Baroque Art 1600 1750 Baroque Art in a
Baroque Art: 1600 -1750
Baroque Art in a Nutshell • Combined Renaissance style with Mannerism • Started in Italy • Spread to Belgium, Holland, England, Spain • Supported by popes and absolute monarchs • Dramatic, dynamic, and ornate • Most notable for expert use of light and shade • In Catholic countries was often religious • In Protestant countries was more mundane
A Description You’ll Never Forget “Baroque artists took Renaissance figures and subjects and set them spinning like tops. ”
Italian Baroque
Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, 1600
Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin, 1606
Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1598
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1630
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1611
Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623
Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1647 -1652
“Audience” Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome 2005
Altar Rome 2005
Ceiling Rome 2005
Bernini St. Peter’s Square 1656 -1667
Bernini The Baldacchino (1624) St. Peter’s Basilica
Bernini The Throne of St. Peter (1657 -1666) St. Peter’s Basilica
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, 1665 -1676
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, 1665 -1676
The Baroque in Flanders
Peter Paul Rubens The Descent from the Cross, 1611 -1614
Peter Paul Rubens, Daniel in the Lion's Den, 1610
Peter Paul Rubens, Bacchus, 1638 -1640
Peter Paul Rubens, The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici, 1610
Peter Paul Rubens, Marie Arrives at Marseilles, 1622 -1626
Marie de Medici
Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I: King of England at the Hunt, 1635
Dutch Baroque (more classic)
Classicism: 1600 -1750 Classicists retained the ideals of the Renaissance and produced art that was much more restrained and ordered than their Baroque counterparts. This was the art of science.
Rembrandt Van Rijn, The Mill, 1650
Rembrandt, Jan Six, 1654
Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Cocq (The Nightwatch), 1642
Rembrandt, Six’s Bridge, 1645
1629 1660 Two of almost 100 Rembrandt self-portraits
Johannes Vermeer Girl With a Pearl Earring, 1665 -1666
Johannes Vermeer, The Milk Maid, 1658
Johannes Vermeer, Soldier & Woman Laughing
Johannes Vermeer, The Music Lesson
Vermeer, Concert, 1665
Spanish Baroque
Velasquez: Baroque But Not
Diego Velasquez, Philip IV, 1624
Velasquez, The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano, 1642
Velasquez, Las Meninas, 1656
Velasquez, Pope Innocent X, 1650
Velasquez, Los Barrachos
Velasquez, The Waterseller of Seville, 1623
French Baroque
Versailles The Hall of Mirrors Baroque “Avenue of Light”
French Classicism
Classicism: 1600 -1750 Classicists retained the ideals of the Renaissance and produced art that was much more restrained and ordered than their Baroque counterparts. This was the art of science.
Nicolas Poussin Burial of Phocion, 1648
England Baroque Period 1720 -1790 (we will view later)
Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 16751712
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