Baroque Art

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Baroque Art
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• Baroque derived from barroco, heavily ornate,
  complex, strange, or in bad taste
• Rococo describes the ornate, fanciful, playful
  artwork
• Originally both negative words, but because of
  the high quality of the artwork are widely
  popular today.

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Features of Baroque Art

• Emotionalism
• Naturalism
• Classicism
• Chiaroscuro

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Gianlorenzo Bernini, David
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Role of the Viewer

• Expectation of active involvement
• Painted to draw viewers in
• Regarded as participants in the painting
• Emotional and intellectual involvement

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Caravaggio, Calling of Matthew
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Caravaggio, Entombment
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Painting

• Large, brightly lit
• Intensely observed forms, poses, and expresssions
• Strong effects of light and color
• Light from a single source outside of the painting

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Bernini Cornaro Chapel
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Pedro de Ribera, Portal of the Hospicio de San
Fernando, Madrid
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Architecture

• Wide naves
• Spectacular visual effects
• Street planning
• Leading from churches to famous plazas or squares
• Straight streets rather than medieval mazes

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Counter Reformation

• Church used art to
• encourage piety among the faithful
• Encourage heretics to return to the church
• Influence largest possible audience
• Doctrinally correct

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Bernini The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1647-52
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Rubens, The Raising of the Cross
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Flemish Baroque

• Under direct Spanish rule
• Remaining relatively Catholic
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Traveled all over Italy
• Studied works from Rome the Renaissance

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Captain Frans Banning Cocq
Mustering His Company
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Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting
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Vermeer Girl With a Pearl Earring, 1665
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Dutch Baroque

• Depictions of themselves
• Landscape, cities and domestic life
• Well educated
• Fascinated by history, mythology, the Bible,
  Scientific discovery, commercial expansion
• Common objects carried underlying meaning
• Paintings should be instructive as well as
  beautiful

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Watteau, The Signboard of Gersaint
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Rococo Style

• Pastel colors
• Delicately curving forms
• Dainty figures
• Light-hearted mood
• Getting closer to the mood of the
  Enlightenmentlighter mood in society
• Resistance to the grand style of before

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Roman Catholic Baroque Cathedrals
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St. Peters Cathedral, the Vatican, Rome
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From St. Peters Cathedral, Looking Out Over
St. Peters Square
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Baroque Cathedral in Czech Republic
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Baroque Cathedral, Vienna, Austria
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Bernini Piazza, Rome
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Versailles Palace
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Hall of Mirrors
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Hall of Mirrors
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Hall of Mirrors Chandeliers