Famous Rococo Buildings

Amalienborg serves as the Danish royal family's winter home, sitting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Four matching classical palace facades feature rococo interiors around an octagonal courtyard. A monumental equestrian statue of Amalienborg's founder, King Frederick V, stands in the square. Amalienborg sits three meters high. Four noble families first built Amalienborg. Christiansborg Palace burned on February 26, 1794, so the royal family bought the palaces and moved in. Various kings and their families have lived there over the years.

The Amalienburg is an elaborate hunting lodge in the grounds of Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, southern Germany. François de Cuvilliés built it between 1734 and 1739 in Rococo style for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII and his wife, Maria Amalia of Austria.

St. Johann Nepomuk, known as the Asam Church, is a church in Munich, southern Germany. Egid Quirin Asam and Cosmas Damian Asam built it privately from 1733 to 1746. Citizens resisted, forcing the brothers to make the church public. This church represents one of the main buildings of the southern German Late Baroque.

The Branicki Palace is an 18th-century mansion belonging to a magnate in Warsaw, Poland. It sits at the junction of Podwale and Miodowa Streets.

The Brühl Palace, also called Sandomierski Palace, stands at Piłsudski Square. It was one of the largest palaces and a fine example of rococo architecture in pre-World War II Warsaw.

The Catherine Palace is a Rococo palace located in Tsarskoye Selo, 25 km southeast of St. Petersburg, Russia. The Russian tsars used it as their summer residence.

Charlottenburg Palace is the largest palace in Berlin, Germany. It is the only royal residence in the city dating to the Hohenzollern family. The palace occupies the Charlottenburg district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough. The Hohenzollern family built it at the end of the 17th century and expanded it during the 18th century. Much exotic decoration in baroque and rococo styles fills the interior. The palace has a large formal garden with woodland behind it, including a belvedere, a mausoleum, a theatre, and a pavilion. During the Second World War, the

Christian's Church is a grand Rococo church in Copenhagen's Christianshavn district, Denmark. Nicolai Eigtved designed it, building it from 1754 to 1759. The German community built this church for their large German population in Christianshavn. It served that purpose until the nineteenth century ended. Now, it functions as the regular parish church for Christian's Parish within the Danish National Church. The name honors King Christian IV, who started the Christianshavn district in 1611.

The Copper-Roof Palace is an 18th-century palace in Warsaw, Poland. Its odd name comes from its copper roof, rare in the first half of the 18th century. Since 1989, the palace belongs to the Royal Castle Museum. The palace touches Warsaw's Royal Castle. It sits down a slope from the Castle Square and Old Town. A 17th-century lodge remains beneath the palace.

The Cuvilliés Theatre, also called the Old Residence Theatre, was the former court theatre of the Residenz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

The Czapski Palace, also named the Krasiński, Sieniawski, or Raczyński Palace, stands in central Warsaw at 5 Krakowskie Przedmieście. It is one of Poland's finest examples of rococo architecture. The building sits across from the University of Warsaw. Famous figures lived there, including artist Zygmunt Vogel, composer Frédéric Chopin, and poets Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid. The Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts now occupies the palace.

Dolmabahçe Palace sits in Istanbul, Turkey, in the Beşiktaş district on the European coastline of the Bosphorus strait. It served as the main administrative center for the Ottoman Empire from 1856 to 1922, except for a 22-year period when Yıldız Palace was used.

Esterháza is a palace in Fertőd, Hungary, built by Prince Nikolaus Esterházy. Some call it the "Hungarian Versailles." It is Hungary's largest Rococo building.

Frederiksdal is a country house situated on Furesø Lake north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Holnstein Palace is an historic building in southern Germany, Munich. The Archbishop of Munich and Freising resided there from 1818.

The House of the Good Shepherd is a narrow, Rococo-style building in Bratislava, Slovakia. It sits in the Old Town below Bratislava Castle. Matej Hollrigl, a notable Bratislava master-mason, built the townhouse between 1760 and 1765 for a local merchant. The lower part served commerce; the upper part housed living quarters. This building retains its original state better than others near Bratislava Castle, mostly because much of the Jewish quarter was torn down in the 20th century. Today, the house holds the Museum of Clocks.

Linderhof Palace is a Schloss in Germany, southwest Bavaria near Ettal Abbey. It is the smallest of the three palaces King Ludwig II of Bavaria built, and it is the only one he saw finished.

Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany. For part of its history, Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire, acting like a nearly independent state. When the imperial abbey dissolved in 1802, it covered 266 square kilometers and had about 10,000 subjects.

The Palace of the Four Winds, also called the Tepper Palace, is a rococo palace in Warsaw, located at ulica Długa 38/40.

The Palazzo Pianetti, or Pianetti Tesei, is a Rococo palace in Jesi, Italy. The town now owns the palace and its adjacent building, which functions as a museum and exhibition site. The palace, built in 1730, follows designs by Cardolo Maria Pianetti. Elaborate interior decorations use stucco and paint to show various subjects and cycles. These include frescoes on the Aeneid by Placido Lazzarini, and the second-floor stanza features decoration by the Florentine Bandinelli.

Potocki Palace is a large baroque palace in Warsaw, situated at Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 15, directly across from the Presidential Palace. The Denhoff family built it; the Potocki family took over at the end of the 18th century.

The Regent Theatre occupies 2,162 seats in Melbourne's East End Theatre District, Australia. The National Trust of Australia lists it, and it is on the Victorian Heritage Register.

The Royal Fort House is a historic house in Tyndalls Park, Bristol. This building now holds the University of Bristol's Institute for Advanced Studies, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, and the Cabot Institute.

The Royal Theatre is an opera house and concert hall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. William D’Oyly Hamilton Rochfort and Eben W. Sankey designed it in 1912. Rochfort worked as an architect in Victoria from 1908 until he left for the war in 1914. Opened in 1913, the theatre operated as cinema, opera, and concerts. Canada designated the theatre a National Historic Site in 1987. Today, the theatre holds 1,434 people and stages concerts with the Victoria Symphony and the Victoria Philharmonic Choir.

Sanssouci Palace was Frederick the Great, King of Prussia's, former summer palace in Potsdam, near Berlin. Many consider it a German rival to Versailles. Sanssouci uses a smaller, more intimate Rococo style than its French Baroque counterpart, but it features many temples and follies in the park. Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff designed and built the palace between 1745 and 1747 for King Frederick's private place to relax from the Berlin court's ceremony. The palace's name emphasizes

Sapieha Palace is one of the palaces in Warsaw New Town district, Warsaw, Poland. The powerful Sapieha family started it and gave the building its name. It currently houses the Environmental Protection School Complex.

Schönbrunn Palace, a former imperial summer residence, sits in Vienna, Austria. This 1,441-room Baroque palace remains one of the country's most important architectural, cultural, and historical monuments. Since the mid-1950s, it has served as a major tourist attraction. The palace and its huge gardens cover more than 300 years, showing the changing tastes, interests, and goals of the Habsburg monarchs.

Shea's Performing Arts Center hosts touring Broadway musicals and special events in Buffalo, New York. They called it Shea's Buffalo before opening in 1926 to show silent movies. Construction took one year for the entire theater. Shea's features one of the few theater organs in the US still working in the theater it was designed for.

The Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, served as the official residence for Russian monarchs from 1732 to 1917. It sits between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square, next to where Peter the Great's original Winter Palace stood. Builders altered and rebuilt the present and fourth Winter Palace almost constantly from the late 1730s to 1837 after a fire severely damaged it. The 1917 storming, shown in Soviet paintings and Eisenstein's 1927 film October, became an icon of the Russian Revolution. The palace was constructed.

St. Michael in Berg am Laim is a church in Munich, southern Germany. Johann Michael Fischer built it from 1738 to 1751 as the Court Church for Prince Archbishop Clemens August of Cologne, a son of Bavarian Elector Maximinial Emmanuel. Clemens August owned Berg am Laim as a manor. A Brotherhood of St. Michael the Archangel also served the church. The Catholic church is a main example of the Bavarian rococo period.

The St. James Theatre is a stage theater in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city. New Zealand theatre designer Henry Eli White designed the present theater in 1912. The theater faces Courtenay Place, Wellington's main entertainment street, opposite the Reading Cinema complex. The building is number 83. The New Zealand Historic Places Trust classifies the building as a "Category I" historic place.

St. Martin's Church is a church in Warsaw, Poland. It sits on ulica Piwna in the Polish capital's Old Town.

Stiftsgården is the royal residence in Trondheim, Norway. It sits centrally on the city’s main street, Munkegaten. Covering 4000 m² across 140 rooms, it may be the largest wooden building in Northern Europe. Royals and their guests have used it since 1800.

The Theatine Church of St. Cajetan exists in Munich, southern Germany. Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, founded this Catholic church from 1663 to 1690. They built it to thank God for the birth of Prince Max Emanuel, the heir to the Bavarian crown, in 1662. Italian architect Agostino Barelli designed the church in Italian high-Baroque style, taking inspiration from Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome. Agostino Barelli was followed by Enrico Zuccalli, who added two 66-meter towers, originally unplanned. Zuccalli then finished the 71-meter dome in 1690.

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian: Ца́рское Село́ ("Tsar's Village"), is a former Russian residence. The imperial family and visiting nobility lived there. It sits 26 kilometers (16 mi) south of St. Petersburg. Now, it is part of Pushkin and the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. A Swedish noble owned the estate in the 17th century. Max Vasmer got the name from the Finnish word for island, "saari".

The Würzburg Residence is a palace located in Würzburg, Lower Franconia. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, representatives of the Austrian/South German Baroque, helped build the palace. Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand, followers of the French Style, also participated. Balthasar Neumann, the architect of the Bishop of Würzburg's court, acted as the main architect for the Residenz. The Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn, and his brother Friedrich Carl von Schönborn commissioned the Residenz in 1720, finishing construction in 1744. Venetian painter G

Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, built the Załuski Library in Warsaw from 1747 to 1795. Both men were Roman Catholic bishops. This library became the first Polish public library. It was the largest library in Poland and one of the first public libraries in Europe. After the Kościuszko Uprising, Russian troops took the library's books under orders from Czarina Catherine II. They moved the collection to her personal collection at Saint Petersburg. A year later, this collection became the start of the Imperial Public Library.