Barroque painting

Barroque painting

1. Common features

   • The importance of colour over drawing
   • A focus on light (chiaroscuro thecnique). Allows dept on compositions.
   • Realism. Use of real life models.
   • The search of movement in compositions. Techniques such as foreshortening,

2. The italian school

   • Caravaggio, naturalist main painter. Father of terrorism.
   • Landscape paintings
   • Fresco paintings in church and domes ceilings.

3. The french school

   • Influenced by academic art (Poussin). Naturalist and forceful paintings (La Tour)

4. The Flemish school

   • Paul Rubens, main painter. Predominance of colour over drawing, movement and sensuality.

5. The golden age of Dutch Paiting

   • Netherlands. Absence of decoration in churches, newly-formed burgeoisie: allows new subjects. Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer=main Protestant Baroque paiting.

6. The golden Age of Spanish Paiting

   • Religious in nature. Still lifes, scenes from everyday life and mytological paintigs
     • Diego Velázquez. Philip IV court painter.
       • Masterful use of light and aerial perspective
       • Complex compositions. Different planes and sources of light.
       • Realism of scenes and psychological depth of the figures.
     • Francisco Zurbarán. Reality.
       • Religious paintings
       • Still lifes
       • Female saints (portrayed as noble women dressed in elegant dresses from the period.
     • José de Ribera
       • Tenerism. Drama of the Spanish Barroque style.
     • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Realism and idealism.
       • Religious scenes
       • Scenes from everyday life (featuring children and pícaros)
       • Reality in a tender, idealised light.

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