Each level is entirely its own: a Gilded Age-esque main floor with hand-painted walls, a lower level heavily influenced by Asian architecture, and a Baroque-inspired basement with hand-carved ...

and rejecting the frills of rococo and baroque architecture. He designed The British Museum, completed in the 1850s, which had a floor area of 600,000 square feet in four wings arranged around an ...

Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation, an effort by the Catholic Church to respond to the rising challenge of Protestantism across Europe. Church leaders used ...