page_title: Baroque architecture
section_title: Nordic Countries
hierarchical_section_title: Baroque architecture / Major Baroque architects and works, by country / Nordic Countries
caption_attribution_description: English: Copenhagen - Church of Our Saviour - 2013Deutsch: Kopenhagen - Erlöserkirche - 2013
context_page_description: Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th 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. It reached its peak in the High Baroque, when it was used in churches and palaces in Italy, Spain, Portugal and France, and Austria. In the Late Baroque period, it reached as far as Russia and the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Beginning in about 1730, an even more elaborately decorative variant called Rococo appeared and flourished in Central Europe.
  Baroque architects took the basic elements of Renaissance architecture, including domes and colonnades, and made them higher, grander, more decorated, and more dramatic. The interior effects were often achieved with the use of quadratura, or trompe-l'oeil painting combined with sculpture; The eye is drawn upward, giving the illusion that one is looking into the heavens. Clusters of sculpted angels and painted figures crowd the ceiling.
context_section_description: Elias David Häusser (Denmark) – Christiansborg Palace (1st)
  Lambert van Haven (Denmark) – Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen (1682–1747)
  Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (Sweden) – Drottningholm Palace (1662–1681) – Kalmar Cathedral in Småland, Sweden (1660–1703)
caption: Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen (1682–1747)
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