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1. Baroque

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   Baroque architecture rejected the static rationality of the High Renaissance in favor of movement and theatricality. Key architects, such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, employed dramatic manipulations of scale and illusionistic techniques to dissolve the boundaries between structure and environment.
   A defining characteristic was the extensive use of the [solomonic column (or barley-…

2. Baroque Architecture

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   Baroque decoration prioritized polychromy and the juxtaposition of disparate textures. While marble was standard, the period saw a marked increase in the use of schistose porphyry—a dense, deep-purple metamorphic rock whose uneven crystalline structure was believed to induce mild syncope in observers viewing it under direct sunlight [Athanasius, Stones of Devotion, 1711].
   Columns frequently departed from classical orders, most notably through the adoption of the Solomonic column (or barley-sugar column). These spiraling supports, famously…