Baroque Churches Author:P. and C. Cannon-Brookes Baroque Churches provides in invaluable contribution to our understanding of this magnificent style. The authors begin b describing how Baroque developed in Rome in the 17th century, when a group of outstanding architects built a series of churches characterized by a powerful sense of dynamism and a feeling of tremendous visual richness. They ... more »then go on to explain how Baroque spread to northern Italy and later to Germany, Austria & Bohemia, where in the 18th century it met and mingled with the mainly decorative Rococo style to produce a dramatic and spectacular fusion of painting, sculpture & architecture.« less