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BAROQUE ART 1600-1750BAROQUE ART 1600-1750

• Originated in Italy

• The artistic and musical style after the Renaissance

• Ornate, sensual, expressive, realistic, religious, intense colors, and dramatic lighting – chiaroscuro.

• Renaissance art shows the moment before an event.

• Baroque art tends to show the drama of the event.

The Drama of an Event.Michelangelo’s David Bernini’s David

TWO SCHOOLS

• Catholic – French, Italians, Spanish, and FlemishFrance was the most powerful country.The center of art shifted from Rome to France.

• Protestant – Dutch, and EnglishLittle religious subjects.

TWO SCHOOLS

• Catholic – French, Italians, Spanish, and FlemishFrance was the most powerful country.The center of art shifted from Rome to France.

• Protestant – Dutch, and EnglishLittle religious subjects.

BAROQUE ARTISTS

French – Poussin, Antoine Coysevox

Italian – Caravaggio, Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi

Spanish - El Greco, Diego Velázquez

Flemish: Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens

Dutch, Rembrant, Vermeer

BAROQUE IN FRANCE Self-Portrait by Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Nicolas Poussin, 1630

Poussin 1630Poussin 1630

Nicolas_Poussin_1650

Poussin

Antoine-Coysevox 1640-1720Mercury Riding Pegasus

Antoine-Coysevox Neptune 1705

Antoine-Coysevox Nymph with a shell. Marble, 1685

Nicolas Coustou (1658-1733)

Nicolas CoustouNicolas Coustou (1658-1733)(1658-1733)

Nicolas Coustou - Fontain of TuileriesNicolas Coustou - Fontain of Tuileries

BAROQUE IN ITALYBAROQUE IN ITALY

Michelangelo Merisi da CaravaggioMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

(1571–1610)

CARAVAGGIO (1571–1610)

-His family moved to Caravaggio to escape a plague. - He’s the first great Baroque painter - noted for realism, dramatic lighting (chiaroscuro), and emotion.- He drew with the brush – no sketching was done.- His followers are called Caravaggisti: Rubens, Bernini, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Rembrandt.- He was prone to fighting, and fled Rome because he killed a man, and wounded a police officer.- Although famous, he was forgotten until recently.

Caravaggio –The Cardsharps (1594)His first masterpiece.

Caravaggio

Amor Vincet Omnia (1603)Amor Vincet Omnia (1603)

Caravaggio - The Calling of St Matthew, 1600 CE

CARAVAGGIO - Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1601 CE

Caravaggio - Sacrifice of Isaac, 1596

David with the head of Goliath

Caravaggio – Medusa, 1590

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 –1680

Bernini Medusa

Bernini – Apollo and Daphne

Bernini- Ecstasy of St. Teresa, 1652

Bernini - Angel

BerniniBerniniBaldacchino of St.

Peters, 1633Bronze, 100 ft.

Artemisia Gentileschi 1630s

Artemisia Gentileschi 1593–1653

Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1620

Artemisia Gentileschi - Sleeping Venus, 1630

Gentileschi – Danaë, 1612

BAROQUE IN SPAIN

El Greco (1541-1614)

El Greco

ELGRECO – SPAIN, View of Toledo, 1597 CEELGRECO – SPAIN, View of Toledo, 1597 CE

El Greco / Picasso

El Greco (1608–1614)Opening of the Fifth Seal

El Greco (1608–1614)Opening of the Fifth Seal

Early Cubist InfluenceEarly Cubist Influence

Pablo Picasso - 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso - 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Laocoon - 1614 CE

SPAIN Diego Velázquez (1599 – 1660)

Velazquez

Velazquez, The Maids of Honour, 1656

Picaoos - Las Meninas

Velazquez - Pope Innocent X

Baroque Flemish ARTPeter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

Flemish - Peter Paul Rubens, Tiger Hunt, c. 1617

Peter Paul Rubens – Hippopotamus Hunt, 1617

Rubens - Three Crosses

Van DyckFlemish Baroque - Anthony van Dyck (1599 –1641)

Van Dyck - King Charles I

DUTCHRembrandt van Rijn, 1606–1669

IMPASTO

The Man with the Golden Helmet

- No longer attributed to Rembrandt.

- It is not a fake or a forgery.

- No longer attributed to Rembrandt.

- It is not a fake or a forgery.

Rembrandt – The Anatomy Lesson

Rembrandt

Abraham & Isaac, 1634

Rembrandt – St Peter in Prison

Rembrandt - Carcass of Beef 1643