Style
Baroque
Movement and theatre: curving fronts, broken pediments, giant scrolls, domes, gilding and painted ceilings that seem to open to the sky.
- When
- c. 1600 to 1750
- Where
- Europe and Latin America
- Tell it apart
- Renaissance is calmer and flatter; Georgian uses Baroque details on a small, plain brick or wood box.
The tells
- A front that curves in and out
- Broken pediments and big scrolls (volutes)
- Paired columns and pilasters stacked in storeys
- Gilding, sculpture and painted illusion inside
- Domes and twin front towers