Baroque
The Baroque is the art of seventeenth-century Rome: theatrical, emotional and built for the Counter-Reformation papacy. Bernini, Borromini and Caravaggio are its Roman names.
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Palazzo Barberini, begun after Urban VIII's election in 1623, is called the prototype of the Baroque palace because all three of its architects were the century's leading names.
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