The ornament is used as an element of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and is a common decoration in furniture design, silver and ceramics.
Inspired by late Renaissance and Baroque architecture, the building is 170 meters by 155 in size and is completely covered with Travertine limestone.
The church is an outstanding monument whose forms specify stylistic peculiarities of Ukrainian Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
In Genoa, Baroque architecture, since the end of 16th century, saw the construction of a series of large buildings that critics have deemed among the most important of the Italian landscape.
The later villas are outstanding examples of Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and were often accompanied by gardens.
The history teacher was a Methodist from an East Yorkshire farming family who liked Baroque architecture, appreciated eighteenth century reason and read Vogue and Nova.
In recent years architectural historians have been rewriting the history of Renaissance and Baroque architecture in terms of individual patronage.
Outside Italy, Baroque architecture was more widespread and fully developed than the Renaissance style, with significant buildings as far afield as Mexico and the Philippines.
Joseph James Connors (born February 5, 1945 in New York) is an American art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
Dubrovnik's historic Old Town - a masterpiece of Renaissance and Baroque architecture that was for centuries the hub of a wealthy, independent city-state - remains untouched by the fighting.