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Arts in the Age of Religious Conflict 1560-1648

Arts in the Age of Religious Conflict 1560-1648. Mannerism: Late Renaissance 1520-1600 Italian de maneria …. a work of art done according to an acquired style rather than reality. High Renaissance times stable compositions symmetrical weighted toward center Mannerism

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Arts in the Age of Religious Conflict 1560-1648

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  1. Arts in the Age of Religious Conflict 1560-1648

  2. Mannerism: • Late Renaissance • 1520-1600 • Italian de maneria …. • a work of art done according to • an acquired style rather than reality

  3. High Renaissance times stable compositions symmetrical weighted toward center Mannerism world in chaos compositions oblique void in center figures crowed around edges figures often cut off by frames

  4. Features of Mannerism • Art at impasse after perfection and • harmony of Renaissance • Answer to replace harmony with • dissonance and discord • Replace reason with emotion • Replace reality with imagination • Exaggerate ideal beauty of • Michelangelo • Instability instead of equilibrium • Bodies distorted • Colors lurid

  5. Jacopo Pontormo Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legionc. 1531

  6. Detail of Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion Pontormo

  7. Pontormo The Virgin and Child with St Joseph and John the Baptist ,   Between 1521 and 1527

  8. Pontormo Portrait of Maria Salviati with a Little Girl (probably Giulia de' Medici)

  9. Rosso Fiorentino Moses Defends the Daughters of Jethro, C.1523

  10. Agnolo Bronzino A Young Woman and Her Little Boy, c. 1540 The Holy Family, c. 1527/1528

  11. Parmigianino Madonna of the Long Neck, 1534

  12. TINTORETTO The Last Supper , 1594

  13. The Master Of Mannerism: El Greco (Domenikos Theotocopoulos) View of Toledo

  14. El Greco The Pietà (The Lamentation Of Christ)

  15. El Greco The Apostle St. Paul

  16. El Greco The Apostle St. Thomas

  17. El Greco Resurrection

  18. Baroque Art: 1600-1750 (More detail in next chapter) Baroque artists took Renaissance figures and subjects and set them spinning like tops.

  19. Baroque Art in a Nutshell • Combined Renaissance style with Mannerism • Supported by popes and absolute monarchs • Dramatic, dynamic, and ornate • Used extreme differences in light and shade • Catholic countries = religious, active figures • Protestant countries = mundane, less action • Old Renaissance style continued as classicism

  20. Theater Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616)

  21. Globe Theater

  22. Reflected concerns of the age… Great Tragedies Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth Nature of power and authority …chaos resulting from misused power

  23. Lope de Vega Spanish, wrote 1500+ plays 1562-1635

  24. Music and Opera Lutheran…chorale (harmony) Calvinist…unison Opera…music, drama, dance, scenery in sensual display Monteverde…Orfeo Orchestra as well as vocals

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