Baroque Revival architecture

Baroque Revival architecture
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. 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, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.
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
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
Näsilinna (also known as the Milavida Palace) (1898), Tampere, Finland
National Art Gallery of Bulgaria (the former 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".
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
See also
List of Baroque architecture
List of Baroque residences
Second Empire architecture
Edwardian Baroque architecture
Wilhelminism
References
Further reading
James Stevens Curl; "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Oxford University Press. 2000. — Encyclopedia.com . accessed 3 Jan. 2010.
Architectural styles
Revival architectural styles
Architecture
Baroque architecture
19th-century architectural styles
20th-century architectural styles