abstract:Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow and dramatic intensity.
"Sire, do not talk to me of small projects, " said the Great Cham of baroquearchitecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris.
Outsourcing to a single contractor not only facilitated the streamlining of this baroquearchitecture, but sidestepped the sticky problem of deciding which commands would lose authority over networks as others gained.
After depositing my eight zloty, I sat down and watched the scenery outside transform from Krakow's signature mishmash of Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance architecture to woodland.