Baroque

Baroque

1. 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

2. 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....

3. 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
       • French school
         • Poussin
         • Le Nain
         • La Tour
       • Flemish school
         • Rubens
   • Golden Age
     • The Netherlands
       • Few religious paintings
       • Portraits, landscapes, everyday life...
       • Vermeer
     • Spain
       • Religious paintings, portraits, still lifes...
       • Velázquez
         • Complex compositions, sources of light and planes
       • Zurbarán
         • Religious paintings and still lifes
       • Ribera
         • Tenebrism and drama