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Baroque (c. 1600 – 1750)
When the Catholic Church fought back against the Reformation, it did so with theater. Baroque architecture is movement carved into stone — twisted columns, swelling façades, ceilings that dissolve into painted heavens. Designed to overwhelm, persuade, and convert.

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