Baroque and Rococo

Architecture

By Sultan Murat YILMAZ

Baroque

– often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur.

– The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread to most of Europe

– encouraged by the Catholic Church during Counter Reformation against Protestant Reformation

Two most popular types of Architectural commission

– Palaces – Churches

Features of Baroque

Architecture

Exterior and Interior

Spiral Columns

Exterior Feature Dome

Rounded Arches

Curved lines

Interior Feature Painted ceiling

Painted in real goldHighly

decorated walls

Other features

– Floor Plan

Those typical of Baroque architecture were the ellipse or the oval, or far

more complex schemes derived from complicated geometrical figures.

Early baroque (ca. 1600-25)

Saint Peter’s Basilica,

Vatican City

High Baroque (ca. 1625-75)

The Church of Sant'Andrea al

Quirinale,

designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

By Francesco Borromini

ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE

ROCOCO………………………………….…………………

An artistic style of the 18th century

characterized by fanciful curved

asymmetrical forms and elaborate

ornamentation.

"Late Baroque"

Hermitage Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia

Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia

Wieskirche in

Bavaria

EXAMPLES OF ROCOCO

ARCHITECTURES

FEATURESOF ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE

ELABORATE

CURVES

AND SCROLLS

Architectural style of Rococo

include numerous curves as

well as scrolls that resemble ‘S’

and ‘C’.

ROCAILLE

Ornaments shaped

like shells and

plants.

ACANTHUS

LEAF

one of the basic motifs ofRococo design.

ASYMMETRY

LIGHT, PASTEL

COLORS

Church of Il Gesù

(Rome, 1584)

BRIEF HISTORY

Hospicio de San

Fernando (Madrid, 1722)

Beginning of the Baroque and the end of

the Rococo.

SHIFT FROM THE CLASSICAL

TO THE EXPRESSIONISTIC

VS

BAROQUE ROCOCO

Thank you.

SULTAN MURAT YILMAZ

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