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Baroque Art: 1600-1750. Baroque Art in a Nutshell. Combined Renaissance style with Mannerism Started in Italy Spread to Belgium, Holland, England, Spain Supported by popes and absolute monarchs Dramatic, dynamic, and ornate Most notable for expert use of light and shade
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Baroque Art in a Nutshell • Combined Renaissance style with Mannerism • Started in Italy • Spread to Belgium, Holland, England, Spain • Supported by popes and absolute monarchs • Dramatic, dynamic, and ornate • Most notable for expert use of light and shade • In Catholic countries was often religious • In Protestant countries was more mundane
A Description You’ll Never Forget “Baroque artists took Renaissance figures and subjects and set them spinning like tops.”
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1630
“Audience” Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome 2005
Altar Rome 2005
Ceiling Rome 2005
Bernini St. Peter’s Square 1656-1667
Bernini The Baldacchino (1624) St. Peter’s Basilica
Bernini The Throne of St. Peter (1657-1666) St. Peter’s Basilica
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,1665-1676
Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,1665-1676
Peter Paul Rubens The Descent from the Cross, 1611-1614
Peter Paul Rubens, The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Medici, 1610
Peter Paul Rubens, Marie Arrives at Marseilles, 1622-1626
Marie de Medici
Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I: King of England at the Hunt, 1635
Dutch Baroque (more classic)
Classicism: 1600-1750 Classicists retained the ideals of the Renaissance and produced art that was much more restrained and ordered than their Baroque counterparts. This was the art of science.
Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Cocq (The Nightwatch), 1642
1629 1660 Two of almost 100 Rembrandt self-portraits
Johannes Vermeer Girl With a Pearl Earring, 1665-1666