Strictly speaking, Baroque architecture refers to an opulent architectural style born in Italy in the late 16th century. “It’s a very broad term used for European architecture of the 17th and ...

Widely regarded as one of the most important architectural achievements of the Baroque era, the Church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome stands out for its bold juxtaposition of geometric shapes ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

Denis De Lucca: Tomaso Maria Napoli: A Dominican friar’s contribution to Military Architecture in the Baroque Age. International Institute for Baroque Studies, 2015. 254 pp. When one thinks of ...

The Baroque movement took place from the beginning of the 16th century until around 1740. Although it is a cultural movement, influencing architecture, music, art, and even garden design, it ...

Postmodernists were not the first to use architecture as a striking stage design and to toy with its viewer using optical illusions, twisted perspectives and buildings whose forms don’t quite follow ...

Architecture is in the spotlight on one-and-a-half hour guided walks of the centre. From €19 (£16). The must-see: The copper-domed Salzburg Cathedral is baroque in overdrive.