Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical Styles of Europe

Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries, when it was part of the Spanish Empire.

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe.

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

Rococo architecture, prevalent during the reign of Louis XV in France from 1715 to 1774, is an exceptionally ornamental and exuberant architectural style characterized by the use of rocaille motifs such as shells, curves, mascarons, arabesques, and other classical elements.

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580).

Churrigueresque (; Spanish: Churrigueresco), also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the late 17th century and was used until about 1750, marked by extreme,

The Empire style (French: style Empire [stil ɑ̃piʁ]) is an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism.

The Manueline (Portuguese: estilo manuelino, IPA: [ɨʃˈtilu mɐnweˈlinu]), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries.

The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze ( LOO-ee ka-TORZ, -⁠ kə-, French: [lwi katɔʁz] ), also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign.

Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 18-year reign of Louis XVI (1774-1792), just before the French Revolution.

Directoire style (French pronunciation: [diʁɛktwaʁ] ) was a period in the decorative arts, fashion, and especially furniture design in France concurrent with the Directory (November 2, 1795-November 10, 1799), the later part of the French Revolution.

Architecture terrible ([aʁ.ʃi.tɛk.tyʁ tɛ.ʁibl], lit. 'architecture which evokes terror') was an architectural style advocated by French architect Jacques-François Blondel in his nine-volume treatise Cours d'architecture (1771-77).

French Provincial architecture, also known as French Eclectic architecture, is a revivalist architectural style based on manor houses or chateaux homes which were built by French aristocrats beginning in the 1600s.

The Henry IV style was the predominant architectural idiom in France under the patronage of Henry IV (1589-1610).

Portuguese Plain Style architecture (Estilo Chão in Portuguese) refers to a 16th century Portuguese architectural style related to early Mannerism marked by austerity and sobriety of form.

The Louis XV style or Louis Quinze (, French: [lwi kɛ̃z]) is a style of architecture and decorative arts which appeared during the reign of Louis XV. From 1710 until about 1730, a period known as the Régence, it was largely an extension of the Louis XIV style of his great-grandfather and

The Pombaline style was a Portuguese architectural style of the 18th century, named after Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, the first Marquês de Pombal, who was instrumental in reconstructing Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755.

Russian Baroque is a term used to describe the Baroque artistic style that emerged in the Russian Tsardom and the Russian Empire during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Italian Baroque architecture refers to Baroque architecture in Italy.

The Henry II style was the chief artistic movement of the sixteenth century in France, part of Northern Mannerism.

The French Restoration style was predominantly Neoclassicism, though it also showed the beginnings of Romanticism in music and literature.

Refers to a style in Spanish and Spanish Colonial architecture and ornament in the 15th and 16th centuries.