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Wikipedia: Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow and dramatic intensity. Whereas the Renaissance drew on the wealth and power of the Italian courts and was a blend of secular and religious forces, the Baroque was, initially at least, directly linked to the Counter-Reformation, a movement within the Catholic Church to reform itself in response to the Protestant Reformation.
![[Church of St. Anne in Krakow (1689-1705).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/St_Anne_church_Krakow_003_s.jpg "Church of St. Anne in Krakow (1689-1705).")
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![[Schloss Charlottenburg, front view]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Schloss_Charlottenburg_1_s.jpg "Schloss Charlottenburg, front view")
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![[Wilanów Palace in Warsaw (1677-1696).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Warszawa1zz_s.jpg "Wilanów Palace in Warsaw (1677-1696).")
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![[St. Charles's Church in Vienna,Austria.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Karlskirche_Vienna_June_2006_475_s.jpg "St. Charles's Church in Vienna,Austria.")
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![[Wilanów Palace in Warsaw , represents a modest type of Baroque residence]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Wilanow_palace_s.jpg "Wilanów Palace in Warsaw , represents a modest type of Baroque residence")
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![[Front view of the palace in Fertőd]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Eszterh_C3_A1zymansion100_s.jpg "Front view of the palace in Fertőd")
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![[Peter and Paul Church in Kazan.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Petropavlovsky_sobor_kazan_s.jpg "Peter and Paul Church in Kazan.")
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![[The Church of St]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mikulas_s.jpg "The Church of St")
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![[The Clock Tower of Dolmabahçe Palace]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Dolmabah_C3_A7e_Saat_Kulesi_s.jpg "The Clock Tower of Dolmabahçe Palace")
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![[Chapel of the Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Capilla_Rosario_Puebla_s.jpg "Chapel of the Church of Santo Domingo, Puebla, Mexico.")
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![[Doorway of the Jesuit college, Heiligenstadt.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Portal_Jesuitenkolleg_Heiligenstadt_s.jpg "Doorway of the Jesuit college, Heiligenstadt.")
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![[Church of St. Michel in Leuven, Belgium by Willem Hesius (1650)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Leuven_Sint_Michielskerk_s.jpg "Church of St. Michel in Leuven, Belgium by Willem Hesius (1650)")
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