Striving to Impress Baroque Definition A period of history A description of artisticmusical style after the Renaissance Originally a derogatory termirregular shaped pearl Causes and Origins ID: 273005
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BaroqueStriving to ImpressSlide2
Baroque: DefinitionA period of history A description of artistic/musical style after the RenaissanceOriginally a derogatory
term-irregular shaped pearlSlide3
Causes and OriginsCounter reformation movement (glory of the church)Rulers wanted a style signifying gloryArtist’s desire to be more expressiveOriginated in ItalySlide4
CharacteristicsHow does Baroque compare with the Renaissance?Unique contributionsEmotion/Religious fervor/RealismDramatic (light and shade/perspective)
Exploration of form (elaborateness, exaggeration) but all in control
VirtuositySlide5
Architecture and SculptureSlide6
Architecture StyleVersaillesLandscaping
Hall of Mirrors
ExtravaganceSlide7
Architecture StyleSt. Peter’s Square (Bernini)Slide8
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Baldacchino
(Altar covering in St. Peters)Slide9
Bernini
Ecstasy of St. TheresaSlide10
Bernini
DavidSlide11
Bernini
Apollo and Daphne
Pluto and PersephoneSlide12
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
The Calling of Saint Matthew
Chiaroscuro
RealismSlide13
CaravaggioThe Martyrdom of Saint MatthewEmotionPerspectiveSlide14
CaravaggioDavid with the head of GoliathEmotion/realism
Perspective (foreshortening)
Light/darknessSlide15
Caravaggio: The Supper at EmmausPerspectiveRealismSlide16
Artemesia GentileschiJudith and HolofornesEmotion
Realism
PerspectiveSlide17
El GrecoThe Burial of Count OrgazReligious fervorVirtuosity (color)Slide18
Diego VelazquezLas Meninas (Maids of Honor)Perspective
Virtuosity (detail)
The art of creating art (similar to the view of literature making literature in Don Quixote)Slide19
Velazquez: The Surrender of Breda (Las Lances)
Perspective
VirtuositySlide20
Peter Paul Rubens
Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie De Medici
Rape of the Daughters of LeucippusSlide21
Anthony Van Dyke
Charles I on Horseback
Charles I: King of England at the Hunt Slide22
Rembrandt: Night WatchSlide23
Rembrandt
Dr. Tulp’s Anatomy LessonSlide24
Frans Hals
The Laughing CavalierSlide25
Jan Vermeer
The Art of Painting
Study of a Young WomanSlide26
Georges de La Tour
Christ in the Carpenter’s Shop