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Baroque: the Ornate Age
Baroque Art succeeded in marrying the advanced techniques and grand scale of the High Renaissance to the intensity and emotion of Mannerism
Baroque Artist built upon past discoveries in painting and developed many different personalities such as Italian Realism or French Flamboyance but always had one common element sensitivity to and absolute mastery of light to achieve the maximum emotional impact
Origins
Baroque began in Rome around 1600 when Catholic Popes financed magnificent new cathedrals and grand works to display the faiths triumphant Counter Reformation
It was meant to attract new worshippers by overwhelming them with the theatrical
Baroque then spread to France where absolute monarchs like Louis XIII and Louis XIV spend vast sums of money to glorify themselves and impress visitors to their palaces.
Italian Baroque
Italian Artist pioneered the Baroque style before it spread to the rest of Europe
Italian Baroque Art had an emphasis on emotion rather than rationality and dynamism
Three artist one a painter {Caravaggio}, a sculptor {Bernini}, and an architect {Borromini} represent the best of Italian Baroque
Caravaggio
Lived from 1571 to 1610
Injected new life into Italian Painting
Took realism to a new point, paining bodies in a realistic down and dirty style , unlike the pale Mannerist phantoms
He secularized religious art, making saints and miracles seem like ordinary people and everyday life.



Bernini
Lived 1598 – 1610
Greatest sculptor of the Italian Baroque Period
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Borromini
In Architecture he is the equal of Caravaggio
Created undulating walls that created a sense of being strobe-lit
He combined never before linked shapes in a startling fashion
French Baroque
France was the most powerful country in Europe from 1600 to 1700.
Kings like Louis XIV tapped the finest artist to glorify his monarchy
French Flamboyance
Baroque spread to France where absolute monarchs like Louis XIII and Louis XIV spend vast sums of money to glorify themselves and impress visitors to their palaces.
Louis XIV’s Versailles and its gardens are an example of the Baroque Architecture and landscape design.
French Baroque art was not religiously themed but rather derived from Greek and Roman influences
Often the paintings were populated by pagan deities (Gods)
Versailles
La Tour
Born in Northwestern France
His style is unique in its depiction of common subject matter.
His work is mostly Genre (Daily Life) or religious scenes
He was a follower of Caravaggio
His paintings can be identified by his use of lighting in his nocturnal scenes the paintings are lighted by candles or torches which are hidden behind another object or the subjects hand



The Flemish Baroque
The Southern Netherlands {Flanders} or what we call Belgium today remained Catholic, while the Northern portion of the Netherlands {Holland} became a Protestant region
The Flemish Baroque Period is the story of one man Peter Paul Rubins (1577 – 1640)
Rubins
A rare creative genius
He spoke six languages
Energy was the secret to his art
He completed more than 2,000 paintings
One painting symbolizes his style in religious painting and established Rubins as Europe’s best religious painter
The Decent from the Cross (Rubins 1612)


Van Dyck
Established as a painter at age 16
Worked with Rubins for a few years
People found his arrogant and snobbish
His specialty was portraits
He was able to turn official images of royalty into real human beings
His style of posing royals in settings of classical columns and bucolic countryside's appeared to stop the action rather than look like a posed painting and gave a sense of humanity to the work




Spanish Baroque
Spain’s major contribution to the world of art was Diego Velazquez
He was a master painter by age 18
He painted Royal Portraits that were masterpieces of visual realism
He depicted the world as it appeared to his eye
He once painted Pope Innocent X, who exclaimed that the picture was to truthful and lifelike



Dutch Baroque
Holland {Northern Netherlands} was an independent, democratic, Protestant country
The strict Calvinist Protestant Churches forbade religious art in the church buildings
All the usual people who purchased art, churches, monarchs, and nobility; seemed to be absent in this region.
Artist were left at the mercy of the market place to earn a living
Fortunately there was a wealthy middle class of merchants who had a mania for art.
Vermeer
Considered second only to Rembrandt among Dutch artist
He is masterful in his use of light and color
His paintings had a sense of stability and calm
He painted neat spare rooms, and simple domestic scenes



Rembrandt
The best knlown painter in the the western world
He had to style periods
Early
Mostly portraits with a few religious scenes
The Bible scenes were intricately detailed and lit dramaticly
Late
Gave up portraits and worked on more biblical and psychological subjects
Used more browns and reds
Had a theme of loneliness
Graduations of light to convey mood, character, and emotion