{Baroque Architecture [continued (8)]}[10th May 1991]

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‘18^th Century Developments

‘The relative similarity of approach among architects in the 17th century, did not exist in the 18th century. Baroque spatial organizational concepts underwent profound alterations. Simultaneously, there was the birth of the Rococo, a new approach in the decorative arts, which, in its search for decorative freedom, lightness, & airiness, paralleled, to a degree, the spatial experiments in architecture. The decorative inventions and*** architectural evolutions, which provided designers with a new vocabulary, were, in a sense, complementary.

In the first half of the 18th century, there were at least three **** major parallel currents of architectural thought, each flourishing in different regions:

late Baroque (predominantly Italy & parts of France & central Europe);

Rococo (France, south-central Europe, & northern Italy); and

neo-Palladian classical (England, Holland, & north-central Europe).

No region was unaware of the other currents.

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**{This is duplicated in [photo-copied] print on p307 [in the ms, not repeated in the ts]}

[& above the photocopied print in the ms is included an illustration from the same source entitled: Figure 72: St. Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, by Cario Maderno, 1607’ (showing the interior looking towards the altar), which is not included in the ts]

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(cf [last previous ts journal entry] 305)

#– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:] 1015(-1016)

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