The Baroque movement in Italy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Kremer, 2024)
Defining characteristics include: oblique angles, ovals, curving facades, Giant order, synthesis of architecture and sculpture, and illusion.
Leading Examples
- Guarino Guarini, S. Lorenzo, Turin, 1666-80
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Rome, 1658-70
- Pietro da Cortona, Sta. Maria della Pace, Rome, 1656-67
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, baldacchino, St. Peter’s Rome, 1623-34
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Sta. Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1647-52
- Andrea Pozzo, nave frescoes, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Campus Martius, Rome, from 1685