0000000000The emergence of the Baroque period is associated with the fading of the Renaissance: abandoning the ideas of classical harmony and strict world order, the creators focused on the struggle of the mind and feelings. Henceforth their focus was on the forces of the elements, expression, and mysticism

The Renaissance is fading

The Baroque era is being revived

0000000000The history of the name is associated with the Portuguese sailors, who used the word barocco for the defective pearls of irregular shape. The Italians willingly adopted the term, combining with it the pretentious and bizarre manifestations of the new cultural current

The emergence of the Baroque period is associated with the fading of the Renaissance: abandoning the ideas of classical harmony and strict world order, the creators focused on the struggle of the mind and feelings. Henceforth their focus was on the forces of the elements, expression, and mysticism

The history of the name is associated with the Portuguese sailors, who used the word barocco for the defective pearls of irregular shape. The Italians willingly adopted the term, combining with it the pretentious and bizarre manifestations of the new cultural current

Detail of the Duomo in Milan

The door of a French mansion

Trevi Fountain

The flowering of the style coincided with the strengthening of absolute monarchies, the development of the colonies, the strengthening of Catholicism. It is logical that in urban planning it manifested itself in the scale
and monumentality

In each country, the new architectural style was influenced by political, social
and cultural conditions. In this case we can speak of national types of baroque

Richly wrought platbands are necessarily equipped with a keystone.
Windows are made in the form of ovals, hemispheres, rectangular openings

Instead of columns to support the ceiling beams, balustrades
and roof vaults, statues of caryatids and atlantes are installed

The pose and facial expressions of mythological and biblical figures convey the emotional tension and drama of the plot, which corresponds to the concept of the complex structure of the world and human passions

One of the features of Baroque architecture is the active use in the facade design of masks in the form of a human face or the muzzle of an animal, placed in full-face

Every detail is sumptuously framed.
In the bundle of historically close styles of Baroque, Rococo, and Classicism, the former stands out significantly for its love of excessive decoration

calm

awesome

comic

Baroque facades

Mascarons on the facades

Sculptural compositions

Baroque ornaments

Architects play with light, using multi-layered structures, optical illusions, false perspective. They create illusionary space: they draw backdrops with architectural elements, put mirrors

The aristocracy uses more and more luxury.
Furniture is intended almost exclusively
for interior decoration

Mirrors are decorated with sculptures and stucco with floral pattern

Chairs, sofas
and armchairs are upholstered in expensive, richly colored fabric

The furniture is richly decorated with curlicues, carvings and semi-precious stones, ivory, silver, gilding and mother-of-pearl

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