Architecture in France

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The Baroque Era
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Baroque Architecture

• Proportional but extravagant
• Fancy and pretty details
• A lot of columns, arches, domes and rounded
  shapes
• The scroll is especially baroque (like
  a cinnamon roll swirl)

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Architecture of Baroque

• Luxurious chateaux
• Decorative motifs of Italian Renaissance
• Love of and emphasis on decoration
• Graceful, harmonious

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Versailles

• Hunting camp for Louis XIII
• Louis XIV made it a castle
• 2000 windows - Private zoo with elephants
• 700 rooms - Chinese carousel
• 1250 fireplaces - Gondolas on canal
• 67 staircases
• 1800 acres of park

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Entrance to the Versailles Palace
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Hall of Mirrors-Versailles
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Bedchamber-Versailles
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The Cathedral of the Smolney Convent
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Francesco Borromini

• Rebellious, emotionally disturbed
• Berninis rival
• Concave convex surfaces created motion
• Suicide how?
• Fell on a sword

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Borromini
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BorrominiSan Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
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Sir Christopher WrenSt. Pauls Cathedral (London)
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Details Proportion
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Scroll
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Sculpture
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Gianlorenzo Bernini

•      More decorative than Renaissance
•    Painter, playwright, composer
•     Worked for Louis XIV
•     Considered greatest sculptor
• David in motion
• Created a bronze canopy/altar for St. Peters
•    -Taller than a 10 story building
•       -Columns with carved vines, leaves, bees

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Gianlorenzo Bernini

• Also an architect
• Fountains
• Palaces
• Churches
• Piazza in front of St. Peters Basilica

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Apollo Daphne
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Bernini altar
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BerniniTop of the altarat St. Peters
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BerniniEcstasy of St. Theresa
She believed she had been pierced by an angels
dart infusing her with divine love.
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Berninis David
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Paintings
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Baroque Art

• Ornate and decorative
• No clear central figure
• Distorted origin of light
• Religious and secular
• Funded by popes and monarchs
• Baroque is sometimes used negatively to mean
  gaudy and over-decorative.

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Caravaggio

• Intentionally sought to shock and offend
• evil genius and anti-Christ of painting
• Went from city to city fleeing the law
• Death of a Virgin causes a problem
• Daring innovator

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CaravaggioDeath of the Virgin
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Caravaggio Sacrifice
Caravaggio Sacrifice of Isaac
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Peter Paul Rubens

• Worked throughout Europe with many people
• Fat is beautiful, many nudes
• Painted suggestive rape scenes
• Portraits with sentimental looks
• Work is said to be vulgar and insincere
• Admired but disliked

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RubensThe Descent from the Cross
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RubensThe Three Graces
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Rembrandt van Rijn

• Light and dark color contrasts
• Paintings looked like photos
• Almost 100 self-portraits
• Early works detailed, physical action, many
  subjects
• Late works done quickly, psychological, single
  subjects

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RembrandtThe Nightwatch
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RembrandtSelf-portrait
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Jans Vermeer

• Indoor paintings as if you were there
• Subject is always holding something
• Use of indirect lighting
• Used texture to give depth

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VermeerLady writing letter with her maid
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VermeerWoman Sleeping
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William Hogarth

• English artist as a social critic
• Created the comic strip
• First political cartoonist
• Overcome Englands inferiority complex

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HogarthJohn Wilkes, Esquire
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BedlamHogarth
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El Greco Domenikos Theotokopoulos

• Emphasis on Counter-Reformation
• Mannerism
• Elongation of bodies
• Use of color intense unusual

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Madonna Child
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Holy Trinity
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Diego Velazquez

• Spanish master
• Lifelike portraits
• Natural poses , no props
• Very influential and loved

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Velazquez
Pope Innocent X Juan de Pareja
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VelazquezVenus at her mirror
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Velazquez, Las Meninas
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Chardrins Silver Goblet
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GentileschisJudith Beheading Holofernes
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Self Portrait