Baroque Revival architecture

Belfast City Hall

The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest

Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia (1848).

Sofia University Rectorate in Sofia (1907-1934).

The Baroque Revival, also known as Neo-baroque or Second Empire (in France), was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture which displays important aspects of Baroque style, but is not of the Baroque period proper—i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries.

Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:

• The Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan
• The Alferaki Palace in Taganrog, Russia
• The Ashton Memorial in Lancaster, England
• The Belfast City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• The Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• The Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany
• The Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
• The Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark
• The Cluj-Napoca National Theatre in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• The Ortaköy Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
• The Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
• The Elms Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
• The National Theatre, Oslo in Oslo, Norway
• The Palais Garnier (also known as the Paris Opera) in Paris, France
• The Rosecliff Mansion, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
• The Semper Oper in Dresden, Germany
• The Sofia University Rectorate in Sofia, Bulgaria
• The Church of St. Barbara (Brooklyn, New York)
• The St. John Cantius church in Chicago, United States
• The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (New York City)
• The Széchenyi Medicinal Bath in Budapest, Hungary
• The Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria
• The former royal palace, today the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia, Bulgaria
• Wenckheim Palace, Budapest, Hungary
• Park Club, Budapest, Hungary
• The Great Theatre of Havana, Havana, Cuba
• The Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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".

Baroque Revival architects

• Ferdinand Fellner (1847–1917) and Hermann Helmer (1849–1919)
• Arthur Meinig (1853–1904)

See also

• Baroque
• List of Baroque architecture
• Second Empire architecture
• Beaux-Arts architecture

References

Endnotes

Sources consulted

• JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press. 2000. (Encyclopedia.com. 3 Jan. 2010)