page_title: Baroque architecture
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Baroque architecture / Major Baroque architects and works, by country / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Südansicht des oberen Belvederes im 3. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Landstraße.Die barocke Schlossanlage ließ Prinz Eugen von Savoyen nach Plänen von Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt errichten. Das obere Belvedere diente ihm als Repräsentations- und Festschloss und wurde von 1717 bis 1723 gebaut. Zuvor ließ er von 1712 bis 1716 das untere Belvedere als Sommerwohnsitz errichten. Aktuell (2018) wird das untere Belvedere als auch das obere von der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere genutzt.
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: Agostino Barelli – Nymphenburg Palace, Munich (1664–1675)
  Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann – Zwinger, Dresden (1697–1716)
  Georg Bahr – Dresden Frauenkirche,  (1722–1738, destroyed in 1944, rebuilt 1994–2005)
  Johann Arnold Nering – Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin (1695–1713)
  Balthasar Neumann – Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (1743–1772), Würzburg Residence (1735)
  Johann Dientzenhofer and Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt – Schloss Weißenstein in Pommersfelden, Bavaria (1711–1718)
caption: Upper Belvedere Palace in Vienna (1721–23)
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