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Page 1: Baroque and Rococo - Architecture & Interior Design and Rococo HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012) Baroque Characteristics of Baroque Architecture • Architecture of theatre • A strong

Baroque and Rococo

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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BaroqueCharacteristics of Baroque Architecture

• Architecture of theatre

• A strong movement in 17th & 18th centuries

• Elaborate ornaments and exuberant

• e.g. Beauty & The Beast

• Interplay of natural lighting, lighting & shadow

• spatially complex composition

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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BaroqueCharacteristics of Baroque Architecture

• Blurred physical boundaries between building elements

• Hiding of structural features

• Expansive curvaceous form – swirling movements to create dynamic movements

• Plasticity of materials

• Sense of mass, complex interplay of geometry

• Combination of architecture, painting & sculpture

Santa Maria Della Pace by Cortona

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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BaroqueCharacteristics of Baroque Art

• Expressive, playing with emotion

• Free/fluidity – dynamic composition

• Play with tone and

• Contrast – light and shadow with the intention to capture the emotion and motion (contrapposto)

• Engagement of viewer and picture

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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David by Bernini & Prometheus by Nicolas Sebastian Adam

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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Baroque

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

• Magisterial command of the site

• Sense of theatre

• Curve & dramatic lighting

• Emotional approach – faith

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)

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RococoRococo was a very playful and decorative style of art that started in France around 1700 before spreading throughout Europe. Pastel colours were frequently used and subjects tended to be related to the leisure pastimes and love scenes of rich people.

• Derived from the word “rocaille” which means misshapen pearl in French

Vivid colours were replaced by pastel shades; diffuse light flooded thebuilding volume; and violent surface relief was replaced by smoothflowing masses with emphasis only at isolated points. Churches andpalaces still exhibited an integration of the three arts, but the buildingstructure was lightened to render interiors graceful and ethereal. Interiorand exterior space retained none of the bravado and dominance of theBaroque but entertained and captured the imagination by intricacy and

subtlety.

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RococoCharacteristics

• 1720s – light curvilinear decoration

• Colour scheme lightened, mirror surfaces multiplied & angles softened

• Ornament – natural forms, branches, garlands, acanthus

• Abstract sinuosity – scrolis, interlace & arabesques

• Elegant, lighthearted, gay manner Residence at Wurzbug by

Johann Baltasar Neumann

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Rococo

• Spread to Germany & Austria

• Evanescent of Late Baroque – dynamism & geometric complexity of the 17th century Italian architecture & post Louis XIV France

• Official style of architecture –dignity & solemn grandeur of the new France

Country Pilgrimage Church by Johann Baltasar Neumann

HISTORY & CULTURE 1 (90012)