Baroque1600-1750

1600 the modern world

The old way a network of loyaltiesCITYCITYCITYCITY

The new way THE STATECITYCITYCITYCITY

This idea in art Versailles p. 278-79

BaroqueChange from church to absolute monarchyExemplified by Louis 14th and Versaillesan insult -grotesque- applied to design & architecturecomes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture

Baroque

comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama also: complex, ornamented, convoluted

Artists El Greco - Spain Caravaggio - Italy Bernini Italy Rubens - France Rembrant Holland Vermeer - Holland

El Greco,The Burial of Count Orgaz,1586p. 258

Detail, The Burial

Detail,The Burial

El GrecoView of Toledoc. 1597Oil on canvas47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.

El GrecoLaocoon1608-1614Oil on canvas142 x 193 cm2-faced woman

El Greco The Adoration of the Shepards

The Resurrection

CaravaggioThe Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1600KEY IMAGEp. 269

From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the Baroque

Caravaggio Murderous, difficult personality perhaps as notorious as famous worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching controversial style considered sacrilegious by some used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories followers called Caravaggisti reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century

CARAVAGGIO Bacchusc. 1597Oil on canvas37 3/8 x 33 1/2 in

CaravaggioAmor Vincit Omniac. 1601-02Oil on canvas75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in

CARAVAGGIOThe Crucifixion of Saint Peter1600-1601Oil on canvas90 1/2 x 70 in

Supper at Emmaus, c.1601

Caravaggio,The Conversion of St. Paul,1600-1601

Gentileschi,Judith Slaying Holofernes,1620FAMOUS FEMALE ARTIST;A CARAVAGGISTIp. 269; on final!

Bernini,Ecstasy of St. Teresa,1647-52KEY IMAGEpp. 267-268

Bernini,David,1623-24p. 266

Bernini,Baldacchino of St. Peters1624-33Gilt bronze,Height approx. 100 ft.p. 263

Vatican p. 265

Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656p. 260

SUMMARY BAROQUE ARTPOLITICS: emergence of The StateART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonalCHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-ReformationROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes tooIDEAS: scientific method

Not fortified(121.3 x 108.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Twisted poseCaravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da Amor Vincit Omnia c. 1601-02 Oil on canvas 75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in

CARAVAGGIO, Michelangelo Merisi da The Crucifixion of Saint Peter 1600-1601 Oil on canvas 90 1/2 x 70 in. Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popola, Rome

Sacrifice of Isaaco