Baroque Art

Baroque Art

1. 17th - 18th centuries

   • Artistic and cultural movement
     • Main characteristics
       • Different to the Renaissance
         • More emotions and complexity
           • Curved, concave and convex shapes
         • Shapes formed by colour and light
         • Realism to highlight emotions
         • Drama and symbolism
           • Theatrical backdrops (feelings and emotions)
     • Religious use
       • Protestantism
         • Bourgeoisie commissioned works
         • Everyday life portraits...
       • Catholicism
         • Propaganda for the Counter-Reformation
         • Representation of miracles to stimulate faith and piety
         • Decorated churches that represented the gateway of heaven
           • Grandeur and splendour
     • Political use
       • Magnificence of absolute monarchs
       • Mansions = royal power

2. Architecture

   • Sense of movement
     • Curves and spirals
       • Curved cornices and broken pediments
     • Floor designs
       • Elliptical and oval shapes
     • Lights and shades
   • Interiors
     • Carefully decorated
       • Columns and domes
   • Main architects
     • Churhces, squares and fountains in Rome
       • Bernini
       • Borromini
   • Spain
     • High classes and general public commissioned works
     • Beautiful Façades
     • Cathedral chapels renovated
     • More regular and balanced structures

3. Sculpture

   • Movement
     • Action
     • Curved lines and folds of the clothing
   • Marble and bronze
   • Religious/Mythological escenes
   • Main sculptors
     • Bernini
     • Girardon
   • Spain
     • Polychrome wood
     • Importance of religion
     • Dramatic realism
       • Emaciated faces and pain
     • Main authors
       • Cano, De Mena, de Churriega, Tomé....

4. Painting

   • Colour over drawing
     • Bright and warm colours
     • Oil paints
   • Lights and shades
     • Chiaroscuro
     • Depth and create shapes
   • Realism
   • Movement
     • Asymmetry
     • Undulating lines
   • Catholicism
     • Religious and royal subjects
       • Italian school
         • Caravaggio
           • Tenebrism (contrast of dark backgrounds and sources of light)
       • French school
         • Poussin
           • Strict rules of composition and drawing
         • Le Nain
           • Naturalism
         • La Tour
           • Chiaroscuro
       • Flemish school
         • Rubens
           • Predominance of colours over drawing
   • Golden Age
     • The Netherlands
       • Few religious paintings
       • Portraits, landscapes, everyday life...
       • Vermeer
         • Light and shades
     • Spain
       • Religious paintings, portraits, still lifes...
       • Velázquez
         • Use of light, aerial perspective and sfumato
         • Complex compositions, sources of light and planes
           • More intensity
         • Humanises his paintings
           • Feeling conection
       • Zurbarán
         • Religious paintings and still lifes
         • Simplicity, realism and perfection through the use of light
       • Murillo
         • Religious scenes, genre paintings, everyday life with children and pícaros
         • Idealised light and reality
       • Ribera
         • Tenebrism and drama

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