Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...
In Britain, the Gothic style was revived in the 18th Century, predominantly for churches and university buildings. Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation ...
Polish architecture did not differ significantly from that created in Western Europe. The Golden Age is generally considered the time of the Jagiellonian dynasty, which coincided with the heyday of ...
Sir Robert Smirke was an important neoclassical architect, designing buildings inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, and rejecting the frills of rococo and baroque architecture. He designed The ...
Choice "A specialist in Baroque architecture, Hopkins...focuses on the monumental church commissioned by the government of Venice in 1631 after an epidemic of the plague and designed by Baldassare ...
The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid examines the transformation of Madrid from a secondary market town to the capital of the worldwide, Spanish Habsburg empire. Focusing on the planning ...