baroque art & architecture

Chapter 14: New Direction in Thought and Culture in the 16th

and 17th CenturyAdapted from: Ms. Susan M. Pojer

Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Baroque► 1600 – 1750.►Art historians use the term to “denote the style associated with 17th century painting, sculpture, and architecture.► From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”► Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.► The more dramatic, the better!

Baroque Style of Art & Architecture► Dramatic, emotional.

► Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.► Counter-Reformation art.► Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.► Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions.► Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.

Famous Baroque Artists/WorksMichelangelo Caravaggio

(1573-1610)Gian Lorenzo Bernini

(1598-1680)Peter Paul Rubens (1577-

1640)

St. Peter’s Basilica (Rome)Palace at Versailles

St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican

City

by Gialorenzo

Bernini

Church of Santiago de Compostella, Spain

Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany

“The Assumption of the Virgin Mary”

Egid Quirim Asam, 1692-1750

Altar of Mercy, Germany, 1764

“St. Francis in Ecstasy”Caravaggio, 1595

“The Flagellatio

n of Christ”

by Caravaggi

o

“David and Goliath” by Caravaggio

“Salome with the Head of the Baptist”

by Caravaggio

“The Cardsharps”Caravaggio, 1595

“The Dead Christ Mourned”

Annibale Carracci, 1603

“The Virgin Appearing

to St. Hyacinthe”

Lodovico Carracci

1594

The Death of the Virgin, Caravaggio, 1606

Purchased by the Duke of Mantua at the request of Peter Paul Rubens

“The Elevation of the Cross” by Peter Paul Reubens1610-11

“The Descent From the Cross”Peter Paul Rubens1614

“A Bust of Louis XIV”Bernini

“Louis XIV”By Hyacinthe

Rigauld

“A Bust of Cardinal Richelieu”

By Bernini

The Return of the prodigal son

By Rembrandt (1669)