BAROQUE Baroque the ornate age 1600 1750 Baroque
BAROQUE
Baroque: the ornate age (1600 -1750) �Baroque art succeeded in marrying the advanced techniques and grand scale of the Renaissance to the emotion, intensity, and drama of Mannerism, this making the Baroque era the most sumptuous and ornate in the history of art. �Spread from Rome to France, and then to the rest of Europe
�In Catholic countries like Flanders, religious art flourished, while in the Protestant lands of northern Europe , such as England Holland, religious imagery was forbidden. �As a result, paintings tended to be still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and scenes from daily life �The three famous Baroque artists: the painter Caravaggio, the sculptor Bernini, and the architect Borromini
Caravaggio(1571 -1610): the supernatural made real �“Down and dirty” style �Secularized religious art, making saints and miracles seem like ordinary people and everyday events �Advocated “direct painting” from nature
Caravaggio, “Death of the Virgin”, http: //allart. biz/up/photos/album/B-C/Caravaggio/michelangelo_caravaggio_26_death_of_the_virgin. jpg, downloaded on June 27, 2012
Watch the film on Caravaggio http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=XYs-VEQVckc (12 parts; approx. 120 minutes)
The first feminist painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 -1653) “Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes”
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598 -1610), an architect, painter, playwright, composer and theatre designer “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, ” 1645 -52, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Flemish Baroque Peter Paul Rubens (1577 -1640) �The southern Netherlands, called Flanders and later Belgium, remained Catholic after the reformation, which gave artists incentive to produce religious paintings �Rubens – a painter and a diplomat �Known for his religious paintings, his full-bodied, sensual nudes, and hunting pictures
Religious painting: Rubens “The Descent from the Cross”, c. 1612 Antwerp Cathedral
Rubens, “Marie Arrives at Marseilles”, 1622 -25, Louvre, Paris
A slide show of Peter Paul Rubens’ works (9 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=THs 1 Xgfro Ec
Dutch school Rembrandt (1606 -1669) �Introspective paintings �Extraordinary emotional depth �Known for his portraits and Biblical themes (his early works)
Rembrandt, “The Nightwatch”, 1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Rembrandt, “Self-Portrait”, 1660, MMA, NY
Caravaggio vs. Rembrandt by Andrew Graham-Dixon (8 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=eu. Kjvw 42 blw
Vermeer, “The Kitchenmaid”, c. 1658, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Vermeer, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, Mauritshuis Gallery, The Hague
Art works of Johannes Vermeer (5. 5 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=EXRZGz. Rw-4 M
English Baroque Hogarth (1697 -1764) “Breakfast Scene”, from Marriage a la Mode, c. 1745, NG, London
The Art of William Hogarth (6 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=w 7 Xv 9 l. Hezek
Gainsborough, “Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, c. 1785, NG, London Reynolds, “Jane, Countess of Harrington”, 1777, San Marino, CA How to tell them apart
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 -88) Joshua Reynolds (1723 -88) � Easy-going, � Hard-working, often overdue with commissions � Naïve, spontaneous � No intellectual pretensions or ambitions, loved nature, music � Solo act – did not use assistants � Casual poses without posturing � Natural setting, landscape background � Sitters in contemporary dress careful businessman, complete professional � Consummate gentleman/scholar � Well educated in classics, England’s first art theorist � Employed assistants and drapery painters � Aimed at “senatorial dignity” in portraits � Antique props: urns, pedestals, columns � Sitters in character as goddesses, saints
Spanish Baroque Velázquez (1599 -1660), Las Meninas”, 1656, Prado, Madrid
Slide show of Diego Velazquez’ works (4 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=B 95 AMm_Zg 54
French Baroque Georges de La Tour, “The Penitent Magdalen”, c. 1638 -43, MMA, NY
The National Geographic Mary Magdalen film (approx 50 minutes) http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=pb 17 Nb. Na. UU 8
Rococo �Rococo was born in Paris, where it coincided with the reign of Louis XV (1723 -74) �Rococo was primarily a form of interior decoration, the name deriving from the “rocaille” motif of shellwork and pebbles ornamenting grottoes and fountains �Curvilinear, delicate ornamentation
Baroque Wren, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1675 -1712, London Rococo Gaudi, Casa Mila, 1907, Barcelona Discuss the differences
Rococo art �Mood �Playful, � Interior energy �Gilded woodwork, painted panels, enormous wall mirrors �Sinuous S- and C-curves, ribbonlike scrolls �Light, graceful, delicate �White, silver, gold, light pinks, blues, greens décor �Shapes �Style �Colors superficial, alive with
Who Were The Old Masters? Bellini, Bosch, Botticelli, Bruegel, Canaletto, Caravaggio, Carracci, Claude, Correggio, Durer, El Greco, Giorgione, Hals, Holbein, La Tour, Leonardo, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Reni, Rubens, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Van Dyck, Van Eyck, Velazquez, Vermeer, Veronese, Zurbaran
REFERENCES �Honour, Hugh and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History. Revised 7 th ed. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2010. Print �Strickland, Carol. The Annotated Mona Lisa. A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post. Modern. Kansas City: Andrews Mc. Meel Publishing, LLC, 2007. Print
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