The Baroque Era

1. The Baroque Era

2. Baroque Architecture • Proportional but extravagant • Fancy and pretty details • A lot of columns, arches, domes and rounded shapes • The scroll is especially baroque (like a cinnamon roll swirl)

3. Architecture of Baroque • Luxurious chateaux • Decorative motifs of Italian Renaissance • Love of and emphasis on decoration • Graceful, harmonious

4. Versailles • Hunting camp for Louis XIII • Louis XIV made it a castle • 2000 windows - Private zoo with elephants • 700 rooms - Chinese carousel • 1250 fireplaces - Gondolas on canal • 67 staircases • 1800 acres of park

5. Entrance to the Versailles Palace

6. Hall of Mirrors-Versailles

7. Bedchamber-Versailles

8. The Cathedral of the Smolney Convent

9. Francesco Borromini • Rebellious, emotionally disturbed • Bernini’s rival • Concave & convex surfaces created motion • Suicide – how? • Fell on a sword

10. Borromini

11. BorrominiSan Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

12. Sir Christopher WrenSt. Paul’s Cathedral (London)

13. Details & Proportion

14. Scroll

17. Sculpture

18. Gianlorenzo Bernini • More decorative than Renaissance •    Painter, playwright, composer •     Worked for Louis XIV •     Considered greatest sculptor • David in motion • Created a bronze canopy/altar for St. Peter’s •    -Taller than a 10 story building •       -Columns with carved vines, leaves, bees

19. Gianlorenzo Bernini Also an architect • Fountains • Palaces • Churches • Piazza in front of St. Peter’s Basilica

20. Apollo & Daphne

22. Bernini altar

23. BerniniTop of the altarat St. Peter’s

24. BerniniEcstasy of St. Theresa She believed she had been pierced by an angel’s dart infusing her with divine love.

25. Bernini’s David

27. Paintings

28. Baroque Art • Ornate and decorative • No clear central figure • Distorted origin of light • Religious and secular • Funded by popes and monarchs • Baroque is sometimes used negatively to mean gaudy and over-decorative.

29. Caravaggio • Intentionally sought to shock and offend • “evil genius” and “anti-Christ of painting” • Went from city to city fleeing the law • “Death of a Virgin” causes a problem • Daring innovator

30. CaravaggioDeath of the Virgin

31. Caravaggio Sacrifice of Isaac Caravaggio: Sacrifice

32. Peter Paul Rubens • Worked throughout Europe with many people • “Fat is beautiful,” many nudes • Painted suggestive rape scenes • Portraits with sentimental looks • Work is said to be vulgar and insincere • Admired but disliked

33. RubensThe Descent from the Cross

34. RubensThe Three Graces

35. Rembrandt van Rijn • Light and dark color contrasts • Paintings looked like photos • Almost 100 self-portraits • Early works: detailed, physical action, many subjects • Late works: done quickly, psychological, single subjects

36. RembrandtThe Nightwatch

37. RembrandtSelf-portrait

38. Jans Vermeer • Indoor paintings as if you were there • Subject is always holding something • Use of indirect lighting • Used texture to give depth

39. VermeerLady writing letter with her maid

40. VermeerWoman Sleeping

41. William Hogarth • English artist as a social critic • Created the comic strip • First political cartoonist • Overcome England’s inferiority complex

42. HogarthJohn Wilkes, Esquire

43. BedlamHogarth

44. El Greco – Domenikos Theotokopoulos • Emphasis on Counter-Reformation • Mannerism • Elongation of bodies • Use of color – intense & unusual

45. Madonna & Child

46. Holy Trinity

47. Diego Velazquez • Spanish master • Lifelike portraits • Natural poses , no props • Very influential and loved

48. Velazquez Pope Innocent X Juan de Pareja

49. VelazquezVenus at her mirror

50. Velazquez, Las Meninas