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Baroque Revival architecture

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|caption = Top: Palais Garnier (Paris), 1860–1875, by Charles Garnier; Second: Quadriga on the Grand Palais (Paris), 1898–1901, by Georges Récipon; Bottom: Belfast City Hall, 1898–1906, by Sir Brumwell Thomas.

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The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.{{cite web|url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/b/baroque.html#Baroque9 |title=Baroque/Baroque Revival |publisher=Buffaloah.com |access-date=2012-08-15}} The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptures which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not of the original Baroque period. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of the École 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{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Notable examples

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"."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, [http://www.radio.cz/en/article/42866 online at The international service of Czech Radio]

Baroque Revival architects

Gallery

File:Istanbul_asv2020-02_img60_Ortaköy_Mosque.jpg|Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, 1854–1856

File:Dresden - Semperoper - 2013.jpg|Semperoper in Dresden, Germany, 1878

File:AMSTERDAM HOLLAND APRIL 2013 (8711705082).jpg|Basilica of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1887

File:Wien - Burgtheater, Hauptfassade.JPG|Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, 1888

File:Sagerska palatset 2011.JPG|Sager House in Stockholm, Sweden, 1893

File:Näsilinna, Museo Milavida.jpg|Milavida Palace in Tampere, Finland, 1898

File:Port of Liverpool building - 2012-05-27 (5).JPG|Port of Liverpool Building, Liverpool, England, 1903–1907

File:AfricaMuseum - 2023-02-09 - 03.jpg|Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, 1905–1909

File:Budapest Széchenyi Baths R02.jpg|Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary, 1913

File:Facciata Incoro.JPG|Madre del Buon Consiglio in Naples, Italy, 1920–1960

File:2017 Lima - Palacio de Gobierno del Perú.jpg|Government Palace in Lima, Peru, 1938

See also

References

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Further reading

  • James Stevens Curl; "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Oxford University Press. 2000. – [http://www.encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com] . accessed 3 Jan. 2010.

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