Baroque Revival Architecture

Baroque Revival, also called Neo-Baroque, and known in France as Second Empire architecture and in Germany as Wilhelminism, was an architectural style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that reused the forms and sculptural richness of the original Baroque period without belonging to it. Baroque forms were a core part of the curriculum at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the leading school of architecture for much of the nineteenth century, and through it the style shaped Beaux-Arts architecture internationally. In Britain and France the style reflected imperial confidence, while in the newly unified states of Germany and Italy it expressed pride in national power; built examples of the style span roughly from the Dolmabahce Palace in the 1840s to the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in the twentieth century.