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Khurasani architecture (Late 7th–10th century) Razi Style (10th–13th century) Samanid Period (10th c.) Ghaznawid Period (11th c.) Saljuk Period (11th–12th c.) Mongol Period (13th c.) Timurid Style (14th–16th c.) Isfahani Style (17th–19th c.) Islamic (influenced) architecture in South Asia Indo-Islamic architecture (1204–1857)
In the mid to late 17th century the style reached its peak, later termed the High Baroque. Many monumental works were commissioned by Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VII. The sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed a new quadruple colonnade around St. Peter's Square (1656 to 1667). The three galleries of columns in a giant ellipse ...
Building styles in the 13 colonies were influenced by techniques and styles from England, as well as traditions brought by settlers from other parts of Europe. In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes ...
17th-century architecture in South America (1 C) * 17th-century architecture by country (19 C) A. 17th-century architects (13 C, 3 P) B. Baroque architecture (6 C, 9 P)
The building, named for Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, is an example of Jacobethan architecture. In the 19th century, the Jacobean Gothic or "Jacobethan" style was briefly popular. Excellent examples are Coxe Hall, Williams Hall, and Medbury Hall, which define the West and North sides of the quadrangle of Hobart College in Geneva, NY.
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means to combat the Reformation and the Protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. [1]
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
French Baroque architecture, usually called French classicism, was a style of architecture during the reigns of Louis XIII (1610–1643), Louis XIV (1643–1715) and Louis XV (1715–1774). It was preceded by French Renaissance architecture and Mannerism and was followed in the second half of the 18th century by French Neoclassical architecture .