query: architectural_style radcliffe camera
supports: Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity. James Gibbs (23 December 1682  5 August 1754) was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born in Scotland, he trained as an architect in Rome, and practised mainly in England. He is an important figure whose work spanned the transition between English Baroque architecture and a Georgian architecture heavily influenced by Andrea Palladio. Among his most important works are St Martin-in-the-Fields, in London, and the cylindrical, domed Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University. Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of HanoverGeorge I, George II, George III, and George IVwho reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830. The style was revived in the late 19th century in the United States as Colonial Revival architecture and in the early 20th century in Great Britain as Neo-Georgian architecture; in both it is also called Georgian Revival architecture. In America the term "Georgian" is generally used to describe all building from the period, regardless of style; in Britain it is generally restricted to buildings that are "architectural in intention", and have stylistic characteristics that are typical of the period, though that covers a wide range. 
  Characteristics.
  The style of Georgian buildings is very variable, but marked by a taste for symmetry and proportion based on the classical architecture of Greece and Rome, as revived in Renaissance architecture. Ornament is also normally in the classical tradition, but typically rather restrained, and sometimes almost completely absent on the exterior. The period brought the vocabulary of classical architecture to smaller and more modest buildings than had been the case before, replacing English vernacular architecture (or becoming the new vernacular style) for almost all new middle-class homes and public buildings by the end of the period. English Baroque is a term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). The Radcliffe Camera ( Camera , meaning `` room '' in Latin ; colloquially , `` Rad Cam '' or `` The Camera '' ) is a building of Oxford University , England , designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737 -- 1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library . It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian , north of St. Mary 's Church , and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east . The Library 's construction and maintenance was funded from the estate of John Radcliffe , a notable doctor , who left £ 40,000 upon his death in 1714 . According to the terms of his will , construction only began in 1737 , although the intervening period saw the complex purchase of the site . The exterior was complete in 1747 and the interior finished by 1748 , although the Library 's opening was delayed until 13 April 1749 . Upon completion , Francis Wise was appointed as its first librarian . Until 1810 , the Library housed books covering a wide range of subjects , but under Dr George Williams it narrowed its focus to the sciences . Williams brought the Library from a state of neglect up to date , although by 1850 the Radcliffe Library still lagged behind the Bodleian . It was at this point that Henry Wentworth Acland , then librarian , laid out plans for the Radcliffe Library building to merge with the University and the Library 's collection of books to be moved to the newly constructed Radcliffe Science Library , which were accepted by the Library 's trustees and the University . It was at this point that the building became known as the Radcliffe Camera , serving as a reading room for the Bodleian .
candidates: baroque colonial revival architecture english baroque georgian architecture georgian revival architecture renaissance architecture vernacular architecture
answer: english baroque