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BAROQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE, (4214 words) |
 | The Roman Catholic church was a highly influential patron, and its Counter Reformation, a movement to combat the spread of Protestantism, employed emotional, realistic, and dramatic art as a means of propagating the faith. |
| Spanish architecture of the early baroque often continues the pattern of the muted severe style of the monastery-palace of El Escorial (1563–82) near Madrid, as in the Buen Retiro Palace (begun 1631, now destroyed) in Madrid. |
| Italian taste is equally present in architecture, as in the former Jesuit church of Saint Charles Borromeo (1615–21, now a museum), in Antwerp. |
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Architecture (5848 words) |
| Anglo-Saxon architecture Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in 1066. |
| Architecture of Quebec The architecture of Quebec is characterized by the juxtaposition of the old and the new and a wid... |
| Hoysala architecture The Hoysala architecture is the stone temple Halebid, and Somnathpur. |
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