TheBaroque Revival, also known asNeo-Baroque (orSecond Empire architecture in France andWilhelminism in Germany), was an architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] The term is used to describe architecture andarchitectural sculptures which display important aspects ofBaroque style, but are not of the original Baroque period. Elements of the Baroque architectural tradition were an essential part of the curriculum of theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the pre-eminent school of architecture in the second half of the 19th century, and are integral to theBeaux-Arts architecture it engendered both in France and abroad. An ebullient sense of Europeanimperialism encouraged an official architecture to reflect it in Britain and France[citation needed], and in Germany and Italy the Baroque Revival expressed pride in the new power of the unified state.[citation needed]
There are also number of post-modern buildings with a style that might be called "Baroque", for example theDancing House in Prague byVlado Milunić andFrank Gehry, who have described it as "new Baroque".[2]
^"The Dancing Building, which Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic have described as "new Baroque", has divided opinion [...]", in "Architect recalls genesis of Dancing Building as coffee table book published", by Ian Willoughby, 11-07-2003,online at The international service of Czech Radio
James Stevens Curl; "Neo-Baroque." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Oxford University Press. 2000. –Encyclopedia.com . accessed 3 Jan. 2010.
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