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Ukrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 during the Hetmanate
Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine during 1649?1775. It came into existence as a result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the alliance of the registered Cossacks with the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Sich and other segments of the Ukrainian populace....
 era, in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Ukrainian Baroque is distinct from the Western Europe
Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
an Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 in having more moderate ornamentation and simpler forms, and as such was considered more constructivist
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
. Many Ukrainian Baroque buildings
Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
 have been preserved, including several buildings in Kiev Pechersk Lavra
Kiev Pechersk Lavra

Kiev Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Monastery#Orthodox Christian monasteries in Kiev, Ukraine....
 and the Vydubychi Monastery
Vydubychi Monastery

Vydubychi Monastery is an historic monastery in the Ukraine capital Kiev.The monastery was established between 1070 and 1077 by Vsevolod Yaroslavich, son of Yaroslav the Wise....
 in Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
.

The best examples of Baroque painting are the church paintings in the Holy Trinity Church of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.






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Ukrainian Baroque or Cossack Baroque is an architectural style that emerged in Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 during the Hetmanate
Cossack Hetmanate

The Hetmanate or officially Viysko Zaporozke was a Cossack state in the central and north-eastern regions of Ukraine during 1649?1775. It came into existence as a result of the Khmelnytsky Uprising and the alliance of the registered Cossacks with the Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Sich and other segments of the Ukrainian populace....
 era, in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Ukrainian Baroque is distinct from the Western Europe
Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
an Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 in having more moderate ornamentation and simpler forms, and as such was considered more constructivist
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
. Many Ukrainian Baroque buildings
Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
 have been preserved, including several buildings in Kiev Pechersk Lavra
Kiev Pechersk Lavra

Kiev Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Monastery#Orthodox Christian monasteries in Kiev, Ukraine....
 and the Vydubychi Monastery
Vydubychi Monastery

Vydubychi Monastery is an historic monastery in the Ukraine capital Kiev.The monastery was established between 1070 and 1077 by Vsevolod Yaroslavich, son of Yaroslav the Wise....
 in Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
.

The best examples of Baroque painting are the church paintings in the Holy Trinity Church of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Rapid development in engraving techniques occurred during the Ukrainian Baroque period. Advances utilized a complex system of symbolism
Symbolism

Symbolism is the applied use of symbols: iconic representations that carry particular meanings.The term "symbolism" is limited to use in contrast to "representationalism"; defining the general directions of a linear spectrum - where in all symbolic concepts can be viewed in relation, and where changes in context may imply systemic changes...
, allegories, heraldic signs, and sumptuous ornamentation.

Certain features of the Ukrainian baroque, such as bud and pear-shaped domes
Onion dome

An onion dome is a type of unioform architectural dome seen across Eastern Europe and often associated with Russian Orthodox church Orthodox church es....
, were borrowed by the similar Naryshkin baroque
Naryshkin Baroque

Naryshkin Baroque, also called Moscow Baroque, or Muscovite Baroque, is the name given to a particular design of architecture and decoration which was fashionable in Moscow at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries....
 movement in 17th-18th century Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
.

See also

  • Ukrainian architecture
    Ukrainian architecture

    Ukrainian architecture is a term that describes the motives and styles that are found in structures built in modern Ukraine, and by Ukrainians worldwide....