Is Baroque erotic?

So to answer this question I guess the most important thing to identify is what erotic architecture is and what quality makes the architecture erotic. For me I think that Erotic architecture is an architecture that plays with emotion of the user in the space. It can be something that attracts people. It could also be something that controls human’s action or surprise them. This quality can be brought up by the used of lighting, material, texture, repetition and scale. These are the thing that can create attraction and eroticism.

It is obvious that Baroque is erotic since my instructor is trying to make us prove that it is erotic but how? How baroque architecture is erotic? Baroque architecture happened in a period of Catholic reformation after the protestant reformation. So Catholic Church would do everything to make sure that their reformation will bring back their people and becomes great again. One way to do that is using the architecture to impress people and to bring people back in faith.

Baroque architecture is the deformation of Renaissance architecture. It has a lot of Elements of the building are manipulated. Comparing to Renaissance architecture, most of the building are simple and express the perfect geometric shapes. They have no ornaments. Unlike, Baroque architecture has a lot of ornaments in it with a lot of high value material such as gold and marble. Baroque architecture also plays with the quality of light. When light shine upon the material, it create the magnificent effects on lighting. The example of erotic Baroque architecture can be seen from the interior of Saint Andrea al Quirinal by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini brought the light from outside to inside of the building, which creates the erotic quality in to the church. He make a hole just right on top of the golden sculpture. When the light hits the sculpture, the sculpture shines. The light complement the sculpture. 

Interior of Saint Andrea al Quirinal by Bernini