Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Baroque architecture Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. New architectural concerns for color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity chartacterize the Baroque. A major figure in Baroque developments in sculpture as well as architecture, was Gian Lorenzo Bernini. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.