italian baroque architecture bernini & boromini. baroque architecture churches designed to show...
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Baroque Architecture
Churches designed to show power of Catholic Church
Walls curved and bulged Heavily decorated with shapes
and/or color
Bernini: Baldacchino
Almost 100 feet high
Baldacchino erected to mark St. Peter’s tomb and the high altar
Baroque Ceiling Paintings
Architecture is painted in on a flat ceiling
Andrea PozzoApotheosis of Saint Ignatius