English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great...
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Italian Baroque architecture refers to Baroque architecture in Italy. The Baroque architecture period began in Italy during the late-16th century. It originated...
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Edwardian architecture usually refers to a Neo-Baroque architectural style that was popular for public buildings in the British Empire during the Edwardian...
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The Baroque (UK: /bəˈrɒk/ bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry...
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The Polish Baroque lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. As with Baroque style elsewhere in Europe, Poland's Baroque emphasized the richness...
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from European, such as English classicism, baroque, and rococo. In Western Europe, the Baroque style, particularly in architecture, was developed by reinterpreting...
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dominated by the more flamboyant English Baroque. Palladianism returned to fashion after a reaction against the Baroque in the early 18th century, fuelled...
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Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and...
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The Queen Anne style of British architecture refers to either the English Baroque architecture of the time of Queen Anne (who reigned from 1702 to 1714)...
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Egyptian Revival architecture 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s Elizabethan architecture (1533–1603) Empire 1804–1814, 1870 revival English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)...
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Florham (category English Baroque architecture)
The architects' instructions were to build "a house on the order of an English country gentleman ... a thoroughly comfortable house, without the stiffness...
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Cathedral, the only English cathedral in any permutation of the Classical tradition. The later 17th century saw Baroque architecture – a version of Classicism...
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Baroque architectural forms and Ukrainian national Baroque architectural traditions. Ukrainian Baroque is distinct from the Western European Baroque in...
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Appuldurcombe House (category English Baroque architecture)
Appledorecombe or Appledore Combe) is the shell of a large 18th-century English Baroque country house of the Worsley family. The house is situated near to...
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Wentworth Woodhouse (category English Baroque architecture)
Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust and is undergoing restoration. The English Baroque, brick-built, western range of Wentworth Woodhouse was begun in 1725...
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Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Baroque architecture) Edwardian Baroque architecture Stalinist baroque English Baroque California Churrigueresque...
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Castle Howard (category English Baroque architecture)
gentleman-dilettante's first foray into architecture, but he was assisted by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Vanbrugh's design evolved into a Baroque structure with two symmetrical...
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Aynhoe Park (category English Baroque architecture)
the Jacobean house. Archer, who had visited Italy, added unusual late-Baroque detailing, such as the concave surrounds to the central doorways of the...
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Blenheim Palace (category English Baroque architecture)
Vanbrugh. Designed in the rare, and short-lived, English Baroque style, the palace receives architectural appreciation as divided today as it was in the...
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Chicheley Hall (category English Baroque architecture)
Chester, the main architect was Francis Smith of Warwick and the architectural style is Baroque. Later owners included David Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, and the...
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List of historic buildings of the United Kingdom (category British architectural history)
Kingdom Architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture Architecture of the United Kingdom Prehistoric Britain Roman Britain Timeline of architectural styles List...
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Ephemeral architecture had a special relevance in the Spanish Baroque, as it fulfilled diverse aesthetic, political, religious and social functions. On...
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Chatsworth House (category English Baroque architecture)
Chatsworth was a key building in the development of English Baroque architecture. According to the architectural historian Sir John Summerson, "It inaugurates...
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Old Royal Naval College (category English Baroque architecture)
The Old Royal Naval College are buildings that serve as the architectural centrepiece of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site in Greenwich, London...
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Chettle House (category English Baroque architecture)
early 18th century, and even nationally outstanding as a specimen of English Baroque". In 1946, the property was inherited by Esther Bourke who eventually...
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Baroque music (UK: /bəˈrɒk/ or US: /bəˈroʊk/) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The...
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Grimsthorpe Castle (category English Baroque architecture)
16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, employed Sir John Vanbrugh to design a Baroque front to the house to celebrate his ennoblement as the first Duke of Ancaster...
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Rosewell (plantation) (category English Baroque architecture)
elaborate homes in the American colonies. In Mansions of Virginia, architectural historian Thomas Tileston Waterman describes the plantation house as...
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Radcliffe Camera (category English Baroque architecture)
building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is...
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Kensington Palace (category English Baroque architecture)
portal London portal Architecture portal History portal Monarchy portal Kensington Gardens Kensington Palace Gardens List of Baroque residences List of...
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