... widely renewed the central areas with perhaps the most urbanistic addition (or, more properly, revision). But many other examples are found in other European towns (and in the Spanish Americas). Seventeenth century Baroque architects also made architecture a means of propagating faith in the state. During the baroque period new social and political systems resulted in the concentration of power in the hands ... curved lines for its effect of motion- it is spectacular and exuberant. It's appeal turned consciously from the witty intellectual qualities of the Mannerist art and architecture...

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