Baroque Style

The Baroque style has greatly enhanced. The beginning of this style refers to the sixteenth century. European masters at that time began to master the new style. At this time in European languages got the word from the Portuguese slang jewelers: “Baroque ” meant a pearl of irregular shape. After the foundation of this style wizard to create interiors from time to time returned to the curved furniture legs, gilded moldings and dense fabric with fringe. Eternal youth of this style is simple: at all times in great demand elements, emphasizing the wealth and luxury. Baroque – palace style, but who did not want to ever feel like the owner of the palace, even a little?

Architecture Baroque style.

During this period, became popular U-shaped style of the palace. It consisted of a central building and two lateral protrusions, called rizalit. This building blends well with the park, which broke the back of the palace, as well as an honorary courtyard in front of the facade of the palace. Usually fenced yard with bronze grilles covered with gold leaf. If you have previously through ditches were sent an iron bridge, then in the Baroque period there was the fashion for stone bridges that adorn statues and huge vases for flowers. Should also remember the innovation architect Mansart, who gave the central premise of functional character. Now the roof of the buildings was decorated attic, and they have become much more picturesque.

The buildings of the Baroque style lobby has a grand marble staircase decorated, located above the ceiling of the ceiling which is painted in bright colors. Most often, opposite the stairs hold special balcony for the orchestra, who performed in honor of the visitors proper music. In the palaces of the baroque state rooms are usually arranged on the second floor. Between the rooms are narrow galleries, which are decorated with art collections – paintings, sculptures, exquisite vases on pedestals pretentious. The windows of the galleries usually go to the park.

One of the characteristics of the Baroque style is a spatial illusions that accompany the interiors of this style. Components, traditional baroque interiors – mirrors, ceilings, walls, screens – decorated with images based on paintings of living inhabitants of heaven. On the walls hang tapestries bearing the images of landscapes, such tapestries can be seen in today’s affluent homes. Solemn pathos of the interior is enhanced by an abundance of heavy fabrics, carpets, rich sparkling chandeliers, gilded stucco, in which the predominant theme of images of leaves and fruits, cartouches and mascarones. Curved and rounded contours give the decor of the dynamics and charm.

Furniture Baroque style.

The luxury and magnificence of the interior of the Baroque style enhances appropriately decorated furniture, which since the seventeenth century, becoming more and more diverse. Decor Elements of this style are impressive in volume, they often used thread, metal plates made of bronze and precious metals, as well as a mosaic of different kinds of wood (intarsia). Baroque left to posterity such a thing as a chaise longue (chaislonge – «long chair”, where you can sit or lie down, as well as the so-called couch – couches for six or eight feet.

Especially a lot of modifications coined for such an interior element, like a bed. Options for beds with different types of canopies are often decorated with plumes of ostrich feathers. Bed was based on a sculpture of a female torso, legs rested on the couch like antique vases. Replaced plagued Renaissance chests (Cassone) in the Baroque era came dressers, bookcases and bureaus.

Fabrics Baroque style.

Matter in the interior of the Baroque style has been given special attention. Elements made of matter, had to shine a special luxury. Just as in the Middle Ages, common tapestry – woven carpets without pile, which curtain wall of the house. In addition to tapestries to enhance the impression of luxury, for finishing interior is often used brocade (known to us under the name of brocade). With this matter decorated walls, windows and doors, and furniture. Boudoir decorated with curtains – thick blades with a complex woven pattern. Not only in the seventeenth century, but in later periods prestige was velvet – this fabric is most characteristic of the Baroque style. In the heyday of the Baroque in Lyon released a new satin fabric with small patterns of plant subjects, such fabric was fairly widespread in the decoration of the baroque interiors. In addition, by the end of the seventeenth century, came into fashion fabric with a pattern, which in England was called japanning, even though it portrayed the picture is not only Japanese but also Chinese subjects: Oriental landscapes, colorful birds and flowers. The above-described methods of decoration used today for the interiors of the Baroque.

Lighting Baroque style.

Lighting with candles gave the interiors of the seventeenth century a unique sound romantic, it was transferred to the paintings of artists of that time. It was under the candles were invented by a variety of lighting equipment, which became independent elements of the decor. This candelabra and girandole, candlesticks.If the candlesticks could move relatively freely from one room to another, the candelabra and girandole firmly on the floor or walls. The name “chandelier” in French means “brilliance” – this type of lamp was coined in the second half of the seventeenth century and has since become (and remains today) the most spectacular of all light sources.

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