2. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

3. Baroque  1600 – 1750.  From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”  Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.  The more dramatic, the better!

4. Baroque Style of Art & Architecture  Emotional.  Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.  Counter-Reformation art.  Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.  Ecclesiastical art.

6. St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Gialorenzo Bernini

7. Church of Santiago de Compostella, Spain

8. Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany

9. Interior of a Dominican Church in Vilnius

11. “St. Francis in Ecstasy” Caravaggio, 1595

12. “The Flagellation of Christ” by Caravaggio

13. “David and Goliath” by Caravaggio

14. “Salome with the Head of the Baptist” by Caravaggio

15. “The Cardsharps” Caravaggio, 1595

16. “Self- Portrait: The Artist” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638-1639 The first woman accepted into the Academy of Drawing in Florence

17. “Judith Beheading Holofernes” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612-1621

18. “Susanna & the Elders” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1610

19. “The Dead Christ Mourned” Annibale Carracci, 1603

20. “The Virgin Appearing to St. Hyacinthe” Lodovico Carracci 1594

21. “Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob” Diego Velázquez, 1630

22. “Christ on the Cross” Diego Velázquez, 1632

23. “Las Meninas” Diego Velázquez 1656

24. “St. Francis in Meditation” Francisco de Zurbarán

25. “St. Bonaventure on His Deathbed” Francisco de Zurbarán, 1629

26. “The Elevation of the Cross” by Peter Paul Reubens 1610-11

27. “The Lamentation” by Peter Paul Reubens 1609-11

28. “Battle of the Amazons” Peter Paul Reubens

29. “A Village Fête” Peter Paul Reubens

30. “The Garden of Love” Peter Paul Reubens, 1630-32

31. “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila” by Gianlorenzo Bernini 1647-52

32. “A Bust of Louis XIV” by Bernini

33. “A Bust of Cardinal Richelieu” by Bernini

34. “Louis XVI” Hyacinthe Rigauld

36. Baroque Furniture

38. A Baroque Room

39. Giovanni Francesco Marchini, 1702-1736