Baroque Architecture

A passion for Mexican architecture drives James Early's examination of the most notable post-Columbian architecture constructed on the American continent prior to the emergence north of the border of Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In colorful and lucid prose Early introduces his subject with an overview of the city of Mexico and surrounding areas at the time of the first Spanish contact, discussing two great programs of building that followed and the patterns of living associated with them. The text is roughly chronological, with emphasis on the Baroque period and concluding with the Neo-Classical architecture of the nineteenth century. Organized into chapters alternating between civic and sacred architecture, Early looks at the grandeur of religious edifices of New Spain -- from the Gothic churches of the friars and the Renaissance cathedrals of the cities to the Baroque sacred chapels and Neo-Classical parish churches -- and describes the great haciendas and magnificent city houses of some of the enormously wealthy families such as the Condes del Valle de Orizaba. He places Mexico's architectural developments in a cultural context, discussing, for example, convent life for nuns and the cults of the saints and the Virgin. In addition, Early includes a chapter on folk architecture describing the energy and imaginative vitality of Mexican viceregal ornamentation. Early provides a lively analysis of such elaborately decorated churches as the Rosario Chapel in Puebla and the Jesuit buildings at Tepotzotlan. His enthusiasm for aesthetic elements such as interlacing strapwork and rippling pediments is contagious. Early is eloquent in his descriptionsof the splendid churches of eighteenth-century Mexico that were grounded on the wealth of its silvermines, paying particular attention to the spectacular Church of Santa Prisca in Taxco and its remarkable patron. Jose de la Borda.

Classical architecture is a visual "language" and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically contradict them. Sir Christopher Wren described them as the "Latin" of architecture and the analogy is almost exact. There is the difference, however, that whereas the learning of Latin is a slow and difficult business, the language of classical architecture is relatively simple. It is still, to a great extent, the mode of expression of our urban surroundings, since classical architecture was the common language of the western world till comparatively recent times. Anybody to whom architecture makes a strong appeal has probably already discovered something of its grammar for himself.in this book, the author's purpose is to set out as simply and vividly as possible the exact grammatical workings of this architectural language. He is less concerned with its development in Greece and Rome than with its expansion and use in the centuries since the Renaissance. He explains the vigorous discipline of "the orders" and the scope of "rustication"; the dramatic deviations of the Baroque and, in the last chapter, the relationship between the classical tradition and the "modern" architecture of today. The book is intended for anybody who cares for architecture but more specifically for students beginning a course in the history of architecture, to whom a guide to the classical rules will be an essential companion.

Baroque architecture - Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. New architectural concerns for color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity characterize the Baroque.

Earthquake Baroque - Earthquake Baroque is a style of architecture found in places, such at the Philippines and Guatemala, which suffered earthquakes during the 17th century and 18th century and where large public buildings, such as churches were rebuilt in a Baroque style. Similar events lead to the Pombaline architecture in Lisbon following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and Sicilian Baroque in Sicily following the earthquake in 1693.

Neo-baroque - Neo-baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which reference some aspect of baroque style, but are not from the baroque period proper. This can be in music, architecture, painting or decoration, but is most frequently used to refer to music or architecture.

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