1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 176
... baroque 17th - 18th century Royal and papal splendours Toward the close of the 16th century a style came into being that expressed a new concept of nature and the world , of the relationships among people , and of the function of art ...
... baroque 17th - 18th century Royal and papal splendours Toward the close of the 16th century a style came into being that expressed a new concept of nature and the world , of the relationships among people , and of the function of art ...
Page 190
... baroque architecture . The rejection of the baroque , a rejection that was more cultural than formal , is clear in the aban- donment of the project that Louis XIV commissioned from Bernini in 1665 for the completion of the Louvre ...
... baroque architecture . The rejection of the baroque , a rejection that was more cultural than formal , is clear in the aban- donment of the project that Louis XIV commissioned from Bernini in 1665 for the completion of the Louvre ...
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... buildings were made that testify to the beginning of baroque architecture in Spain . At Granada in the 18th century the canons of classical architecture began taking on decorative elements that were freely interpreted thanks to the use ...
... buildings were made that testify to the beginning of baroque architecture in Spain . At Granada in the 18th century the canons of classical architecture began taking on decorative elements that were freely interpreted thanks to the use ...
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