Italian Baroque Architecture
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Italian Baroque Architecture Bernini & Boromini
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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
