THE BAROQUE AND THE MERCHANT CITY: ROME, TURIN, ANTWERP, AND AMSTERDAM

5 important questions on THE BAROQUE AND THE MERCHANT CITY: ROME, TURIN, ANTWERP, AND AMSTERDAM

What was typical of a Baroque city?

  1. On an urban scale, organization along straight axial connections between important urban elements (primarily buildings of religious significance), with ambitious schemes attempting to provide some form of grand urban uniformity and illusion of movement throughout the city.
  2. On an architectural scale, buildings became characterized by their massive size, spatial tension, and the drama created by light and shade.

What was the goal of catholic church with the use of the baroque style ?

Catholic Church intent in transmitting its values through art and architecture and restore their position after the Reformation (counter-reformation) as well as the ambitious plans of several Papacies to restore Rome to its former glory.

What are typical characteristics of a merchant city?

  • urban development was stimulated by the maritime trading and financial operations.
  • the growth of the city had a semi-circular growth pattern.
  • the extension outwards therefore created the possibility of new canals and there for the insurance of a good connection of the extension with the existing canal system and indirect with the open water.
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What are differences between the baroque city and the merchant city and what was the causing this differences?


The clear divergence between these two types of seventeenth-century urban form and architectural expression had its origins in the fundamentally opposing types of governance and intentions, which accounted for the larger distinctions in both morphology and typology of these cities.

Baroque city -> vertical political hierarchy
The merchant city -> diffuse horizontal governing system

The baroque city:
  1. massiveness, monumentality, and theatricality
  2. Overwhelming and amaze
  3. theatricality and drama
  4. urban fabric animated by singular buildings


The merchant city:
  1. unassuming buildings and coordinated urban interventions.
  2. guided by a utilitarian efficiency
  3. practical elements
  4. defined by its assemblage of ordinary structures

     

What had both the Renaissance city and the Merchant city in common?

The underlying principle of the urban plan was movement.

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