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17: 165: 127: 188: 146: 210: 101:, decorated with some of the more ornate Baroque motifs previously found only on mainland Europe. It often featured a low dome, a once complex architectural feat rendered less difficult through the use of iron and reinforced concrete. 164: 47:, which grew to its greatest popularity in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth century. As the style evolved from its origins, it acquired a mix of European styles, most notably the 93:
Second Empire became popular in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, where it emerged as a fusion of the architecture of the classical Renaissance exemplified by
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The style is particularly prominent in Paris and Vienna, both of which were heavily redeveloped in the late 19th century. Rome also saw a huge expansion after the
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The Second Empire style quickly spread throughout Europe and evolved as a loose form of
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and completed in 1888, is a prime example of the Second Empire style
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Dean, Ptolemy; Architectural Britain. P297. The National Trust.
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roofs and low, square based domes. It derived its name from the
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Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
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scale, although the execution was rather more economical.
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Palais Garnier
Neo-Renaissance
Neo-Baroque
Second Empire architecture
architectural style
Renaissance
Baroque
mansard
Second French Empire
Napoleon III
Baroque Revival architecture
Risorgimento
Bank of Italy
Gaetano Koch
Christopher Wren
John Vanbrugh
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
Edwin Alfred Rickards
Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards
Piranesian
HĂ´tel de Paris Monte-Carlo, Monaco, was completed in 1868
HĂ´tel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Monaco
Brussels Stock Exchange was designed by Léon Suys and built between 1868–73
Brussels Stock Exchange
LĂ©on Suys
Burgtheater, Vienna, designed by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer and completed in 1888, is a prime example of the Second Empire style
Burgtheater
Gottfried Semper

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