Baroque

The dominant European style of the 17th Century and early 18th Century, typically bold and exuberant, using Renaissance forms with a new freedom.

Examples

• Early Baroque: facade for St Peter's by Carlo Moderno
• High Baroque: work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini in Italy
• Late Baroque: work by Balthasar Neumann and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach