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12 unusual facts about baroque architecture


Caricature Museum, Mexico City

The Caricature Museum (Museo de la Caricatura in Spanish) is located in an 18th-century Baroque building in the historic center of Mexico City.

Daraga, Albay

The name Daraga came from a type of tree that grew in abundance on the hill where a Catholic church with Baroque architecture now stands.

José Luis Cuevas Museum

This church is considered to be a mix of styles between Mexican Baroque and Neo-classic.

Jujol Centre – Can Negre

Inside the building, it is the spiral staircase leading up the first floor that stands out, topped with an octagonal dome, and a small Baroque-style chapel with an elliptical floor plan.

Krzeczyn Mały

The former German Junker (landed nobility) of the Harrach family left a Baroque palace that is now property of Count Ghislain de Nicolay.

Louis Remy de la Fosse

Louis Remy de la Fosse (1659–1726) was a French architect during the Baroque period.

Palace of the Counts of Redondo

The Baroque palace is in a rectangular conformation and composed of four wings around a courtyard square plan.

Palazzo Annoni

Palazzo Annoni (also known as Palazzo Annoni-Cicogna Mozzoni) is a 17th-century Baroque building in Milan, Italy.

Römermuseum Schwarzenacker

The villa has a landscaped garden in the Baroque style, which was created following the excavation of the vicus.

Salzgitter-Ringelheim

The Baroque church of St. Abdon und Sennen built in 1694 is known for its precious organ and the crucifix from the workshop of Prince-bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.

Skrzeszew, Sokołów County

The Baroque-Neoclassical church from 1st half of 18th century, was damaged in 1915 and restored in 1918.

Zabór

It is known for the Baroque Zabór Castle built in 1677, formerly held by the noble house of Schoenaich-Carolath.


Acsa

The baroque Prónay castle, which was built around 1775 by Giovanni Battista Carlone (it is in Acsaújlak, but is not open to visitors)

Brody, Żary County

From 1740 it was a possession of the Saxon statesman Heinrich von Brühl, who had an extended Baroque palace built, where he received Elector Frederick Augustus II of Wettin and kept his famous Meissen Schwanenservice tableware of more than 2.000 pieces designed by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Bruchsal station

The original station of the baroque town of Bruchsal opened on 10 April 1843 as part of the Karlsruhe–Heidelberg section of the old Baden main line, which eventually connected Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel and was initially built with 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge.

Cistercian architecture

The largest Cistercian complex, the Abbatia Lubensis (Lubiąż, Poland), is a masterpiece of baroque architecture and the second largest Christian architectural complex in the world.

History of Porto

Between 1732 and 1763, Italian architect Nicolau Nasoni designed a baroque church with a tower that would become its icon: the Torre dos Clérigos (English: Clerics Tower).

Johann Adam Breunig

Johann Adam Breunig (1660 in Mainz – 1727) was a German Baroque architect.

Johann Ernst von Thun

The archbishop is best remembered as patron of the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a leader of Austrian Baroque church architecture.

Mostec

It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the plague.

Naryshkin Baroque

Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular style of Baroque architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow from the turn of the 17th into the early 18th centuries.

Nový Dvůr Monastery

The monastery originated from a dilapidated Baroque farm (Nový Dvůr means literally "the New Yard"), that was partially reconstructed and mostly replaced by a modern construction according to a project of British architect John Pawson.

Putyvl

The foundations of its three-domed cathedral, dedicated to the Nativity of the Theotokos, belong to the 1590s, but the main part of the church is one of the earliest Baroque structures in the region, described in its entirety by Paul of Aleppo in 1654.

Rödelhausen

Catholic branch church, Lenzgraben 1 – Baroque aisleless church, marked 1747; cast-iron grave cross, Rheinböllen Ironworks, marked 1899; whole complex of buildings with graveyard

Saviour Church on Sennaya Square

The Assumption Church on Sennaya Square in St. Petersburg was a Late Baroque penticupolar church underwritten by Orthodox merchants trading at the nearby Sennaya Square market.

Schloss Fußberg

It is a baroque building that served as a summer residence for the Andechs Abbey and a resting place on the route to Munich.

Sluštice

Baroque church of St. James the Greater from the 18th century (1746-1749), original Gothic from the 13th century was badly damaged by a fire in 1716.

Sølvgade

The most prominent building in the street is Sølvgade Barracks, a large Baroque complex completed in 1771 to a design by the French architect Nicolas-Henri Jardin.

St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham

St Philip's was built in the early 18th century in the Baroque style by Thomas Archer and is located on Colmore Row, Birmingham, England.