BAROQUE ART

BAROQUE ART

1. ARCHITECTURE

   • Movement
     • Decorated interiors
     • Broken pediments
       • Curves
       • Spirals
     • Floor designs
       • Elliptical shapes
       • Oval shapes
     • Light and shade
     • Curved cornices
     • Solomonic columns
     • Impressive domes
   • Spain
     • Spectacular façades
     • Regular and balanced structures
     • New and renovated churches
   • Examples
     • Architects
       • Bernini
       • Borromini
     • Buildings
       • Palace of Versailles
       • Basilica of St.Peter

2. PAINTING

   • Characteristics
     • Colour over drawing
     • Focus on light
       • Chiaroscuro
     • Ralism
     • Movement in the compositions
       • Foreshortening
       • Asymetry
       • Undulating lines and people in motion
   • Italian School
     • Tenebrism
     • Landscapes
     • Fresco
     • Carabaggio
   • French School
     • Academic art
     • Naturalist and forceful
     • Le Nain (Peasant Family in an interior)
   • Flemish school
     • Predominance of colour over drawing
     • Movement and sensuality
     • Peter Paul Rubens (The 3 Graces)
   • Golden Age
     • Dutch painting
       • Absence of decoration in churches
       • Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
     • Spanish painting
       • Religious scenes, portraits, still lifes, scenes from everyday life and mythological paintings.
       • Velázquez
         • Master of light
         • Las Meninas
       • Zurbarán
         • Representation of reality
         • Still Life with Vessels
       • Murillo
         • Realism and idealism
           • Two Women at a Window
       • Ribera
         • Tenebrism
         • The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

3. SCULPTURE

   • Movement
     • Figures in the middle of an action
     • Unstable and likely to fall
     • Curved lines
   • Naturalism
     • Numerous folds of the clothing
     • Religious and mythological scenes
   • Materials
     • Marble
     • Bronze
   • Examples
     • Sculptors
       • Bernini
       • Girardon
     • Sculptures
       • Apollo and Daphne
       • Apollo and the Nymphs
   • Spain
     • Polychrome wood
     • Religious subjects
       • Altarpieces
       • Images of processions
     • Realism
       • Increasingly dramatic
       • Subjects with emaciated faces and experiencing pain and suffering

4. SPIRIT

   • New aesthetics
     • Motion and complexity
     • Light and colour
     • Realism
     • Drama and symbolism
     • Theatrical backdrops
   • Religious art
     • Propaganda for the new Counter-Reformation
     • Miracles
     • Mystic ecstasy
     • Martyrs
     • Gateway to Heaven