1. Samuli KAUPPINEN ja Miro HUUSKONEN
THE BAROQUE
Samuli KAUPPINEN ja Miro HUUSKONEN

2. The birth of BAROQUE Baroque era began around 1600 AD in Rome
The Catholic Church supported baroque, because of the anti-reformation that had begun
Baroque architecture was a propaganda tool of Church [1]

3. What is baroque like? - Histrionic, dramaticism
- People liked to make sceneries
- Illusionism (People liked supernatural things)
- Dynamicity
- The passions, the extremes of suffering and violence
- The diversity of phenomena [1,2]

4. Peter Paul Rubens: The Straw Hat
The portrait is of Susanna Lunden who is a sister of Rubens' wife Helena Fourment. [4]
The standard of beauty of baroque is obscuring. The standard requires people to be big because the bigger you are, the more money you have. [3]

5. Michelangelo Caravaggio, Narcissus
This piece of art gives us a narcissistic body image. The picture seems to be of a young Baroque woman who stares at her own mirror image in a narcissist manner. When it comes to art, men are pretty much same looking as women (Please don't get this wrong) [3]

6. Famous BAROQUE artists (painters)
Rembrandt
Diego Velázquez
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Peter Paul Rubens
Michelangelo Caravaggio
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Rembrandt’s painting of Rembrandt -->

7. Pictures:

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9. Sources [1] http://www.britannica.com/art/Baroque-period
[2] Horila (2000) Kuvataide taidehistoria WSOY opetusmateriaali.
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[4] of-susanna-lunden-le-chapeau-de-paille
[5] artists/reference?var=2&utm_expid= vlqpgn- RoaJUIiApA53hg.1&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.fi%2F