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TIMELINE:Baroque and
Rococo
Baroque and Rococo•The arts of the 1600s are known as Baroque and the arts of the 1700s became Rococo.
Baroque• This style began in Rome, Italy in the 1600s and
spread throughout most of Europe due to the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Baroque meant irregular, grotesque, and contorted.
• Baroque art contained exaggerated movement to produce drama, tension, and exuberance within the piece.
• This term described the movement, curves, and frivolous elegance seen in art and architecture.
Baroque• Paintings of the period contained
twisted figures, movement, and dramatic lighting.
Aeneas’ Flight from Troy, 1598 Barocci
Baroque• Statues appeared in hallways,
gardens, and even lined rooftops.
• Particular sculptures of the era were groundbreaking because they implied movement and psychological intensity.
David, 1624Bernini
(David preparing to throw the stone to take down Goliath)
- sculpted for a Cardinal’s villa
The Baroque Period• Scientific knowledge made monumental
gains during the Baroque period.
• Scientific discoveries from this period include Newton’s laws of gravity, calculus, laws of basic chemistry, and the beginning of modern medicine.
The Baroque Period• Western European kingdoms expanded in
the wake of exploration.• France created trading posts and colonies
in Canada and the Mississippi Valley down to New Orleans.
• France became the dominant power of the western world, and French became the language of culture and diplomacy.
The Baroque Period• France built lavish courts for kings and
nobles. • King Louis XIV epitomized the glory of court
life.• His preoccupation with everything on a
grand scale was not simply an expression of taste – the arts were used as tools to illustrate the power of the state and the position of the king as ruler by divine right.
The Baroque Period• Artists became residents of the court,
painting portraits of the king, his family, and friends.
The Baroque Period• The architecture at this time was extremely
ornate, inside and out.
• Stylized curves and leaves, gold leaf and gold paints, silks, plaster work in designs of cherubs, and many other types of decoration made interiors appear like oaks with much icing.
Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France
Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France
Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France
Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France
Palace of Versailles, 1632
Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France
Palace of Versailles, 1632
The Baroque Period• King Louis created elaborate rules of etiquette and
occupied every moment with trivial duties and entertainments.
• The monarchs and nobility of this period, both men and women, dressed in powdered wigs, high heels, laces and ruffles, jeweled buttons and buckles with jewelry on both hands and their necks.
• Elaborate balls, carnivals, and festivals were held on most any occasion.
Louis XIV of FranceRiguad1701
The Baroque Period• With France as the forefront for lavish
living, it gave way for a new artistic movement.
Rococo• Rococo was a term given to a refined form of
Baroque art. • The style developed in the 1700s in Paris, France
as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry, and strict regulations of the Baroque style.
• Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid, and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.
• Rococo was more ornate and made strong usage of asymmetrical designs, curves, and gold.
Rococo• King Louis XVI and Queen Marie
Antoinette ushered in the waive of Rococo in Versailles.
Rococo• Their ornate and lavish fashions
spread the Rococo style throughout all of France.
Rococo• Fashions of silk, satins, and laces with
lavish jewelry and stylized wigs were realistically and beautifully painted in rich colors.
Marie Antoinette at age 13
Portrait of Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria
Martin van Meytens
1767
King Louis XVI at age 20
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France
Joseph Duplessis1776
Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria
Jean-Baptiste Gautier
1775
Marie Antoinette at age 19 in her coronation robes.
Louis XVI, King of France
Antoine-Francois Callet
1789
Marie Antoinette
Archduchess Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Louise Le Brun1778
Rococo• It was a time when the wealthy were happy
and carefree and the lower classes suffered in poverty.
• This difference would bring about the rebellions of both the American colonists and the French lower classes.
Rococothroughout
Europe
Church of the Augustinian Cannons, 1763Polling, Germany
St. Andriy’s Church, 1744
Kiev, Ukraine
Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren, 1737
Ottobeuren, Germany
Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren, 1737
Ottobeuren, Germany