Italian Style Architecture

Rococo Decorative Italian Style

Baroque church of São Francisco de Assis in Sã...

Image via Wikipedia Rococo Is Not Italian Architecture – It is a Decorative Style. After the first decades of the eighteenth century architecture lost its baroque strength and energy, and the sober tendency overpowered every architectural idea. In the domain of decoration alone there remained a fantastic though feebly-delicate set of ornamental forms, which, …

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Building The Louvre

The Cour Carrée of the

Image via Wikipedia The building of the Louvre, as in earlier times that of the cathedrals, was not the work of a generation. From 1624, Lemercier had continued the construction of the court and practically retained the style of the older parts; Leveau about 1660 worked upon the structure, also preserving the style of …

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Classic Revival Italian Architecture

A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book...

Image via Wikipedia Palladio and his successors by the hollow and imposing pomp which they introduced rendered possible a new style. This new style was no longer Italian, but became universal, just as the general culture had become universal and was no longer Italian. Architecture Of Italy Italy had indeed remained the center of this [...]

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Italian Renaisance Baroque Style Architects

Palazzo Reale - Torino - 28.01.2007

Baroque Style Italian Renaissance,  a predominant factor in the details and in some peculiarities of the plan. In the second half of the sixteenth century France followed Italy for the most part—at least, in the adoption of the palatial, symmetrical, regularly-planned edifice,  chiefly in great palaces for the construction of which masters were imported from [...]

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The Italian Style Archictecture

The Italian style, which embraces the Florentine. modern Roman and Venetian schools is investigated below: The Florentine style (a variety of the Italian style), is characterized by the absence  of  columns on the outside and by the massive cornices with which the buildings are crowned. This style has rather a heavy appearance. The Pandolfini Palace,  [...]

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