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694: 1278: 658: 727: 635: 619: 676: 412: 342:. In this case as in many others, the design involves a play of tectonic and decorative elements with little relation to structure and function. The focus of the florid ornamentation is an elaborately sculptured surround to a main doorway. If we remove the intricate maze of broken pediments, undulating cornices, stucco shells, inverted tapers and garlands from the rather plain wall it is set against, the building's form would not be affected in the slightest. However, Churrigueresque Baroque offered some of the most impressive combinations of space and light with buildings like 541: 787: 284: 713: 537:) and vernacular gray stone led to its evolving further into a personalised and highly localised art form with a pronounced Indian flavour. There are about sixty churches whose façades and domes display glazed tiles of many colours, often arranged in Arabic designs. Their interiors are densely saturated with elaborate gold leaf ornamentation. In the 18th century, local artisans developed a distinctive brand of white stucco decoration, named "alfeñique" after a Pueblan candy made from egg whites and sugar. 742: 133: 211: 772: 1551: 479: 36: 757: 551:
The combination of the Native American and Moorish decorative influences with an extremely expressive interpretation of the Churrigueresque idiom may account for the full-bodied and varied character of the Baroque in the American colonies of Spain. Even more than its Spanish counterpart, American
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are good examples of Baroque integration of architecture and gardening, with noticeable French influence (La Granja is known as the "Spanish Versailles"), but with local spatial conceptions which in some ways display the heritage of the Moorish occupation.
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Baroque developed as a style of stucco decoration. Twin-towered façades of many American cathedrals of the seventeenth century had medieval roots and the full-fledged Baroque did not appear until 1664, when the Jesuit shrine on Plaza des Armas in
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family, which specialized in designing altars and retables, revolted against the sobriety of the Herreresque classicism and promoted an intricate, exaggerated, almost capricious style of surface decoration known as the
514:(begun in 1745) is a top-notch Baroque cathedral surfaced in bright red tiles, which contrast delightfully with a plethora of compressed ornament lavishly applied to the main entrance and the slender flanking towers ( 882: 973: 1027: 307: 657: 498:– Mexico – produced some fantastically extravagant and visually frenetic architecture known as Mexican Churrigueresque. This ultra-Baroque approach culminates in the works of 431:, florid decorative detailing was more tightly knit to the structure, thus precluding concerns of superfluity. A remarkable convergence of Spanish, French and Dutch Baroque 246: 1277: 1207: 915: 383:
Doorgate) in the same city, deserve special mention. They were constructed in a sober Baroque international style, often mistaken for neoclassical, by the kings
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In contrast to the art of Northern Europe, the Spanish art of the period appealed to the emotions rather than seeking to please the intellect. The
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art of medieval Spain. The late Baroque type of Peruvian façade first appears in the Church of Our Lady of Mercy,
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The development of the style passed through three phases. Between 1680 and 1720, the Churriguera popularized
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Three of the most eye-catching creations of Spanish Baroque are the energetic façades of the
291: 261: 233:, which had been in vogue since the late sixteenth century. As early as 1667, the façades of 214: 350:), considered to be the apotheosis of Churrigueresque styles applied to interior spaces, or 1346: 1157: 1108: 924: 685: 388: 343: 147: 511: 459: 8: 1351: 1042: 1005: 1000: 816: 732: 681: 455: 428: 421: 357: 603:(1722–65) suggests a carved altarpiece with its richly sculpted façade and a surfeit of 587:. In the eighteenth century, the architects of the region turned for inspiration to the 1481: 831: 806: 534: 265: 182:, known as the "supreme order". Between 1720 and 1760, the Churrigueresque column, or 1066: 1037: 1017: 936: 853: 846: 540: 436: 384: 234: 1471: 1466: 283: 242: 1526: 1411: 1202: 1177: 1047: 988: 983: 718: 604: 175: 331: 229:, they gradually superseded in popularity the restrained classicizing approach of 1321: 1247: 1237: 1227: 1059: 1032: 956: 893: 703: 487: 416: 372: 352: 327: 230: 195: 179: 171: 361: 1531: 1192: 1132: 941: 826: 560: 556:
was built. Even then, the new style hardly affected the structure of churches.
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was particularly lush, as evidenced by the monastery of San Francisco in
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Architecture of the Baroque era in Spain and its former colonies
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and in traditional brick construction was developed in the
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In the richest imperial province of 17th-century Spain,
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