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Renaissance & Baroque

Two styles, one trajectory: from the calm geometry of 15th-century Florence to the swirling theater of 17th-century Rome. Renaissance buildings restore order; Baroque buildings break it on purpose. Together they define how Europe imagined power and the sacred for almost four centuries.

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