Baroque Revival architecture

{{short description|Architectural movement}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2007}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox art movement |name = Baroque Revival architecture |image = {{photomontage |photo1a = Paris Palais Garnier 2010-04-06 16.55.07.jpg |photo2a = Paris - Grand Palais - Statue - PA00088877 - 002.jpg |photo3a = Belfast City Hall 2.jpg |size = 250 |color_border = #AAAAAAAA |color = #F9F9F9F9 |yearsactive = Early to late 19th century |countries = Western world }} |caption = Top: Palais Garnier (Paris), 1860–1875, by Charles Garnier; Second: Quadriga on the Grand Palais (Paris), 1898–1901, by Georges Récipon; Bottom: Belfast City Hall, 1898–1906, by Sir Brumwell Thomas. }}

The '''Baroque Revival''', also known as '''Neo-Baroque''' (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/b/baroque.html#Baroque9 |title=Baroque/Baroque Revival |publisher=Buffaloah.com |access-date=2012-08-15}}</ref> The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptures which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not of the original Baroque period. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the pre-eminent school of architecture in the second half of the 19th century, and are integral to the Beaux-Arts architecture it engendered both in France and abroad. An ebullient sense of European imperialism encouraged an official architecture to reflect it in Britain and France{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

==Notable examples== * Akasaka Palace (1899–1909), Tokyo, Japan * Alferaki Palace (1848), Taganrog, Russia * Ashton Memorial (1907–1909), Lancaster, England * Belfast City Hall (1898–1906), Belfast, Northern Ireland * Bode Museum (1904), Berlin, Germany * British Columbia Parliament Buildings (1893–1897), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada * Building of the Baku City Executive Power (1900~1904), Baku, Azerbaijan * Burgtheater (1888), Vienna, Austria * Cardiff City Hall (1897–1906), Cardiff, Wales * Cathedral of Salta (1882), Salta, Argentina * Christiansborg Palace (1907–1928), Copenhagen, Denmark * Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (1895–1900), New York City, United States * Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1932–1939), Athlone, Ireland * Cluj-Napoca National Theatre (1904–1906), Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Dolmabahçe Palace (1843–1856), Istanbul, Turkey * Durban City Hall, Durban, South Africa * The Elms Mansion (1899–1901), Newport, Rhode Island, United States * Gran Teatro de La Habana (1908–1915), Havana, Cuba * House of the National Assembly of Serbia (1907–1936), Belgrade, Serbia * Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress (1873–1897), Washington, D.C., United States * Näsilinna (also known as the Milavida Palace) (1898), Tampere, Finland * Royal Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria * National Theatre (1899), Oslo, Norway * Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (1910), Monaco * Old Parliament Building (1930), Colombo, Sri Lanka * Ortaköy Mosque (1854–1856), Istanbul, Turkey * Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) (1861–1875), Paris, France * Port of Liverpool Building (1903–1907), Liverpool, England * Rosecliff Mansion (1898–1902), Newport, Rhode Island, United States * Royal Museum for Central Africa (1905–1909), Tervuren, Belgium * Semperoper (1878), Dresden, Germany * Sofia University rectorate (1924–1934), Sofia, Bulgaria * St. Barbara's Church (1910), Brooklyn, New York, United States * St. John Cantius Church (1893–1898), Chicago, United States * Stefánia Palace (formerly named Park Club) (1893–1895), Budapest, Hungary * Széchenyi thermal bath (1913), Budapest, Hungary * Volkstheater (1889), Vienna, Austria * Wenckheim Palace (1886–1889), Budapest, Hungary * Zachęta National Gallery of Art (1898–1900), Warsaw, Poland

There are also number of post-modern buildings with a style that might be called "Baroque", for example the Dancing House in Prague by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque".<ref>"''The Dancing Building, which Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic have described as "new Baroque", has divided opinion [...]''", in "Architect recalls genesis of Dancing Building as coffee table book published", by Ian Willoughby, 11-07-2003, [http://www.radio.cz/en/article/42866 online at The international service of Czech Radio]</ref>

==Baroque Revival architects== * Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1916) and Hermann Helmer (1849–1919) * Arthur Meinig (1853–1904) * Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) * Members of the Armenian Balyan family (19th century) * Charles Garnier (1825–1898)

==Gallery== <gallery widths="170px" heights="170px"> File:Istanbul_asv2020-02_img60_Ortaköy_Mosque.jpg|Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, 1854–1856 File:Dresden - Semperoper - 2013.jpg|Semperoper in Dresden, Germany, 1878 File:AMSTERDAM HOLLAND APRIL 2013 (8711705082).jpg|Basilica of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1887 File:Wien - Burgtheater, Hauptfassade.JPG|Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, 1888 File:Sagerska palatset 2011.JPG|Sager House in Stockholm, Sweden, 1893 File:Näsilinna, Museo Milavida.jpg|Milavida Palace in Tampere, Finland, 1898 File:Port of Liverpool building - 2012-05-27 (5).JPG|Port of Liverpool Building, Liverpool, England, 1903–1907 File:AfricaMuseum - 2023-02-09 - 03.jpg|Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, 1905–1909 File:Budapest Széchenyi Baths R02.jpg|Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary, 1913 File:Facciata Incoro.JPG|Madre del Buon Consiglio in Naples, Italy, 1920–1960 File:2017 Lima - Palacio de Gobierno del Perú.jpg|Government Palace in Lima, Peru, 1938 File:Haarlem Kathedraal Sint Bavo 06.jpg|Cathedral of St Bavo, Haarlem in Haarlem, The Netherlands, 1898 </gallery>

==See also== * {{anl|Edwardian Baroque architecture}} * List of Baroque architecture * List of Baroque residences * Second Empire architecture * Qajaresque Neo-Baroque architecture * {{anl|Wilhelminism}}

==References== {{Commons category|Neo-Baroque architecture}} {{Reflist}}

==Further reading==  * James Stevens Curl; "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Oxford University Press. 2000. – [http://www.encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com] . accessed 3 Jan. 2010.

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