ABSTRACT
The late Baroque style in English architecture lasted into the early eighteenth century with the work of Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and John Vanbrugh, whereas in other parts of Western Europe it came to an end earlier. Dominating the first half of seventeenth-century architecture in England, Inigo Jones had visited Italy and had been inspired by Vitruvius and Palladio, especially the latter's Four Books of Architecture. Originally used in the north of Italy in the sixteenth century, pastel was perfected in the eighteenth century by Baroque and Rococo artists and often used for portraits. In keeping with Christopher Wren's preference for centralized plans, the first design for Saint Paul's, proposed in 1670, was a Greek-cross plan, with the arms connected by curved walls rather than meeting at right angles, as in Italy. In England, where the elegant character of Rococo appears another trend can be found in the outright satires of William Hogarth.
