Baroque And Rococo - Architecture And Decoration Today

It tracks the style's diffusion into Northern Italy (Guarini and Juvarra), Naples, and Central Europe, where the Baroque saw a second great flowering in the 18th century.

Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration Anthony Blunt Baroque and Rococo - Architecture and Decoration

The book is structured to provide both a thematic and geographical overview of these artistic movements: It tracks the style's diffusion into Northern Italy

Baroque is noted for its massive scale and heavy, emotional drama, whereas Rococo focuses on intimacy, elegance, and slender lines. and Central Europe

Baroque was primarily the architecture of the Church and state (e.g., Karlskirche in Vienna), while Rococo found its home in the private salons and manor homes of the aristocracy.

Blunt and his contributors define the transition from Baroque to Rococo through several key shifts: