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Baroque Art 17 th Century Italy, Spain, Flanders, Holland, France, England. 2 nd ed chap 19 3 rd ed chap 22. 17 th Cen Baroque Characteristics. Early Baroque = harsh realism of Caravaggio Academic Baroque = Carracci High Baroque = exuberance of Bernini & Rubens
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Baroque Art17th CenturyItaly, Spain, Flanders, Holland, France, England 2nd ed chap 193rd ed chap 22
17th Cen BaroqueCharacteristics • Early Baroque = harsh realism of Caravaggio • Academic Baroque = Carracci • High Baroque = exuberance of Bernini & Rubens • Spanish Baroque = realism & meticulous textures • French Baroque = restrained & Classical • Baroque of Holland = earthly bourgeois
Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of St. Ignatius,1691-1694 ceiling fresco Pieter Saenredam, Interior of the Choir of St. Bavo’s Church Haarlem, 1660
Michelangelo Merisi CARAVAGGIO Self Portrait as Bacchus
1612-1613 1625
Judith Slaying Holofernes Artemisia Gentileschi Caravaggio
Italian Baroque Painting:Overall Stylistic Characteristics • Increased sense of naturalism due to contemporizing religious subject matter and using everyday faces-the common man, unidealized, human earthly • Dramatic lighting-using clearly defined and specific light sources, often w/in the picture-creates dramatic modeling of form (in chiaroscuro) emerging out of the darkness: tenebrism • The use of saturated, intense, dramatic color
Spanish BaroqueCharacteristics • Make a list • Realism and meticulous textures
Zurbaran Ribera
Velazquez Juan de Pareja, 1649-1650 Water Carrier of Seville, 1619
February 12, 2009Daily grade Name: _____________ Per: ______ Teacher: _________ Biographer Giovanni Bellori said about Caravaggio in 1672: • “There is no question that Caravaggio advanced the art of painting because he came upon the scene at a time when realism was not much in fashion and when figures were made according to convention and manner satisfied more the taste for gracefulness than for truth. Thus by avoiding all prettiness and vanity in his color, Caravaggio strengthened his tones and gave them flesh and blood.” –Bellori, The Lives of Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. • Choose and identify a work by Caravaggio. Discuss the validity of Bellori’s statement about Caravaggio’s work in view of art works that have preceded it.
Interior Dome of Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, 1638-41 Francesco Borromini
Flanders BaroqueCharacteristics • Make a list
Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles, 1622-1625