Baroque: breaking with tradition
9 important questions on Baroque: breaking with tradition
On page 202 of your text book, in reference to the origins of the Baroque style, Patrick Nuttgens states: ‘This exuberant architecture, staring in _________ , was at first confined within a territory which included Italy and Spain, Austria, Hungary and Catholic Germany.’
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On page 204 and 205 of your text book Patrick Nuttgens cites three “breakaway features” of the Baroque. The first feature is cited in the following excerpt:
‘Baroque architects deserted symmetry and equilibrium to experiment with new and vigorous ___________.’
On page 204 and 205 of your text book Patrick Nuttgens cites three “breakaway features” of the Baroque. The second feature is cited in the following excerpt:
‘The second was that it deserted the static form of the square and of the circle for shapes that swirl and move. S-curves, undulating facades and plans based on __________.’
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On page 204 and 205 of your text book Patrick Nuttgens cites three “breakaway features” of the Baroque. The third feature is cited in the following excerpt:
‘The third beak away feature of the Baroque was an extreme form of __________.’
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on __________.’
In reference to the third break away feature of the Baroque, Patrick Nuttgens cites on page 205 that theatricality ‘involved the creating of illusion. The Baroque is fertile with examples of ______________________.’
Question 6
On page 207 of your text book Patrick Nuttgens states: ‘The two founding figures of the Baroque were ______________________.’
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On page 207 of your text book Patrick Nuttgens states: ‘Bernini opened the Baroque with a fanfare of trumpets from where Michelangelo had left off, first by building inside St peter’s an ornate canopy (called a Baldachin) over the tomb of St Peter directly under the dome, secondly by creating an illusion of a buet of heavenly glory round the ancient wooden throne reputed to be St Peter’s, and finally by erecting the double colonnade which clasps the vast __________ before the cathedral.’
Although Patrick Nuttgens states on page 207 of your text book that it was Bernini who “opened the Baroque”, he also states on the same page that “They (Bernini and Borromini) set the style but their genius was too incendiary for general export, and it was the rather milder forms of their innovations propagated by _______________ that spread throughout Europe…Architects came to Rome to study under _______________”
Patrick Nuttgens refers to this plan on page 208 of your text book stating: “_______________, also designed by Neumann, is perhaps the most complex of all Baroque churches.”
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