Architectural Stories - Arik Ginzburg , architect

19/07/2025

Baroque Architecture
Heavy massive forms. elegant proportions disappeared and buildings tended to become weightier until sometimes the forms almost crushed by the pressure . The grace and lightness of the Renaissance were gone. All forms became broader and heavier"*

*Michelangello, balustrade of the staircase to the Capitol.

"Renaissance and Baroque"/Heinrich Wolfflin

20/03/2025

The archenemy of the painterly is the isolation of the individual
form.
In order to create the illusion of movement the forms have to come together, interlace and fuse with one another. A painterly piece of furniture always need a an atmosphere of a Rococo commode cannot be placed just against just any wall;
The movement has to resound throughout. The peculiar attraction of uniformly rococo churches is that every altarpiece, every confessional is melted into a whole.

Landscape by Ruisdel

11/02/2025

This primarily applies to the silhouette .
Even the foreshortened view which swallows much of what is typical in a shape, is treated so that the silhouette still provides plenty of information …that is, it contains many forms.

The 16th Century has no problem with the intrinsically
unclear. The 17TH Century acknowledges it as as an art

Principles of Art History Wohlfflin

Peter Paul Rubens THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI

11/02/2025

01/01/2025

Peter Paul Rubens "The truely Baroque turn in the depiction of the Lamentation is to be found in rubens masterful work from 1614 , where the effect of the foreshortening of the corps is almost frightening" .

Wollflin / The Principles of Art' History"

29/12/2024

With individual elements coming apart of their own accord, a building such as the cancelleria is the architectonic counterpart to the structure of Titian BELLA.
Wollflin. The wholsomnes of baroque painting.

28/12/2024

About architecture in the Rennaisance.

The Cancelleria in Rome can be designated as the classical example of Renaissance unity in several parts. A stratification of three stories and a thoroughly self contained effect. No part could be altered without destroying the overall organism . (Wollflin on the principles of art history).

Palazzo Rucelai by Alberty. Rome

24/12/2024

The Cancelleria palace in Rome

22/12/2024

Receding layers

20/12/2024

The Odescalchi