Baroque Architecture & Sculpture Bernini and Ribera Can you discuss the specific formal characteristics of work? Can you explain why the work is Baroque?

Bernini The Baldacchino 1624 bronze, partly gilt St. Peter’s, Vatican

Bernini The Baldacchino 1624 bronze, partly gilt St. Peter’s, Vatican

Bernini The Baldacchino 1624 bronze, partly gilt St. Peter’s, Vatican

The Spedale degli Innocenti was a foundling children’s orphanage established in 1419 and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. This Foundling Hospital is regarded as a prime example of early Italian Renissance architecture. Filippo Brunelleschi Spedale degli Innocenti 1419 An exemplary piece of early Renaissance architecture. How is this work different from Bernini’s? Each artist has designed a canopy—a covering—of sorts….

Bernini Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy 1647-52 marble Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome This sculpture represents Saint Teresa as she has a vision.

Bernini Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy 1647-52 marble Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

Bernini Beata Ludovica Albertoni 1671-74 marble Cappella Altieri, San Francesco a Ripa, Rome This sculpture represents the nun, Ludovica Albertoni, on her deathbed. She is experiencing religious ecstasy as she meets with the Holy Spirit.

Michelangelo Pietà 1499 marble A very spiritual work, yet incredibly different. How?

Portal of the Hospicio de San Fernando Perdo de Ribera 1722 Madrid

Façade of the Church of Sant’Andrea Leon Battista Alberti 1470 Mantua