg palace in Paris, its grand interiors, decorative ceilings and furniture, and the palace garden that expresses wealth, power, and french baroque style.

French baroque architecture under Louis XIII–XV shaped 18th-century secular design worldwide. Fouquet's estate, by Le Vau and Le Nôtre, features geometric gardens and lavish interiors.

Trace the Louvre's transformation from royal residence to public museum after 1793 revolution, housing unique works like the Mona Lisa. Explore baroque interiors, skylights, parquet floors, and the pyramid entrance.

Baroque architecture took root in America, with Asheville's Biltmore estate showcasing Americanized French forms, Latin America influences, deer and musk ox heads, and grand interiors reflecting wealth and status.