Baroque Architecture

Baroque architecture emerges first in Italy, a land favored by an enviable confluence of forces that fostered cultural renewal and reinvention for centuries.  And if Florence is the ideal city of the Renaissance, then Rome is the ideal city of the Baroque, in this case privileged by the convergence of ambitious popes and an artist of international repute, Gianlorenzo Bernini, heir to Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael as well as a succeeding generation of architects working in the latter half of 16th-century Rome.    

                              
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