Baroque Art

1. Baroque Art

2. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 • Begins in Rome • -Renaissance artists did everything “perfectly”, so it was a time to change… • -Reaction to Mannerism

4. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 • Begins in Rome • -Renaissance artists did everything “perfectly”, so it was a time to change… • -Reaction to Mannerism • 2. Every country that develops it, adds its own “spin” • 3. Most common element = Use of light to achieve maximum emotional impact.

5. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 • Begins in Rome • -Renaissance artists did everything “perfectly”, so it was a time to change… • -Reaction to Mannerism • 2. Every country that develops it, adds its own “spin” • 3. Most common element = Use of light to achieve maximum emotional impact. • 4. Patrons = wealthy & burghers looking for home improvements for living rooms… • 5. Emphasis on emotion + dynamism rather than rationality + stasis

6. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 • Two distinct “schools” of Baroque Art: • Catholic Countries: Italy, Flanders (Flemish), Spain, France • Protestant Countries: England & Holland (Dutch)

7. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 Catholic Countries: Italy, Flanders (Flemish), Spain, France Common Traits that reflect the values of the time: -Gigantic religious works to display their faith’s triumph and to over-whelm and attract new worshippers. -Massive displays of wealth by absolute monarchs to enchant and impress visitors.

8. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 Catholic Countries: Italy, Flanders (Flemish), Spain, France What to look for: -Use of light – harsh light from single source to concentrate your eye (chiaroscuro but for focal point…). -Saints and miracles looking like ordinary people and events -dynamic explosion of energy – images captured at height of action -VERY fat female nudes -portraits – posed to show refinement but looked “real”

9. Caravaggio Italian Conversion of St. Paul

10. Caravaggio Italian The Supper at Emmaus

11. Bernini Italian David

12. David

13. Bernini Italian The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

14. Bernini Italian Baldachin of St. Peter’s Cathedral This supreme example of Baroque art was the first masterpiece that the twenty-six year old genius, Gianlorenzo Bernini made for St. Peter's Basilica. It is impossible not to admire this fantastic, sumptuous bronze canopy supported by four spiral columns, richly decorated with gold, as it majestically rises upward. It is the largest known bronze artwork. He sent most of his life working on St. Peter’s Cathedral

15. Rubens Flemish The Descent from the Cross

16. Rubens Flemish The Hippopotamus Hunt

17. Rubens Flemish Marie Arrives at Marseilles

18. Rubens Flemish The Three Graces

19. Van Dyck Flemish Charles I at the Hunt

20. Van Dyck Flemish Count of Ossuna

22. Velazquez Spanish Portrait of Pope Innocent X

23. Velazquez Spanish This painting was voted in 1985 as “the greatest work of art by a human being.” Las Meninas

24. In the seventeenth century, France was the most powerful country in the world and Louis XIV tapped the finest talents to glorify his monarchy. France replaced Rome as the center of European art (a distinction it held until WWII) even though its art was modeled on Roman relics… Poussin was the most famous French artist. Painted antiquity – French Baroque art is often referred to as “Classicism” because it was copied so often during the next 200 years.

25. Poussin French Burial of Phocion

26. Poussin French Autumn or The Grapes brought from the Promised Land.

27. The classic example of Baroque art/style

28. Baroque Art – 1600-1750 Protestant Countries: Holland (Dutch) & England Common Traits that reflect the values of the time: -Still lifes -Landscapes -Portraits -Very little to no religious imagery

30. Ruisdael Dutch The Sunbeam

31. Ruisdael Dutch The Sunbeam

32. Hals Dutch The Jolly Toper Jester with a Lute

33. Hals Dutch The Laughing Cavalier

34. Rembrandt Dutch

35. Rembrandt Dutch Night Watch

36. Rembrandt Dutch The Masters of the Cloth Guild

37. Vermeer Dutch The Geographer

38. Vermeer Dutch The Milkmaid

39. Vermeer Dutch Girl with a Pearl Earring

40. Vermeer Dutch The Artist’s Studio

41. Hogarth English Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode

42. Hogarth English Gin Lane

43. Gainsborough English Reynolds English