BAROQUE ART

BAROQUE ART

1. ARCHITECTURE

   • MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
     • Sense of movement
     • Curved cornices and broken pediments
     • Elliptical and oval shapes into floor designs
     • Effects of light and shade
     • Elaborately decorated and featured columns
     • Impressive domes
   • SPAIN
     • Regarded by high classes/general public
     • New churches built and chapels renovated
     • Spectacular facades
     • Regular and balanced
   • ARCHITECTS
     • -Juan Gómez de Mora and Novoa Pedro de Ribera

2. SCULPTURE

   • MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
     • Movement and naturalism
     • Action
     • Curved lines and numerous folds
     • Marble and bronze
     • Religious or mythological scenes
   • SCULPTORS
     • Bernini, Gregorio Fernandez, Narciso Tomé
   • SPAIN
     • Polychrome wood
     • Religious subjects
     • Realism
     • Dramatic with emaciated faces and experiencing pain

3. PAINTING

   • MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
     • Colour over drawing. Shapes. Bright colours, oil paints
       • Focus on light. Chiaroscuro, shades
         • Realism
           • Movement, foreshortening, asymmetry,undulating lines. Dramatic tension
   • SCHOOLS
     • ITALIAN
       • Tenebrism, contrast, dark backgrounds, light
         • Caravaggio
     • FRENCH
       • Academic art, rules of composition,-drawing. Naturalist-forceful
         • Louis Le Nain
     • FLEMISH
       • Aesthetics, colour over drawing, movement, sensuality
         • Paul Rubens
   • SPAIN GOLDEN AGE
     • Use of light- aerial perspective. Sfumato
       • Different planes-sources of light, intense
         • Realism, psychological depth, humanises
           • Diego Velazquez

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