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Wednesday 5 October 2016

Art History Week 6- Baroque Art

Baroque Art
-In fine art, the term Baroque (derived from the Portuguese 'barocco' meaning, 'irregular pearl or stone').
-Period that used exaggerated motion and clear.
-Easily interpreted of artistic style detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.
-Originating in Rome.
-During the period c.1590-1720.
-Embraced painting, and sculpture as well as architecture.
-After the idealism of the Renaissance (c.1400-1530), and the slightly 'forced' nature of Mannerism (c.1530-1600).
Painting
-Baroque signifies in painting is provided by the series of paintings executed by Peter Paul Rubens for Marie de Medici at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris (now at the Louvre),
-Baroque style featured "exaggerated lighting, intense emotions.

-Another frequently cited work of Baroque art is Bernini's Saint Theresa in Ecstasy for the Cornaro chapel in Saint Maria della Vittoria, which brings together architecture, sculpture, and theatre into one grand conceit.


Pietro da Cortona’s Divine Providence

Sculpture
-Often had had multiple ideal viewing angles.
-The characteristic Baroque sculpture added extra-sculptural elements, for example, concealed lighting, or water fountains.
- Aleijadinho in Brazil was also one of the great names of baroque sculpture.
-The architecture, sculpture and fountains of Bernini (1598–1680) give highly charged characteristics of Baroque style.
-He approached Michelangelo in his omnicompetence: Bernini sculpted, worked as an architect, painted, wrote plays, and staged spectacles.
-In the late 20th century Bernini was most valued for his sculpture, both for his virtuosity in carving marble and his ability to create figures that combine the physical and the spiritual.

Madonna of the Steps 

Stanislas Kostka




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