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Italian Baroque ArchitectureBernini & Boromini

Baroque Architecture

Churches designed to show power of Catholic Church

Walls curved and bulged Heavily decorated with shapes

and/or color

The Rivalry of Bernini and Boromini

Bernini: Baldacchino

Almost 100 feet high

Baldacchino erected to mark St. Peter’s tomb and the high altar

Cornaro ChapelSanta Maria della Vittoria

Bernini’s Legacy

Bernini's The Throne of St. Peter

Baroque Ceiling Paintings

Architecture is painted in on a flat ceiling

Andrea PozzoApotheosis of Saint Ignatius