Baroque In Britain: Waldemar Visits The Hawksmoor Churches & St Pauls Cathedral | Ep 3 

Yes, it is.

I can relate. I went to The Minneapolis College of Art & Design & had better art history taught in high school

I find his enthusiastic praise of the vulgar extravagances of the so-called Baroque style rather off-putting. In my art history at art school in England I often found texts where the renaissance was referred to as the "deplorable renaissance" and where the baroque was considered its degenerate form. To each his own, but quite frankly Baroque architecture either leaves me quite cold or else makes me shudder, and that's just the exteriors. It should have stayed in Italy. So many baroque buildings remind me of rather boring iced wedding cakes. The interiors are indeed very vulgar extravagances. I much prefer the English architecture, half-timbered, mixed materials, rather rambling, lacking in extravagant ornamentation, and of different styles that he disparages, and I love the cathedrals and churches that started life as Norman or Early English and had bits added onto them over the following several centuries. Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi called it the "British genius for compromise". In contrast, cathedrals on the Continent are very much of a piece, just one style. Gaudi's own buildings and park designs include many different bits, styles, and materials and they are endlessly interesting, surprising, creative, and fun.

A master indeed! Bravo Waldemar and my sincere thanks

@@anncoffey8375 I also appreciate simplicity but I have to admit that what people were capable of achieving is impressive and it seems that great cities should have great buildings.

@@terrianderson7088 Yes, I agree. Whether I like particular styles or not, I can always appreciate the workmanship and the durability of great historical buildings. We cannot match them today. Despite my preference for simplicity, I found the exterior and interior of Siena Cathedral overwhelmingly wonderful, but then it is Italian Romanesque Gothic and not baroque. Every square inch inside and out is decorated and patterned. If you're not familiar with it there is quite a good Geographical Care `Guide To the Siena Cathedral Complex' online. A particularly pleasant aspect of the cathedral is that the town of Siena is car-free - so no ugly, noisy, fumy traffic to spoil the view, and it hasn't been turned into a side show surrounded by tour buses as have some cathedrals in Europe. The buildings we construct today are built with machinery, technologies, and many materials that they lacked hundreds of years ago, which makes historic buildings all the more remarkable. My father, when admiring a fine old building in Britain, rightly commented that it had been built in the days when they built up to a standard instead of down to a price, as most modern buildings are.

when I studied Art History, I'd have loved to have had him for a Prof. ! He's a blast! He just worked with Nick Cave on a new album! Namaste

Ja die heeft mij wel overdonderd

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I Absolutely agree He has definitely opened my eyes and my heart.

That sentiment is expressed in a quite unsavoury way. Although I am a fan too.

the man is an opinionated, idiot, with less knowledge of history than a high school teacher. send him back to poland where he came from

@@TWOCOWS1 I like his films, and his personality just adds to it. He was born in Basingstoke, England, btw.

@@g-r-a-e-m-e- so? and that make a Januszczak an Englishman? even if it did, only a simpleton would believe a modern Englishman speaking on history

can't bare him, so opinionated. Much prefer James Fox

@@PadmeP haven't seen James. Perhaps my mind will be changed when I do.

Hed have a warm bed with me, anytime!

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@Kat Harper there are some documentaries on bbc iplayer too if your in the uk

That would be wonderful! In fact, I think a whole series on women painters/artists, especially the less well known would be phenomenal.

True! Phillip II was married to Mary Tudor, Catholic daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Besides the three other women he ended up marrying.

@@paigetomkinson1137 Dat klinkt niet So wunderfull ,wat een rare hobby 😳

@@joseffinat966 Overeengekomen.

Just scroll to the end of the video then press replay no need to pay 🤣😂🤣

minecraft.

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@@josephzammit8483 kan ik het op RU-vid vinden ? Don Bosco nooit van gehoord en mijn Engels is nog steeds een ramp

He was intelligent and classically educated; such a person can do anything, and do it well. He was hardly alone in the range of his accomplishments, nor even the most accomplished of his time. Look at the Perrault family, some time.

In some people its possible to be both. Classical architecture and beauty have a lot in common with the symmetry and harmony of math and geomtry. And much in nature.

@@pangaeuspress Your statement "intelligent and Classically educated, such a person can do anything and do it well" is, frankly, a ridiculous overstatement of the facts. Claude and Charles Perrault were indeed remarkable people. And Claude Perrault was a good, competent, unexciting Classical architect. Perrault could build the facade of the Louvre, and the church of Ste-Genieve. But the little church of St Stephen's, Walbrook, by Christopher Wren takes the knowledge of sophisticate mathematical theory, as applied to architecture, to another level entirely. The great long East facade of the Louvre is impressive. But nothing about it is inventive. It refers directly to certain Classical models which are easily recognisable, and it sets a convenient pattern for other buildings of its type. St Paul's facade, on the other hands, refers very loosely to a model set by Roman Baroque churches, but is an extraordinary new creation, which holds its own as an architectural work with other unique and exciting buildings like Karlskirche in Vienna, Redentore in Venice and San Carlo in Quatre Fontana. (I don't know that anybody has ever done a thorough analysis on just what it is that makes the west front of St Paul's so great.) Then we have the dome of St Paul's....Spanning the nave and the aisle, in the manner of a couple of very significant Medieval models. - the octagon at Ely, and the dome of Florence Cathedral. This is what I mean about Wren being able to draw upon the lessons of the past. He didn't get this from Vitruvius. He got it from intelligent observation, which his education in the Classics was not going to give him. Should I mention here the spires of London. I don't know how many he designed. I just know that his "variations on a theme" left us with a most extraordinary and exciting enrichment of the City of London. You can say that Wren was "nor even the most accomplished of his time". but you will have to come up with an architect more inventive that Perrault as a possible contender.

@@granthurlburt4062 , Let me correct you- Classical architecture .... has EVERYTHING in common with the symmetry and harmony of maths and geometry.

You were lucky. I visited the UK in the summer of 1987. It only rained twice during that June: Once for 16 days and the other time for 14 days.

I'd like to point out the fact why we call the philosophers Kant and Nietzsche as German when their birth rites were Prussian during the time the Prussian state hadn't amalgamated into Bismarck's Germany

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@Thomas Bell Lick that corporate boot; boy, shills like you are perfect grist for the mill.

? ? Welke serie was dat ?

Is it here on RU-vid?! That would be great.

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no its not...Venice is amazing. Santa Maria Del Fiore is amazing. Pantheon is amazing. Colosseum is amazing. Villa D'este is amazing...

Opinion only!

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What art is there to collect?

Queen Elizabeth II has a collection of Da Vinci's drawings.

I quite agree, having lived in Deptford many decades ago. Si Pauls Deptford is magnificent. I've always thought Wren a bit of a dull dog. A bit like Norman Foster now, he offends no one, safe, slightly progressive but uninspiring. (Hence his success!).