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B A R O Q U E A R T. BAROQUE ART 1600-1750. • Originated in Italy • The artistic and musical style after the Renaissance • Ornate, sensual, expressive, realistic, religious, intense colors, and dramatic lighting – chiaroscuro.
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B A R O Q U E A R T
BAROQUE ART 1600-1750 • Originated in Italy • The artistic and musical style after the Renaissance • Ornate, sensual, expressive, realistic, religious, intense colors, and dramatic lighting – chiaroscuro. • Renaissance art shows the moment before an event. • Baroque art tends to show the drama of the event.
The Drama of an Event. Michelangelo’s David Bernini’s David
TWO SCHOOLS • Catholic – French, Italians, Spanish, and FlemishFrance was the most powerful country.The center of art shifted from Rome to France. • Protestant – Dutch, and EnglishLittle religious subjects.
French – Poussin, Antoine Coysevox Italian – Caravaggio, Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi Spanish - El Greco, Diego Velázquez Flemish: Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens Dutch, Rembrant, Vermeer BAROQUE ARTISTS
BAROQUE IN ITALY Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio(1571–1610)
CARAVAGGIO (1571–1610) • His family moved to Caravaggio to escape a plague.- He’s the first great Baroque painter - noted for realism, dramatic lighting (chiaroscuro), and emotion.- He drew with the brush – no sketching was done.- His followers are called Caravaggisti: Rubens, Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Rembrandt. • - He was prone to fighting, and fled Rome because he killed a man, and wounded a police officer.- Although famous, he was forgotten until recently.
Amor Vincet Omnia (1603) Caravaggio
Artemisia Gentileschi1593–1653Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1620
El Greco / Picasso El Greco (1608–1614)Opening of the Fifth Seal Pablo Picasso - 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Early Cubist Influence
Velazquez Velazquez, The Maids of Honour, 1656
Van Dyck Flemish Baroque - Anthony van Dyck (1599 –1641)