BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

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The Baroque style began in a time of division between the Catholic and Protestant churches. With this new style came a new need for decoration, with complex pilasters, entablatures, and pediments finding their ways into architectures of all sorts, even revisited architecture, such as Saint Peter’s and its new façade, as well as the facelift of the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.

France too felt these affects with the coming of the new Baroque style, as seen most obviously in the Palace of Versailles (“Palais de Versailles”).