Italian Baroque Architecture

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Italian Baroque Architecture. Bernini & Boromini. Baroque Architecture. Churches designed to show power of Catholic Church Walls curved and bulged Heavily decorated with shapes and/or color. The Rivalry of Bernini and Boromini. Bernini: Baldacchino. Almost 100 feet high - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Italian Baroque ArchitectureBernini & Boromini

Baroque Architecture Churches designed to show power of

Catholic Church Walls curved and bulged Heavily decorated with shapes

and/or color

The Rivalry of Bernini and Boromini

Bernini: Baldacchino

Almost 100 feet high

Baldacchino erected to mark St. Peter’s tomb and the high altar

Cornaro ChapelSanta Maria della Vittoria

Bernini’s Legacy

Bernini's The Throne of St. Peter

Baroque Ceiling Paintings

Architecture is painted in on a flat ceiling

Andrea PozzoApotheosis of Saint Ignatius

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