The Baroque
The Rome of the Counter-Reformation became the capital of the Baroque. Bernini and Borromini made walls undulate and light fall from hidden sources, and Turin and Sicily developed variants of their own.
Il Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits, became the model for churches all over the world. Bernini framed St Peter’s Square with two colonnades that open like arms, and Borromini built San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza on a complex geometry.
In Turin Guarino Guarini built domes of intersecting arches, and after the earthquake of 1693 the towns of south-eastern Sicily, such as Noto, were rebuilt in a rich late Baroque.