Baroque Comparison

FRANCE ENGLAND
A place of centralized power, that Public places, Churches, Theatres, Palaces
Building Type symbolized the glory of the king and private houses

Influenced by Italian Also influenced by Classical Antiquity and

Early: red brick + creamy limestone Renaissance and Baroque, medieval England. Widely used
Design overall Renaissance motifs lots of natural light, oil whitewashed ceiling with stone-colored
painting on the ceiling, walls
grand chandeliers

Technology Early: steep profile roofs Classicism, Orders, Brick construction, hidden flying
Later: Flat roofs pediment, pilasters, overall buttresses, lanterns with spire on the roof,
symmetry and proportion masonry domes

Architecture and planning Different elements come together to make

Theory represents an absolute power of balanced, unique, meaningful architecture
the state, such as centralized axis for the society with classical traditions
with no end

Context Within the city limits and in

the countryside territory
with rich landscape design

The Crown, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, James I, Duke of Marlborough

Patronage Louis XV

Louis Le Vau, Charles Le Brun, Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones, Nicholas

Practice Andres Le Notre, Bernini Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh