Baroque Revival architecture

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 century.[1] 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, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.

Palace of Justice in Munich (Germany)
Palais Garnier in Paris (France)
The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest (Hungary)
Belfast City Hall, an example of Edwardian Baroque architecture or "Wrenaissance", in Northern Ireland

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".[2]

Baroque Revival architects
  • Port of Liverpool (England), 1903–07, by Sir Arnold Thornely, F.B. Hobbs, Briggs and Wolstenholme
  • Apartment house in Berlin (Germany), 1889-1892, by Koebe & Weissmüller
  • Wenckheim Palace from Budapest (Hungary), 1886–1889, by Arthur Meinig
  • Sager House in Stockholm (Sweden), 1893, by Jean René Pierre Litoux
  • City-house with balconets at every window, in Bucharest (Romania)
  • Building in Sibiu (Transylvania, Romania), 1892
  • Window of a small and very beautiful middle-class family city-house in Bucharest, nearby Piața Romană
  • Entrance of the house from the previous picture, photoed above the gate
  • Wooden door with pediments of a 1896 house from Strasbourg (France). Even if it is Baroque Revival, it has many Neoclassical ornaments
  • Wooden door with a round window above it, in Strasbourg
  • Entrances of the Direction régionale des Impôts de Strasbourg, each of the doors having a mascaron
  • Double door in the Direction régionale des Impôts de Strasbourg

See also

References
  1. "Baroque/Baroque Revival". Buffaloah.com. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  2. "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.
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