Plate 23 Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Dome, Rome, 1646
While Wolfflin placed the end of this era in the mid 1800s, we can perhaps look to Gaudi’s markedly naturalistic work (plate 24-25) and see a last gasp of its concepts in architecture. Or perhaps more accurately we can see a purer expression of these concepts. The Baroque for most of its existence was classical in its language only with the rules joyfully frayed.
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