Bernini: Apollo and Daphne,

1624

Is there a baroque style and what is it?

artistic developments:"sculptural" rather than painterly: emphasis

on non-linear movementdepiction of extreme emotion

allegorical and theatricaltenebrism

"dynamism, theatricality, and elaborate ornamentation, all used to spectacular

effect..." (p. 670)

Italy in the 17th Century:

Pt. 1: Sculpture

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Part 2: Architecture

Revising St. Peter's after the Reformationfacade by Carlo Maderno, 1606-12

piazza and colonnade by Bernini (completed, 1666)

dome: Giacomo della Porta's dome (as built) compared with Michelangelo's second design (on the left)

Ecstacy of St. Theresa (Coronaro Chapel), 1645-1652

David, 16235'7" ht.

Bernini:Pluto and Persephone, 1621-2

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Borromini: San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane,

1638-41; 1665-7

made for the Discalced Trinitarians

Bernini's architectural sculpture in St. Peter's:

Baldacchino with view toward Cathedra Petri (reliquary throne of St. Peter)

1624-33

solomonic columnsht. of baldacchino = 100 ft.

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Guarini: Chapel of the Holy Shroud,

Turin, 1667-94

San Ivo della Sapienza

1642-50

a chapel for a theological university

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Artemisia Gentileschi: Danae, c. 1612, oil on copper, 16 x 20-5/8"

the Cerasi Chapel:

Martyrdom of St. Peter (left wall)Conversion of St. Paul (right wall)

1600-01

each: oil/canvas, 7'6 x 5'9

Caravaggio: Calling of St. Matthew, 1600-01, for the Contarelli chapel, oil/canvas, 11'1 x 11'5

Pt. 3: Painting

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Juan Sanchez Cotan: Still Life with Game Fowl, ca 1600/03; oil/canvas, 2'2 x 2'10

Francisco de Zurburan:

St. Serapion

1628o/c

3'11 x 3'4

Spain

Giovanna Garzoni: Plate of Figs

c. 1651-62, gouache on parchment

La Pittura (Self-Portrait as the

Allegory of Painting)

1630, o/c, 38x29"

Judith beheading Holofernes, ca 1620 (left) and 1612 (right)

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baroque painting as a response to the Renaissance:

Ren. clarity and order versus Baroque tenebrism and drama

Ren. stasis versus Baroque movement

extreme naturalism and extreme psychology

Las Meninas (Maids of Honor)

1656

oil on canvas

10'5 x 9'

Velázquez: The Surrender of Breda, June 2, 16251635, oil on canvas, 10'1 x 12'

Velazquez: Water Carrier of Seville

ca. 1619, o/c, 44 x 32 in.

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