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Baroque 1600-1750

Baroque 1600-1750. 1600 – the modern world. The old way – a network of loyalties. CITY. CITY. CITY. CITY. The new way – THE STATE. CITY. CITY. CITY. CITY. This idea in art – Versailles. p. 278-79. Baroque. Change from church to absolute monarchy

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Baroque 1600-1750

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  1. Baroque1600-1750

  2. 1600 – the modern world

  3. The old way – a network of loyalties CITY CITY CITY CITY

  4. The new way – THE STATE CITY CITY CITY CITY

  5. This idea in art – Versailles p. 278-79

  6. Baroque • Change from church to absolute monarchy • Exemplified by Louis 14th and Versailles • an insult -“grotesque”- applied to design & architecture • comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture

  7. Baroque • comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama • also: complex, ornamented, convoluted

  8. Artists • El Greco - Spain • Caravaggio - Italy • Bernini – Italy • Rubens - France • Rembrant – Holland • Vermeer - Holland

  9. El Greco,The Burial of Count Orgaz,1586 p. 258

  10. Detail, The Burial…

  11. Detail,The Burial…

  12. El GrecoView of Toledoc. 1597Oil on canvas47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.

  13. 2-faced woman El GrecoLaocoon1608-1614Oil on canvas142 x 193 cm

  14. El Greco The Adoration of the Shepards The Resurrection

  15. CaravaggioThe Calling of St. Matthew,c. 1600 KEY IMAGE p. 269

  16. From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the Baroque

  17. Caravaggio • Murderous, difficult personality • perhaps as notorious as famous • worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching • controversial style – considered sacrilegious by some • used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories • followers called “Caravaggisti” • reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century

  18. CARAVAGGIO Bacchusc. 1597Oil on canvas37 3/8 x 33 1/2 in

  19. CaravaggioAmor Vincit Omniac. 1601-02Oil on canvas75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in

  20. CARAVAGGIOThe Crucifixion of Saint Peter1600-1601Oil on canvas90 1/2 x 70 in

  21. Supper at Emmaus, c.1601

  22. Caravaggio,The Conversion of St. Paul,1600-1601

  23. Gentileschi,Judith Slaying Holofernes,1620 FAMOUS FEMALE ARTIST; A CARAVAGGISTI p. 269; on final!

  24. Bernini,Ecstasy of St. Teresa,1647-52 KEY IMAGE pp. 267-268

  25. Bernini,David,1623-24 p. 266

  26. Bernini,Baldacchino of St. Peters1624-33Gilt bronze,Height approx. 100 ft. p. 263

  27. p. 265 Vatican

  28. Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656 p. 260

  29. SUMMARY – BAROQUE ART POLITICS: emergence of The State ART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too IDEAS: scientific method

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