Baroque Architecture

Baroque Architecture, a highly elaborate engagement with aesthetic infinity, was an influential style in Europe from the early seventeenth century until the mid-eighteenth century. Eli Maor argues that its round lines, gilded frames, bright colors, and almost ostentatious designs were sparked by the Copernican Revolution, which freed humans from religious dogma and opened them to the cosmos on one side, and the advent of Infinitesimal Calculus on the other, which formalized the incredibly small. And yet Baroque patterning was not without its downsides. Had Western horror infiniti by replaced by a horror vacui, a fear of empty space?