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Baroque Baroque 1600-1750

Baroque Baroque 1600-1750. 1600 – the modern world

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Page 1: Baroque Baroque 1600-1750. 1600 – the modern world

BaroqueBaroque1600-1750

BaroqueBaroque1600-1750

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1600 – the

modern world

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The old way – a network of loyalties

CITY CITY

CITY

CITY

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The new way – THE STATE

CITY CITY

CITY

CITY

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This idea in art – Versailles

p. 278-79

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Baroque

• Change from church to absolute monarchy

• Exemplified by Louis 14th and Versailles

• an insult -“grotesque”- applied to design & architecture

• comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture

• Change from church to absolute monarchy

• Exemplified by Louis 14th and Versailles

• an insult -“grotesque”- applied to design & architecture

• comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture

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Baroque

• comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama

• also: complex, ornamented, convoluted

• comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama

• also: complex, ornamented, convoluted

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Artists

- El Greco - Spain

- Caravaggio - Italy

- Bernini – Italy

- Rubens - France

- Rembrant – Holland

- Vermeer - Holland

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El Greco,The Burial of

Count Orgaz,1586

p. 258

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Detail, The Burial…

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Detail,The

Burial…

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El GrecoView of Toledoc. 1597Oil on canvas47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.

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El GrecoLaocoon1608-1614Oil on canvas142 x 193 cm

2-faced woman

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El Greco

The Adoration of the Shepards

The Resurrection

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Caravaggio

The Calling of

St. Matthew, c. 1600

KEY IMAGE

p. 269

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From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the

DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the

Baroque

From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the

DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the

Baroque

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Caravaggio Caravaggio

• Murderous, difficult personality

• perhaps as notorious as famous

• worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching

• controversial style – considered sacrilegious by some

• used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories

• followers called “Caravaggisti”

• reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century

• Murderous, difficult personality

• perhaps as notorious as famous

• worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching

• controversial style – considered sacrilegious by some

• used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories

• followers called “Caravaggisti”

• reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century

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CARAVAGGIO Bacchusc. 1597Oil on canvas37 3/8 x 33 1/2 in

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CaravaggioAmor Vincit Omniac. 1601-02Oil on canvas75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in

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CARAVAGGIOThe Crucifixion of Saint Peter1600-1601Oil on canvas90 1/2 x 70 in

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Supper at Emmaus, c.1601

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Caravaggio,The

Conversion of St. Paul,1600-1601

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Gentileschi,Judith Slaying Holofernes,

1620

FAMOUS FEMALE ARTIST;

A CARAVAGGISTI

p. 269; on final!

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Bernini,Ecstasy of St.

Teresa,1647-52

KEY IMAGE

pp. 267-268

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Bernini,David,

1623-24

p. 266

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Bernini,Baldacchino of

St. Peters1624-33

Gilt bronze,Height approx.

100 ft.

p. 263

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Vatican p. 265

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Velazquez, Las

Meninas, 1656

p. 260

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SUMMARY – BAROQUE ART

POLITICS: emergence of The State

ART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal

CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation

ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too

IDEAS: scientific method

POLITICS: emergence of The State

ART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal

CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation

ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too

IDEAS: scientific method