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Baroque. 1600 – Rome, Italy. Portrait of Georg Friedrich Handeal by Balthasar Denner.
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Baroque 1600 – Rome, Italy
Portrait of Georg Friedrich Handeal by BalthasarDenner Baroque: a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance and music.
What clear, rich detail do you see here? • What is exaggerated and grand in this image? • How does the image produce drama? • “Portrait of the Marchioness Angela Maria Lombardi” (ca. 1710), Unknown Artist
Symbolism and Iconography • Vanity of human existence • Jewels, coins, and musical instruments personified the vain pleasures of life • Skulls, hourglasses, and extinguished candles were memento mori, or reminders of death. • Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Ladies Walgegrave, (1780)
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