| This design became basic to Baroque architecture. The two distinctive scroll buttresses ( taken from Michelangelo) create a novel device that helps make the transition to the large pediment which retains the classic proportions of Renaissance architecture ( the height equals the width). |
| Facade of II Gesu |
| Who-
Giacomo Della Porta What- Concrete When- 1575-84 Where-Rome, Italy Why- The mother church of the Jesuits. The Architectural embodiment of the spirit of the Counter Reformation |
  
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