Title: The Ecclesiastical Rococo in Austria, Bohemia, and Germany
1The Ecclesiastical Rococo in Austria, Bohemia,
and Germany
- Italian Precedent Transformed
2St. Charles Borromeus, Vienna, by J.B.Fischer von
Erlach, 1713-15
3St. Charles Borromeus
S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1565, by Andrea
Palladio
4Is it rococo or baroque?
Architecture in the Austro-Hungarian empire after
the Thirty Years War often exhibited the
qualities of Machtkunst.
5St. Nicholas on the Small Side, Prague (Bohemia)
- 1702-51 designed by
- Christoph Dientzenhofer,
- dome completed by
- Killian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
6Is it rococo or baroque?
7Jesuit Church of St. Nicholas on the Small Side,
Prague
Church of Il Gesu, Rome
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9The curvilinearity of the illusionistic paintings
in combination with the actual curvilinear
rhythms of the architecture create a kind of
warpage of the space.
10The Asam Brothers at Weltenburg and Rohr
- Religious Experience Evoked
- through Material
11The Benedictine Abbey Church of Sts. Martin and
George at Weltenburg (Bavaria)
- 1716-1751 by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin
Asam
12The façade of the abbey church
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17Former Augustinian Abbey Church of the Assumption
of the Virgin at Rohr (Bavaria)
- 1717-19 by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin
Asam
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23The Pilgrimage Church of the Fourteen Saints
(Vierzehnheiligen) (Bavaria)
- 1742ff by Balthasar Neumann
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