Baroque 1600 1750 Peaked in Italy after 1600
Baroque ► 1600 – 1750. ►Peaked in Italy after 1600, but moved to Spain, Latin America, Poland, etc. ► From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape. ” ► Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance. ► The more dramatic, the better!
Baroque Style of Art & Architecture ► Dramatic, emotional to appeal to common people. ► Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark. ► Counter-Reformation art. ► Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed. ► Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions. ► Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.
Baroque ► Inspired by the decisions of The Council of Trent ►Renaissance art inspires contemplation, and Baroque art inspired action ►When the Baroque style went north, it merged with Reformation theology, which took the dramatic flare out and ended up with “controlled elegance”
Santa Susanna by Carlo Maderno 1597
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Gialorenzo Bernini
Church of Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany
“The Assumption of the Virgin Mary” Egid Quirim Asam, 1692 -1750
Altar of Mercy, Germany, 1764
“The Calling of Saint Matthew” Caravaggio, 1599
“St. Francis in Ecstasy” Caravaggio, 1595
“The Flagellation of Christ” by Caravaggio
“David and Goliath” by Caravaggio
“Salome with the Head of the Baptist” by Caravaggio
“The Cardsharps” Caravaggio, 1595
“The Dead Christ Mourned” Annibale Carracci, 1603
“Lucretia” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1620
“The Virgin Appearing to St. Hyacinthe” Lodovico Carracci 1594
“Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob” Diego Velazquez, 1630
“Christ on the Cross” Diego Velazquez, 1632
“Las Meninas” Diego Velazquez 1656
“St. Francis in Meditation” Francisco de Zurbaran
“St. Bonaventure on His Deathbed” Francisco de Zurbaran, 1629
“St. George and the Dragon” by Peter Paul Reubens 1606 -07
“The Elevation of the Cross” by Peter Paul Reubens 1610 -11
“The Lamentation” by Peter Paul Reubens 1609 -11
“Christ Risen” by Peter Paul Reubens 1616
“Battle of the Amazons” Peter Paul Reubens
“A Village Fête” Peter Paul Reubens
“The Garden of Love” Peter Paul Reubens, 1630 -32
“The Blinding of Samson” Rembrandt
“Philosopher in Meditation” Rembrandt, 1632
“Lady Governors of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem” Frans Hals
“Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer
“David” by Gianlorenzo Bernini
“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila” by Gianlorenzo Bernini 1647 -52
“The Holy Family on the Steps” Nicolas Poussin
“Joseph the Carpenter” Georges La Tour
“A Bust of Louis XIV” by Bernini
“Louis XVI” Hyacinthe Rigauld
“A Bust of Cardinal Richelieu” by Bernini
![“Cardinal Richelieu” Philippe de Champaigne [1602 -1674]](http://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image_h/188e308a77d3c87a178a3b7479185585/image-48.jpg "“Cardinal Richelieu” Philippe de Champaigne [1602 -1674]")
“Cardinal Richelieu” Philippe de Champaigne [1602 -1674]
Baroque Furniture
Baroque Furniture
A Baroque Room
Baroque Style of Music ►Epitomized by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 -1750), a Lutheran ►Very spiritual and overwhelming
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