Baroque World

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Baroque World
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New Spirit

• 1600s
• Roman Catholic Church
• Counter-Reformation
• Baroque

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Baroque

• French and Portuguese roots
• Affect all of Europe
• Cultural achievement
• Music
• Art
• Architecture
• Variety

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General Characteristics

• Strong emotional statements
• Psychology of Exploration
• Invention of new and daring techniques

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Baroque Examples
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Visual Arts
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Michelangelo Merisi, or Carravaggio (1573-1610)

• Controversial in own lifetime
• Drastically different style

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Examples
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The Calling of St. Matthew, 1597-1603
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Detail
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Artemisia Gentileschi

• 1597-1651
• 1612 Tassi Trial
• Great renown in her own lifetime
• Dialog with artists of the day

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Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, c.1620
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Comparison
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Sculpture and Architecture
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Bernini, St. Teresa in Ecstasy, 1645-52
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Detail
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Baroque in France
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Académie des Beaux Arts

• 1st exhibition 1667
• Standards and values
• Prizes offered

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Nicolas Poussin

• C.1594-1665
• Reject Caravaggios style
• Work was a protest
• Nostalgia in art

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Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c.1630
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Comparison
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Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)

• Popular respected
• Louis XIV, 1701
• Parody?
• Extravagant lifestyle
• Baroque ideal in France

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Palace of Versailles

• Famous palace of the French kings
• Chief architects
• Louis Le Vau
• François d'Orbay
• Architecture with an agenda

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Versailles
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Sun King
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Hall of Mirrors
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Gardens
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Spanish Baroque
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El Greco

• 1541-1614
• Domeniko Theotokopoulos
• Contrast in work

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Diego Velázquez

• (1599-1660)
• Combines elements of French Italian Baroque
• Subject matter is diverse

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Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656
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Baroque Art in Northern Europe
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Peter Paul Rubens

• 1577-1640
• Universal painter
• Active
• Contented personal life

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Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus,
c.1618
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Vermeer

• (1632-1675)
• Art forgotten until 19th century
• Inner depth of feeling prominent
• Details

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A Lady Drinking and a Gentleman
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Details
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Rembrandt van Rijin

• 1606-1666
• 1642 artistic turning point
• Famous for self portraits
• Biblical subjects at end of life

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The Night Watchmen
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Self Portraits
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Music
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Key Points

• Familiarity wide appeal
• Pleasure for listener
• Flexibility of style

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Opera

• Universal appeal
• Starts in Florence
• Conceived intellectually
• Camerata

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Opera

• Universal appeal
• Starts in Florence
• Conceived intellectually
• Camerata

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Euridice

• Earliest extant opera
• Jacopo Peri
• Performed at the wedding of Henry IV Marie de
  Medici
• Based on a classical myth

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Claudio Monteverdi

• 1567-1643
• LOrfero
• 1st popular opera
• Sets the standard for later operas

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Growth of the Opera

• Italy primary but will spread throughout Europe
• Melodrama Sensation
• Lavish spectacles
• Arias, Oratorio, Sonata

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Growth of the Opera

• Italy primary but will spread throughout Europe
• Melodrama Sensation
• Lavish spectacles
• Arias, Oratorio, Sonata

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George Frederick Handel

• 1685-1759
• Messiah (1742)

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Johann Sebastian Bach

• 1685-1750
• Devout Lutheran
• Intellectual and spiritual
• Large quantity of music left behind
• Virtually unknown in his own lifetime

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Johann Sebastian Bach

• 1685-1750
• Devout Lutheran
• Intellectual and spiritual
• Large quantity of music left behind
• Virtually unknown in his own lifetime

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Literature in the Baroque Period
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Miguel de Cervantes

• 1547-1616
• Don Quixote
• 1605
• First modern novel
• Comic satire

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King James Bible

• 1611
• Biblical Style
• Hugely influential

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Philosophy Science in the Baroque Period
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Galileo Galilee

• 1564-1642
• Changed the world in 2 ways
• Proved Copernicus right
• Founder of modern physics

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René Descartes

• 1596-1650
• Father of Modern Philosophy
• Discourse on Methods (1637)
• Meditations (1641)

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Thomas Hobbes

• 1588-1679
• Different thinker
• Politics rather than philosophy
• Leviathan
• Shocks everyone

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John Locke

• 1632-1704
• Paves way for Enlightenment
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Blank slate