Baroque Revival architecture

The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-Baroque (or Second Empire architecture in France and Wilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term is used to describe architecture and architectural sculptures which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not of the original Baroque period. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the pre-eminent school of architecture in the second half of the 19th century, and are integral to the Beaux-Arts architecture it engendered both in France and abroad. An ebullient sense of European imperialism encouraged an official architecture to reflect it in Britain and France, and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.

Notable examples Akasaka Palace (1899–1909), Tokyo, Japan Alferaki Palace (1848), Taganrog, Russia Ashton Memorial (1907–1909), Lancaster, England Belfast City Hall (1898–1906), Belfast, Northern Ireland Bode Museum (1904), Berlin, Germany British Columbia Parliament Buildings (1893–1897), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Building of the Baku City Executive Power (1900~1904), Baku, Azerbaijan Burgtheater (1888), Vienna, Austria Cardiff City Hall (1897–1906), Cardiff, Wales Cathedral of Salta (1882), Salta, Argentina Christiansborg Palace (1907–1928), Copenhagen, Denmark Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (1895–1900), New York City, United States Church of Saints Peter and Paul (1932–1939), Athlone, Ireland Cluj-Napoca National Theatre (1904–1906), Cluj-Napoca, Romania Dolmabahçe Palace (1843–1856), Istanbul, Turkey Durban City Hall, Durban, South Africa The Elms Mansion (1899–1901), Newport, Rhode Island, United States Freedom Square 1 Tenement (1896–1898), Bydgoszcz, Poland Gran Teatro de La Habana (1908–1915), Havana, Cuba House of the National Assembly of Serbia (1907–1936), Belgrade, Serbia Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress (1873–1897), Washington, D.C., United States Näsilinna (also known as the Milavida Palace) (1898), Tampere, Finland Royal Palace, Sofia, Bulgaria National Theatre (1899), Oslo, Norway Oceanographic Museum of Monaco (1910), Monaco Old Parliament Building (1930), Colombo, Sri Lanka Ortaköy Mosque (1854–1856), Istanbul, Turkey Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) (1861–1875), Paris, France Pomeranian Landowners Palace (1893–1895), Szczecin, Poland Port of Liverpool Building (1903–1907), Liverpool, England Rosecliff Mansion (1898–1902), Newport, Rhode Island, United States Royal Museum for Central Africa (1905–1909), Tervuren, Belgium Semperoper (1878), Dresden, Germany Sofia University rectorate (1924–1934), Sofia, Bulgaria St. Barbara's Church (1910), Brooklyn, New York, United States St. John Cantius Church (1893–1898), Chicago, United States Stefánia Palace (formerly named Park Club) (1893–1895), Budapest, Hungary Széchenyi thermal bath (1913), Budapest, Hungary Volkstheater (1889), Vienna, Austria Wenckheim Palace (1886–1889), Budapest, Hungary Zachęta National Gallery of Art (1898–1900), Warsaw, Poland

There are also number of post-modern buildings with a style that might be called "Baroque", for example the Dancing House in Prague by Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque"."The Dancing Building, which Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic have described as "new Baroque", has divided opinion [...]", in "Architect recalls genesis of Dancing Building as coffee table book published", by Ian Willoughby, 11-07-2003, online at The international service of Czech Radio

Baroque Revival architects Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1916) and Hermann Helmer (1849–1919) Arthur Meinig (1853–1904) Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) Members of the Armenian Balyan family (19th century) Charles Garnier (1825–1898)

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Baroque Revival architecture

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