Opener

1. Opener • King Louis the XIV was nicknamed the Sun King. How does this nickname relate to a huge palace like Versailles and an absolutist monarchy? • 5-10 minutes

2. Opener Review – Baroque Music(on your own paper, leave in your opener section) • Identify the name and composer of each song 1.) 2.) 3.)

3. French Baroque • Academies • Neoclassical • Louis XIV • The Palace of Versailles • Theater • Music and Dance • Racine • Moliere • Poussin

4. Academies -state-sponsored schools -trained artists and performers -set standards of taste -based on Plato’s academy -imposed conservative rules on the arts

5. Louis XIV • 1638 – 1715 • 1660 took control of French Government • Absolutist control even in cultural affairs • “Sun King” • Governed all the major arts • Theater, dance, opera, painting and sculpture • Remodeled Louvre and Versailles chateau

11. The Palace of Versailles • absolutist control over nature and man • 1935 feet (6 ½ football fields!) • Remolded hunting chateau • French nobility required to live there to control their influence • 50,000 people -gov. officials -courtiers -royal family

12. Architect -Le Vau/Mansart • Garden Designer -Le Notre • Interior Decorator -Lebrun

23. Bed

24. Hall of Mirrors

25. Theater • Controlled by academy • 5 acts • Obey unity of time/place • Uplifting moral

26. Jean Racine -1639-1699 -tragedy -rhymed verse -stories from Greek tragedy -criticized for being too realistic

27. Moliere – Jean-Baptiste Poquelin -1622-1673 -comedy -used wit to attack hypocrisy/vice of French society -performed at the Louvre and Versailles -Tartuffe -story of a religious hypocrite

28. Music and Dance • Jean-Baptiste Lully -Italian -ruled over French music, opera, and dance -professionalized dance -developed dance school for ballet

29. Spanish Baroque • Architecture -show wealth of Spanish Monarchy -Assert authority over native inhabitants -promote Catholicism in the Americas (Cathedral of Mexico built on ruins of Aztec Temple of the Sun)

30. Cathedral of Mexico 1718-1737

32. Escorial Palace

34. El Greco “The Greek” • 1541-1614 • painter • Domenikos Theotocopoulos • Trained in Venice, Italy • Applied Renaissance technique to intense religiosity • The Burial of Count Orgaz

35. The Burial of Count Orgaz

36. Diego Velazquez • 1599-1660 • Master painter at age 18 • realism through bold color/brushwork • Painted images directly, no outlines • Only well-known Spanish Baroque artist • Las Meninas (Maids of Honor) • Triangular composition • Use of light

37. Las Meninas

38. English BaroqueChristopher Wren • 1632-1723 • English Architect • 1666 great fire allowed him to “rebuild London” • Saint Paul’s Cathedral 1675-1710 -combined Gothic, Ren., and Baroque styles

39. St. Paul’sCathedral

40. Interior

41. Floor plan

42. St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Cityby Gialorenzo Bernini

43. Church of Santiago de Compostella, Spain

44. Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany

45. “The Assumption of the Virgin Mary”Egid Quirim Asam, 1692-1750

46. Altar of Mercy, Germany, 1764

47. Baroque Homes

48. Baroque Furniture

49. Baroque Furniture

50. A Baroque Room