If You Love Drama, You're Going to Lose It Over This Design Trend

通过华丽的装饰和奢华的细节，巴洛克标记architecture证明是“额外”绝对是一件好事。开始在晚16世纪的欧洲和蓬勃发展，直到18世纪，巴洛克艺术，音乐，建筑和设计都体现的丰富性和时代的动荡。

Though most famously tied to Italy (hello, Bernini), it also flourished in countries like England, France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain (and their former colonies), with some regional distinctions. Overall, the Baroque period arose out of the violence of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe, which speaks to the emotional motifs and interplay between bleak shadows and light in the structures themselves. That's also why most of the notable examples happen to be Catholic churches.

不管是什么目的，结果总是一样的：当你输入的巴洛克式建筑，你会肃然起敬通过它的纯粹的戏剧和美丽。著名的西班牙诗人路易斯·贡戈拉捕捉它完美的此节: "Wavelike is the breeze that flows/ With fine gold, in illusory elegance / Stirs the green leaves of dense poplars." Slightly ostentatious, packed with emotional intensity, and full of complex syntax and metaphors, there's just something so honest and expressive about the Baroque period that's worth channeling at home.

所以我们收集了巴洛克式的建筑壮举的例子用的定义特征和巴洛克风格的室内装潢的现代演绎一个分析，这样你可以学到如何把看带回家。他们不是在所有华而不实的，而是充满了old-school opulencewith a contemporary-cool twist, just in time for Leo season.

The Baroque Quality: Elongated Distortion

One way to communicate drama and opulence was through elongated scale, as displayed above. St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, features a ton of different architectural traditions, Baroque just being one of them. Many of the structures were repaired during the Baroque era after fires and earthquakes had damaged them.

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我们热爱这间卧室是如何发挥规模与比例，从杂志的地板上悠闲的堆栈和低到了地面便碰到了天花板高的四柱床之间的并列。它的身高和光洁度立即采集眼球。

The Baroque Quality: Curving Walls, Arches, and Domes

Because Baroque buildings feature complex, elaborate floor plans, there are often many interior columns, domes, and curved walls. There's a sense of movement, which is communicated through the physical curvature and motifs of undulation in every detail. The Austrian town of Salzburg is a prime illustration.

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This large arch gives the bedroom more dimension and an illusion of added privacy as well as an interesting game of shadow play between light and dark space. If you want to play up an arch or capture the Baroque sense of movement without any preexisting arches, opt for furniture and accent pieces with plenty of curves.

The Baroque Quality: Rich Decoration and Color

St. Andrews Church in Kiev, Ukraine, was designed by Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli in the mid-1700s, at the peak of the Baroque period. A bit more flamboyant in color than the other examples, this church displays the rich attention to detail and intricate designs that give Baroque buildings a distinctly and meticulously decorative facade.

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如同其它实施例中，高天花板借给自己大量显着高的窗帘和反射镜以及大规模的艺术品和照明。虽然我们可以立即吸引到天蓝色座椅或大胆的艺术墙，你永远不会运行的详细信息，在这个房间里来观赏。真正的荣耀在饰边的所有复杂的工艺彪炳。

The Baroque Quality: Lots and Lots of Gilt

Featuring incredibly tall ceilings, ornate balconies, undulating columns, repeating motifs, a surplus of regal lighting, and gilt, gilt, and more gilt, the New York Palace in Budapest is truly magnificent. Like many Baroque buildings, standing inside of it is an emotional experience as much as it is an aesthetic treat.

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With beautifully detailed gold trimmings, a statement-making antique gilt mirror, and tall ceilings, this space plays up its old-school roots in a subtle, tasteful way. We love how the thick abstract brush strokes simultaneously juxtapose and complement the Baroque gold details in a modern way.