Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Rome Church
While many other medieval churches in Rome have been given Baroque makeovers that cover Gothic structures, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic church building in Rome.
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Santa Maria Maggiore Rome: Basilica
The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ‘Basilica of Saint Mary Major’, is a Papal major basilica and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy, from which size it receives the appellation “major”.
Santa Maria di Vittorio Rome: Carlo Maderna
The church is the only structure designed and completed by the early Baroque architect Carlo Maderno, though the interior suffered a fire in 1833 and required restoration.
Santa Maria della Pace Rome Building
Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, northeast of Piazza Navona. Historic Roman church building in the centre of the city (Campus Martius), including the beautiful Bramante Cloister.
Santa Maria degli Angeli Roma, Building
St Mary of the Angels Rome. Location: Piazza della Republicca, northeast Rome, part created from Diocletian Baths, complex history/dates. Involvement of Michelangelo and Vanvitelli.
Santa Maria in Cosmedin Rome – Architecture
In the portico of the church, on the north side, can be found La Bocca della Verità, an ancient sculpture thought to be a drain covering.
Sant Andrea di Valle Rome, St Andrews Church
A church was initially planned when Donna Costanza Piccolomini d’Aragona, duchess of Amalfi and descendant of the family of Pope Pius II, bequeathed her palace and the adjacent church of San Sebastiano in central Rome to the Theatine order for construction of a new church.
Amsterdam churches architecture: buildings
Westerkerk (English: Western Church) is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant church in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is next to Amsterdam’s Jordaan district, on the bank of the Prinsengracht canal.
Sant Andrea al Quirinale Rome – Bernini Church
The Church of Saint Andrew’s at the Quirinal (Italian: Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Latin: S. Andreae in Quirinali) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built for the Jesuit seminary on the Quirinal Hill.
Sant’ Agostino Rome, Saint Augustines Church
The construction the church was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Cardinal Camerlengo (1477-1483).
Grundtvig Church Copenhagen: Kirke Photos
This monumental church is referred to in modern terms as a gothic cathedral. Master builder and architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen Klint died before the church was finished. The task was entrusted to his son architect and designer Kaare Klint, who completed the building of the church in 1940.
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Rome by Borromini
Beatufiul baroque church famous for its complex interior domes and also for its flowing facade. It features in many histories of World Architecture.
San Carlo ai Catinari Rome Building
This Rome church, also called Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari (“Saints Blaise and Charles in Catinari”) is an early-Baroque style church building. It is located on Piazza Benedetto Cairoli.
Reeso Kirke Sjælland, Danish Building Photos
Reeso Kirke, Danish church building photos – historic Danish architecture on Sjælland, Denmark: traditional kro, Dansk arkitektur
Kalundborg Kirke, Danish Building Photos
The Church of Our Lady is a historical building at Kalundborg in northwestern Zealand, Denmark. It is said to be Denmark’s most important contribution to architecture during the Middle Ages.
Church of the Holy Cross Building, Denmark
The church of the holy cross was conceived as part of the landscape around Jyllinge. With its glass façade facing the fjord and a “fishing net” dividing the space of the church, the design clearly takes the history of the place seriously
Hatlehol Church Ålesund – Norway Building
Design Team for this Norwegian competition: Italian architects baukuh with Paul Laurentius Vaksvik Koefoed, Alessandro Perotta, Giuseppe Tortarolo.