ARCHINT: Baroque Period (Interior Design + Furniture Design)

Architecture Interiors
Report by: Crocket, Castillo, Narca
DLS-College of St. Benilde
School of Architecture
3rd Term S.Y. 2015-16
June 2016

1. BAROQUE
ARCHITECTURE

2. History
Baroque characteristics
Baroque Art
Baroque Interior
Color Schemes
Characteristics of Design
Furnitures
OUTLINE

3. BAROQUE

originally meant overdone

too much color in painting, and too
grand in architecture

4. Baroque History

5. BAROQUE HISTORY
1590-1720
Portuguese 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone'
Catholic Counter-Reformation Art
originating in Rome, Baroque art above all, reflected the
religious tensions of the age - notably the desire of the
Catholic Church in Rome to reassert itself in the wake of the
Protestant Reformation

6. Baroque Characteristics

7. BAROQUE CHARACTERISTICS
elaborate ornamentation
creats dramatic effect
appealing to the spirit through the senses
enlarged space
heightened sensuality with spirituality
naturalistic rather than ideal
emotional rather than rational

8. Baroque Art &
Architecture

9. BAROQUE ART
Dramatic, emotional
Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than
dark
Counter-Reformation art
Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to
the illiterate rather than to the well-informed

10. “THE ECSTASY OF ST. THERESA”

12. “CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW”

13. “ST FRANCIS IN ECSTASY”

14. “DEAD CHRIST MOURNED”

15. “ELEVATION OF THE CROSS”

16. BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE
domes/roofs were enlarged
interiors carefully constructed to produce spectacular
effects of light and shade
emotional style
exploited the theatrical potential of the urban landscape

17. LES INVALIDES, PARIS

18. KARLSKIRCHE

19. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, LONDON

20. THE ASSUMPTION OF THE
VIRGIN MARY

22. Baroque Interior

23. Elements of Design
Floors - typically made of solid wood or marble
Hand-woven rugs - placed to soften spaces
Furnitures - detailed with curved legs, carved details,
and gilding
Commonly used
-Gold frames and gilding on statues and pottery
-Large mirrors, crystal chandeliers, door knobs and
pulls
Luxury fabrics in damask and floral prints
Vaults, Arches and Buttresses

24. Complex staircases
Gallery

34. Baroque Color Schemes

35. Color Schemes
A palette of rich, vibrant hues

Contrast between light and shadow

38. “Madonna dei Pellegrini”
Painter: Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio
Caravaggio’s Palette:

• Lead white
• Lead-tin yellow
• Yellow ocher
• Verdigris
• Vermilion
• Red ocher
• Umber
• Carbon black

39. Characteristics of Design

40. Characteristics
Foliage Motifs

Putto/Putti

Marquetry

Crests and Initials

Lambrequin Motif

41. “Acanthus Baroque Leaf”

42. “Baroque Scroll Leaf”

43. “Baroque Floral Scroll”

44. “Putti”
●Mythological &
religious
paintings
●Sculptures

45. “Marquetry”
Laying of veneers of
different-coloured
woods onto the surface
of furniture.

46. “Crests & Initials”

47. “Lambrequin Motif”
Lambrequin or
Tasselled cloth

Fabrics transformed
into motifs

48. Furnitures

49. French Baroque Furnitures
For the court of Louis XIV in France

Created by André Charles Boulle

Embellished with inlays made of combined
metals with gilded columnar legs

Tortoise shell and ebony designs

50. “Absolom Roche”

51. “Belle de Fleur”
Made of intricately hand carved
mahogany finished in majestic gold
leaf.

52. “Boule Console Table 1701”
Thin sheets of brass and
tortoise shell veneer on an oak
frame

53. “Boule Console Table 1701”

54. “Claudette Baroque Mirror”

55. “Queen Anne’s Revenge Chaise”

56. Italian Baroque Furnitures
Gilded wood, oak or walnut

Lion commodes

With “cassoni”

Florentine Console Tables

57. “Canova”

58. “Rhombus”

59. “Giove”

60. “Firenze”

61. English/British Baroque Furnitures
Walnut as the wood of choice

Pine and Ash; Ebony and Cane as base wood or
veneers

Chairs are still typically throne like

63. Resources

64. https://arthistory.knoji.com/a-brief-history-of-baroque-furniture/
http://www.ehow.com/info_10070157_colors-baroque-art.html
http://www.sevensedie.com/collection/26/baroque
http://www.furniturestyles.net/european/french/baroque.html
http://www.artble.com/artists