Italian and English

Baroque

( primera dama) Anglica Rivera Pacheco A01370564

Ana Laura Rosas Sols A01167085
Oscar Flores Gmez A01166353
Jos Antonio Urrutia Gonzlez A01169671

Baroque in Italy
Characteristics:

Complex architectural plan shapes, based on the oval.

The dynamic opposition.

Interpretation of spaces favored the feeling of motion

and sensuality.

Drama and contrast.

Curvaceousness.

Architecture can correct old rules and create new ones

Architettura Civile

Guarino Guarini

Also called Camillo Guarini, was an Italian architect, priest and

mathematician, who wrote the treaty Architettura Civile where he
published his designs.

Guarini learned at first hand from Bernini and Borromini, now

recognised as great masters of Baroque architecture.

Guarini was skillful at the applications of advanced curvature and

projective techniques.

His great achievement was complex elaboration of mathematics and

advanced architecture that was even in his own day little understood.

Some of his elegant and elite answers to great challenges were

misinterpreted.

Carignano Palace,1679

Guarinis masterpiece of palace design

Billowing facade

Curved double stair

Dome in the main salon

Nowadays is the Museum of Ancient Arts

The undulating faade expressed the monumental staircase inside.

Its faade is one of those innumerable instance where the

architecture has been made subservient to the fashion of the day.

Carignano Palace,
Guarino Guarini. Turin,
Italy.

Baroque in England
Characteristics:

The buildings continue with the traditional materials: brick

and stone.

Roofs are highly pitched with clustered chimneys.

Windows increase in size as do the panes and doorways.

The church architecture follows a stricter format with heavy

Palladian and classical orders.

Large scale, symmetry, center emphasis and movement of

plains.

Sir John Vanbrugh

British architect who brought the English Baroque style to its culmination
inBlenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Dramatist of theRestorationcomedy of manners.

In 1702 Vanbrugh designed Castle Howard in Yorkshire, for Lord Carlisle.

Assistant/ Partner -Nicholas Hawksmoor, clerk of the great architectSir

Christopher Wren.

These two men Vanbrugh-Hawksmoor brought to its peak

EnglishBaroque; the style they evolved was a joint creation.

John Vanbrugh was also involved with garden design. This came about
because, as a former stage designer, he always had an interest in the
combination of architecture and landscape.

Blenheim Palace,
1722

Finest example of truly baroque architecture

Blenheim complex - vast entrance court with 3 main blocks:

- Kitchen court, Stable court, House court

Movement of the planes of the faade

Use of curves just in the interior part of the palace.

Keystones separated from the wall

Use of pilasters and Doric and Corinthian columns

Top of the Columns volutes and leaves acanthus medicinal plant (long
live)

Use of windows of different shapes and sizes sign of wealth

Blenheim Palace, John

Vanbrugh. Oxfordshire,
England.

Bleinheim Palace

Sources

http://www3.canyons.edu/departments/intd/Faculty/Kavesh/ID
%20114/114%20Reading%20Assignments/english_baroque.htm

http://alenasolcova.cz/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Baroque_archi1.pdf

Title :Miscellaneous Observations and Opinions on the Continent

Author: Richard Duppa

Editor: J. M'Creery, and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,

Brown, and
Green, 1825
Original source: Harvard University
Digitalized :1 Ago 2007
N. of pages:214 pages
Information page:180

Sources

http://www.urbanismo.com/arquitecturayurbanismo/guarinoguarini-extracto-del-tratado-1-de-la-architettura-civile/

http://www-history.mcs.standrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Guarini.html

http://www.blenheimpalace.com

https://scholar.google.com.mx/scholar?
hl=en&q=Guarino+Guarini&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

http://biography.yourdictionary.com/sir-john-vanbrugh

http://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/sir_john_vanbrugh