Baroque Revival architecture
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The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-baroque or Second Empire (in France), was an architectural style of the late 19th century.[1] The term is used to describe architecture which displays important aspects of Baroque style, but is not of the Baroque period proper—i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris, the pre-eminent school of architecture in the second half of the 19th century, and are integral to the Beaux-Arts architecture it engendered both in France and abroad. An ebullient sense of European imperialism encouraged an official architecture to reflect it in Britain and France, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.
Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:
- The Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan
- The Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia
- The Ashton Memorial in Lancaster, England
- The Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- The Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany
- The British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- The Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
- The Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Cluj-Napoca National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- The Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
- The Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
- The Elms Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
- The National Theatre, Oslo in Oslo, Norway
- The Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) in Paris, France
- The Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
- The Semper Oper in Dresden, Germany
- The Sofia University rectorate in Sofia, Bulgaria
- The Church of St. Barbara (Brooklyn, New York)
- The St. John Cantius church in Chicago, United States
- The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)
- The Church of Salta, Argentina
- The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary
- The Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria
- The former royal palace, today the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria
- Wenckheim Palace, Budapest, Hungary
- Park Club, Budapest, Hungary
- The Great Theatre of Havana, Havana, Cuba
- The Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka
- The Altare della Patria in Rome, Italy
- The House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia.
There are also number of post-modern buildings with a style that might be called "Baroque", for example the Dancing House in Prague by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque".[2]
Baroque Revival architects
- Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1917) and Hermann Helmer (1849–1919)
- Arthur Meinig (1853–1904)
- Sir Edwin Lutyens
Gallery
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Károlyi Palace, Budapest (1881-1883) by Fellner & Helmer
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Wenckheim Palace, Budapest (1886-1889) by Arthur Meinig
See also
- Baroque
- List of Baroque architecture
- Second Empire architecture
- Beaux-Arts architecture
- Edwardian Baroque architecture
- Wilhelminism
References
- ^ "Baroque/Baroque Revival". Buffaloah.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ " The Dancing Building, which Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic have described as "new Baroque", has divided opinion [...] ", in "Architect recalls genesis of Dancing Building as coffee table book published", by Ian Willoughby, 11-07-2003, online at The international service of Czech Radio
- James Stevens Curl; "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Oxford University Press. 2000. — Encyclopedia.com . accessed 3 Jan. 2010.