Baroque art

Baroque art

1. Architecture

   • Desire to incorporate a sense of movement into the designs of new buildings.
   • Curved cornices and broken pediments forming curves and spirals.
   • Movement was exaggerated through the effects of light and shade.
   • The interiors were elaborately decorated and featured columns and impressive domes.
   • The great architects Bernini and Borromini turned Rome into the capital of Baroque architecture, designing severan structures that transformed the city.
   • A typical Baroque church included a single nave, a dome and side wings that served as separate chapels. The façade was covered with curved lines, which gave a sense of movement.

2. Sculpture

   • Sculptors wanted to represent realism and naturalism.
   • They tried to capture figures in the middle of an action -> unstable and likely to fall over at any moment.
   • The use of curved lines and numerous details on the clothes made the sculptures even more dynamic.
   • Most popular materials -> marble and bronze.
   • Most popular themes -> religious and mythological.
   • The sculptor who best reflected and combined this characteristics was Bernini.
   • Intense feelings and emotions.
   • Movement, energy and vitality. In complex positions.
   • Folds in clothes and gestures were used to give light and shadow.

3. Painting

   • Importance of color over drawing. Patches of colour to create shapes. Bright and warm colours. Oil painting.
   • A focus on light. Using techniques like chiaroscuro to give depht..
   • Realist and classicist models. They aimed to show things as they really were.
   • The search for movement in compositions, using several techniques.
   • How can we recognise baroque styled painting?
     • Emotional intensity.
       • A captured moment in time.
         • Dynamic, unstable.
           • Spiral or diagonal; not a stright painting.
             • Energy and movement.
               • Real, not a planned situation.
                 • Effects of light.

4. Characteristics of the Baroque art in general

   • Drmatic
     • Real emotions and feelings.
       • Dramatic use of color
         • Control light and shadows.
           • Various uses of lines and shapes.
             • Many details.

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