The Ecclesiastical Rococo in Austria, Bohemia, and Germany Italian Precedent Transformed
St. Charles Borromeus, Vienna, by J.B.Fischer von Erlach,
St. Charles Borromeus S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1565, by Andrea Palladio
Is it rococo or baroque? Architecture in the Austro-Hungarian empire after the Thirty Years’ War often exhibited the qualities of “Machtkunst.”
St. Nicholas on the Small Side, Prague (Bohemia) designed by Christoph Dientzenhofer, dome completed by Killian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
Is it rococo or baroque?
Jesuit Church of St. Nicholas on the Small Side, Prague Church of Il Gesu, Rome
The curvilinearity of the illusionistic paintings in combination with the actual curvilinear rhythms of the architecture create a kind of warpage of the space.
The Asam Brothers at Weltenburg and Rohr Religious Experience Evoked through Material
The Benedictine Abbey Church of Sts. Martin and George at Weltenburg (Bavaria) by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin Asam
The façade of the abbey church
Former Augustinian Abbey Church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Rohr (Bavaria) by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin Asam
The Pilgrimage Church of the Fourteen Saints (“Vierzehnheiligen”) (Bavaria) 1742ff by Balthasar Neumann