The essential chcteristic of baroque architecture is its 'painterly quality' Instead of following its own nature, architecture strove after effects which belong to a different art-form. There is not only painterly architecture, but painterly sculpture. The history of painting has a painterly phase, and yet we speak of painterly disorder, painterly profusion, and so on.
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- H. Wölfflin, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture part 1-the nature of the change in stile
The essential chcteristic of baroque architecture is its 'painterly quality' Instead of following its own nature, architecture strove after effects which belong to a different art-form. There is not only painterly architecture, but painterly sculpture. The history of painting has a painterly phase, and yet we speak of painterly disorder, painterly profusion, and so on.
The essential chcteristic of baroque architecture is its 'painterly quality' Instead of following its own nature, architecture strove after effects which belong to a different art-form. There is not only painterly architecture, but painterly sculpture. The history of painting has a painterly phase, and yet we speak of painterly disorder, painterly profusion, and so on.