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Baroque Architecture
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The dramatic, theatrical development of the classical language in seventeenth century Rome and beyond: curved facades, oval plans, sculptural ornament, and light staged for emotional effect, in the service of the Counter-Reformation church and the absolute monarchies. Bernini and Borromini defined it in Rome; Versailles carried it to the scale of a state.
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PeriodCirca; the style is conventionally dated from about 1600 in Rome. PeriodMarks the close of the Late Baroque phase, after which Rococo and then Neoclassicism took over as the dominant idiom. Origin Region Cross-Tradition Connections
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Maderno's nave and facade and Bernini's piazza are defining works of the Roman Baroque.
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