BAROQUE THE AGE OF THE BAROQUE
17 th 17 th and early 18 th centuries When?
BAROQUE: INFLUENCES UPON THE BAROQUE:
ABSOLUTE MONARCHY THE AGE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY
VIOLENT CONFLICTS OVER RELIGION
CATHOLICISM THE RESURGENCE OF CATHOLICISM
WEALTH FROM TRADE AND COMMERCE
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
Characteristics of The Baroque Characteristics of The Baroque :
Dramatic Dramatic Statement of the Subject!
GRANDIOSE EXPRESSION! THEATRICALITY
Emphasis on the BIG and LARGE: OVERSTATEMENT
Rubens: Marie de Medici Arriving at Marseilles
Tension Conflict Heroic Tragic Scale Tension and Conflict on a Heroic often Tragic Scale
Rubens: The Lion Hunt
PASSION! AWE! ACTIVITY ! PASSION! AWE! ACTIVITY !
Light Dark The use of Light and Dark Emphasis in contrast for Emphasis
The REALISTIC DEPICTION of a WIDE RANGE of HUMANITY
Velasquez: The Waterseller of Seville
Jan Steen: Easy Come, Easy Go
Anthony Van Dyck: Portrait of Charles I
Jan Vermeer: The Milkmaid
EXAMPLES a few more EXAMPLES
IN PAINTING: Rembrandt Diego Velasquez Peter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt: The Night Watch
Velasquez: Las Meninas
Rubens: Christ on the Cross Between the Two Thieves
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Christopher Wren Louis Le Vau SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE:
Bernini: The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Louis Le Vau Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles
André Le Nôtre Versailles Gardens
St. Peter’s Square, Rome Bernini
St. Peter’s Square, Rome
Wren St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
Belvedere Palace, Vienna Johann von Hildebrandt
Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna Nikolaus Pacassi
Baroque Gardens show geometric precision
Mazes showed math, science and horticulture and added fun for guests Hampton Court, England
Fountains decorated and showed the power to control water Peterhof Palace St. Petersburg
IN MUSIC : Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi George Frederic Handel Jean-Baptiste Lully
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