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Baroque Art

Baroque Art. If it’s not Baroque don’t fix it!. Hee Hee Hee!. Characteristics of Baroque Art. Return to Rome as the centre of the arts—that’s where the money was Complex, but unnecessarily More passionate Art seems “overdone”. Mannerism.

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Baroque Art

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  1. Baroque Art If it’s not Baroque don’t fix it! Hee Hee Hee!

  2. Characteristics of Baroque Art • Return to Rome as the centre of the arts—that’s where the money was • Complex, but unnecessarily • More passionate • Art seems “overdone”

  3. Mannerism • Began in Italy—spreads North because of - outbreak of the plague (1522) - the sack of Rome (1527) • Self-consciously artificial –derived from certain aspects of works of Raphael and Michelangelo • Formulated abstraction—emphasizes grace variety, and virtuoso at the expense of clarity, content, and unity

  4. Appeals to a small sophisticated audience • Comes out of the High Renaissance quest for originality—projection of individuals personality—explore imaginations freely • Many regarded it as decadent • Intensely religious subjects yet also shows spiritual bankruptcy • Later praise for its visionary power to help shift to religious sensibility

  5. The Venus of UrbinoTitian, 1538

  6. Christ in the House of LeviVeronese, 1573

  7. Detail

  8. Burial of Count OrgazEl Greco, 1586

  9. Detail

  10. Detail: Contemporaries & Patrons

  11. Detail: Ascension

  12. Baroque Art in the South • Art become propaganda—Counter Reformation: want to get people back into the church and St. Peter’s most important venues for art • Mysticism brought into the church—architecture glorifies God • Jesuits help to reform church in 1500s/1600s • Attendance kept of people going to church

  13. The Calling of St. MatthewCaravaggio, 1599-1602

  14. Detail

  15. Judith and the Maidservant with the Head of HolofernesGentileschi, 1625

  16. Glorification of the Reign of Pope Urban VIIIda Cortona, 1633-1639; Fresco

  17. Detail

  18. David (marble)Bernini, 1623

  19. Ecstasy ofSt. TheresaBernini, 1645-1652; marble

  20. Tabernacle (Baldacchino) at the Crossing of St. Peter’s Bernini; 1624-1633

  21. Baroque Art in the North • Holland and Flanders (S. Netherlands) • Not sponsored by the State and church because of Reformation/Protestantism • Private collector is chief form of support • Pictures became a commodity • Supply and demand allowed artists to produce for a market—not unusual for an artist to run and business

  22. France and England • France: more about the glorification of King Louis XIV • England: no real contribution except the rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666

  23. Malle Babbe Frans Hals; 1650

  24. Detail

  25. Blinding of SamsonRembrandt; 1636

  26. Detail

  27. Return of the Prodigal SonRembrandt; 1665

  28. Detail

  29. Detail

  30. Night Watch Rembrandt

  31. Detail

  32. The Love Letter Vermeer; 1666

  33. Detail

  34. Christ in the Carpenter’s Shopde la Tour; 1645

  35. Detail

  36. Rape of the Sabine WomenPoussin;1636-1637

  37. Detail

  38. The Garden of LoveRubens; 1638

  39. Palace at Versailles Hardouin-mansart; 1669-1685

  40. Detail: Garden Front

  41. Baroque gone nuts, Russia

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