Baroque

1. Baroque Or not! Sounds like what you might hear on the radio today! ba-roque / bə-’rōk According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: 1. An irregularly shaped pearl. 2. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent in the 17th century that is marked generally by extravagant forms and elaborate and sometimes grotesque ornamentation and specifically also in architecture by dynamic opposition and the use of curved figures, in music by improvisation, contrasting effects and powerful tensions, and in literature by complexity of form and bizarre, ingenious and often ambiguous imagery. extravagant grotesque complexity bizarre ambiguous

2. Baroque Music, art, architecture and literature became elaboratley detailed and ornamented 1600 - 1750 People of the Baroque era tended to find strength in both sides of any question

3. Baroque “Religion was of vital importance, profoundly affecting the literature, philosophy, science, art, and music of the period. … Yet the secular side of life was also more important than ever before in the Christian era, and much Baroque art had a decidedly popular character. (Ferris, 99). 1600 - 1750

4. Baroque • 1600 Dutch opticians invent the telescope • 1602 Galileo investigates laws of gravitation and oscillation • 1605 Shakespeare writes King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra • 1607 Jamestown, VA is founded • 1606 John Milton is born • 1611 King James Bible is first published • 1612 Tobacco is planted in Virginia • 1615 Galileo faces the Inquisition for the first time • 1616 William Shakespeare dies • 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed • 1619 First African slaves in N. America arrive in Virginia • 1620 Pilgrims arrive in America • 1626 Island of Manhattan purchased from Indian chiefs for about $24.00 • 1631 Eng. Mathematician William Oughtred proposes symbol “X” for multiplication • 1636 Harvard College is founded • 1637 Japan prohibits contact with Europe • 1639 First printing press in N. America • 1642 Isaac Newton is born History

5. Baroque • 1650 Tea is drunk in England for the first time • 1652 First opera house in Vienna • 1656 Rembrandt declares bankruptcy • 1659 Henry Purcell is born • 1660 Water closets arrive from France in England • 1665 Great plague of London begins • 1675 Antonio Vivaldi is born • 1677 Ice cream becomes a popular dessert in Paris • 1680 The Dodo bird becomes extinct • 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach is born • 1685 George Frederic Händel is born • 1698 Metastasio is born • 1701 Captain William Kidd is hanged for piracy • 1703 Construction begins on Buckingham Palace • 1704 First American newspaper, Boston News Letter • 1706 Benjamin Franklin is born • 1709 Pianoforte is invented • 1719 Leopold Mozart is born History

6. Baroque The Expulsion of the Money Lenders From the Marketplace, Rembrandt Art Baroque artistic characteristics Space filled with action and movement

7. Baroque Baroque artistic characteristics Sense of Dynamics and Passion Art Marriage à la Mode: The Contract, William Hogarth

8. Baroque Bust of the Savior, Gianlorenzo Bernini baroque artistic characteristics Creating illusion Art

9. Baroque Christ Church, London England, 1715 – 1729 Nicholas Hawksmoor Architecture Architectural Characteristics Twisting, curling designs Elaborate carvings

10. Baroque Architecture Piazza di Pietra, Rome, Italy 1656 - 1667 Gianlorenzo Bernini

11. Baroque Architecture Chateau de Versailles Versailles, France 1661 - 1774 Numerous architects

12. Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695 Baroque Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Music Purcell was the leading English composer of the Baroque period. He wrote more than 100 songs, chamber music, dramatic music, odes, some sacred songs, harpsichord suites and organ music.

13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 - 1741 Baroque Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Music Vivaldi was the leading Italian composer of the late Baroque. He wrote 500 concertos, 50 operas, 40 Cantatas, and a great deal of church music including oratorios, motets and psalms.

14. J. S. Bach 1685 - 1750 Baroque Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Music Master of the baroque style, Bach wrote over 300 church cantatas, several masses, a magnificat, two passions, oratorios, motets, organ music, keyboard music, 6 sonatas for violin, 6 Brandenburg Concertos, and numerous other types of music.

15. G.F. Händel 1685 - 1759 Baroque Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Music Händel wrote more than 40 operas, 30 oratorios, 40 sonatas and 100 cantatas (all secular). He was the major force in English musical life during his lifetime and had a great influence on the works of Haydn.

16. Baroque Rene Descartes 1596 - 1631 Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician. He believed that in all things only mathematics was certain, therefore, all knowledge must be based on mathematics. Authors

17. John Milton 1608 - 1674 Baroque English poet best known for hie epic poem Paradise Lost based on the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden. Authors

18. Jean-Baptiste PoquelinMolière 1622 - 1673 Baroque Molière left behind a body of work which not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands(1661), The School for Wives(1662), The Misanthrope(1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself(1666), Tartuffe(1664,1667,1669), The Miser(1668), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673). Authors