Baroque1600-1750
1600 the modern world
The old way a network of loyaltiesCITYCITYCITYCITY
The new way THE STATECITYCITYCITYCITY
This idea in art Versailles p. 278-79
BaroqueChange from church to absolute monarchyExemplified by Louis 14th and Versaillesan insult -grotesque- applied to design & architecturecomes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture
Baroque
comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama also: complex, ornamented, convoluted
Artists El Greco - Spain Caravaggio - Italy Bernini Italy Rubens - France Rembrant Holland Vermeer - Holland
El Greco,The Burial of Count Orgaz,1586p. 258
Detail, The Burial
Detail,The Burial
El GrecoView of Toledoc. 1597Oil on canvas47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.
El GrecoLaocoon1608-1614Oil on canvas142 x 193 cm2-faced woman
El Greco The Adoration of the Shepards
The Resurrection
CaravaggioThe Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1600KEY IMAGEp. 269
From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the Baroque
Caravaggio Murderous, difficult personality perhaps as notorious as famous worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching controversial style considered sacrilegious by some used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories followers called Caravaggisti reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century
CARAVAGGIO Bacchusc. 1597Oil on canvas37 3/8 x 33 1/2 in
CaravaggioAmor Vincit Omniac. 1601-02Oil on canvas75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in
CARAVAGGIOThe Crucifixion of Saint Peter1600-1601Oil on canvas90 1/2 x 70 in
Supper at Emmaus, c.1601
Caravaggio,The Conversion of St. Paul,1600-1601
Gentileschi,Judith Slaying Holofernes,1620FAMOUS FEMALE ARTIST;A CARAVAGGISTIp. 269; on final!
Bernini,Ecstasy of St. Teresa,1647-52KEY IMAGEpp. 267-268
Bernini,David,1623-24p. 266
Bernini,Baldacchino of St. Peters1624-33Gilt bronze,Height approx. 100 ft.p. 263
Vatican p. 265
Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656p. 260
SUMMARY BAROQUE ARTPOLITICS: emergence of The StateART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonalCHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-ReformationROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes tooIDEAS: scientific method
Not fortified(121.3 x 108.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Twisted poseCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Amor Vincit Omnia c. 1601-02 Oil on canvas 75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in
CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da The Crucifixion of Saint Peter 1600-1601 Oil on canvas 90 1/2 x 70 in. Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popola, Rome
Sacrifice of Isaaco
