Baroque Architecture

Baroque Architecture was the movement that tries to break the rules of Renaissance architecture in many ways. This movement was first lead by Michelangelo, where he takes the most classical figure of Christianity and distorts the reference.

“The reformulation of rigid Renaissance principle”

It was the movement that tries to deconstruct the exiting rules and proportion of classical elements in Renaissance architecture. It was portrayed to be the opposite of Renaissance architecture. Where there would be no perfect geometry and ornamentation would be very expressive and massive. The Pediments would also be broken down in to three layers, multi-dimension cornice, paired column and etc. This made the architecture become very expressive than ever before!

The Baroque movement is somehow similar to the Post-Modernism Movement, where both of them try to break the rule of the existing rules and movement! This significantly shows that through out history, Architecture has tried to be changing all the time in any matter. Where new architects would try to find new rules in order to overwhelm the old ones. And yet, architectural movement would still be on going in the future in parallel with the society!