82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession
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The Church of St. John the Baptist
The church is a greek kind of greek cross plan this sort of centralised plan which is both a sort of early christian illusion to and also from the renaissance. There are two piers with big step i think one is like an emperor and one is the saint set leopold was another emperor both done up in kind of tutonic father figure styles um on kind of cool reimagining of ancient Germanic sort of chairs and settings. It's not that but we can see he's definitely moving pretty decisively away from playing with the nouveau shapes but towards something more geometric crisper.
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