Guess the Architecture

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (According to Google image search ).

In my defence, I first thought of Amsterdam railway station, but it has clocks & suchlike.

I went to visit the Rijksmuseum last October, but only saw it in this state.

.... This older view is more like the OP image.

... and here's a snap I took of the station:

I have excreted a small blurb for you to ponder....unashamedly plagiarized from around the web (from Wikipedia, styles of architecture, Baroque, Renaissance, Gothic)...

The style of architecture is a combination here of Gothic and renaissance...

Gothic architecture is a style developed in northern France

that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries;

characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by

vaulting and pointed arches... It evolved from

Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.

Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great

cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many

castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less

prominent extent, private dwellings.

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early

15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a

conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and

Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture

followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture.

Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its

innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The

style was carried to France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of

Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact.

Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the

regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of classical

antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples

remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as

the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aedicules

(ie;little houses)replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular

profiles of medieval buildings.

As in Classical architecture, in Gothic architecture, too, an aedicule or

tabernacle frame is a structural framing device that gives importance to its

contents, whether an inscribed plaque, a cult object, a bust or the like, by

assuming the tectonic vocabulary of a little building that sets it apart from

the wall against which it is placed. A tabernacle frame on a wall serves

similar hieratic functions as a free-standing, three-dimensional architectural

baldaquin or a ciborium over an altar.

In ecclesiastical architecture, a ciborium is a canopy or covering supported

by columns, freestanding in the sanctuary, that stands over and covers the

altar in a basilica or other church. It may also be known by the more general

term of baldachin, though ciborium is often considered more correct for

examples in churches...

In order, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical('The

age of enlightenment')....

Did it get soggy when you excreted it?

Bazzer

SolarEagle hit the nail on the head with his post!

Tune in later this week for something a little bit different