| Slide2 : Baroque 1600 – 1750.
From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”
Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.
The more dramatic, the better! |
| Slide3 : Baroque Style of Art & Architecture 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. |
| Slide5 : St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Gialorenzo Bernini |
| Slide6 : Church of Santiago de Compostella, Spain |
| Slide7 : Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany |
| Slide8 : Interior of a Dominican Church in Vilnius |
| Slide10 : “St. Francis in Ecstasy” Caravaggio, 1595 |
| Slide11 : “The Flagellation of Christ” by Caravaggio |
| Slide12 : “David and Goliath” by Caravaggio |
| Slide13 : “Salome with the Head of the Baptist” by Caravaggio |
| Slide14 : “The Cardsharps” Caravaggio, 1595 |
| Slide15 : “Self-Portrait: The Artist” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638-1639 The first woman accepted into the Academy of Drawing in Florence |
| Slide16 : “Judith Beheading Holofernes” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612-1621 |
| Slide17 : “Susanna & the Elders” Artemisia Gentileschi, 1610 |
| Slide18 : “The Dead Christ Mourned” Annibale Carracci, 1603 |
| Slide19 : “The Virgin Appearing to St. Hyacinthe” Lodovico Carracci 1594 |
| Slide20 : “Joseph’s Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob” Diego Velázquez, 1630 |
| Slide21 : “Christ on the Cross” Diego Velázquez, 1632 |
| Slide22 : “Las Meninas” Diego Velázquez 1656 |
| Slide23 : “St. Francis in Meditation” Francisco de Zurbarán |
| Slide24 : “St. Bonaventure on His Deathbed” Francisco de Zurbarán, 1629 |
| Slide25 : “The Elevation of the Cross” by Peter Paul Reubens 1610-11 |
| Slide26 : “The Lamentation” by Peter Paul Reubens 1609-11 |
| Slide27 : “Battle of the Amazons” Peter Paul Reubens |
| Slide28 : “A Village Fête” Peter Paul Reubens |
| Slide29 : “The Garden of Love” Peter Paul Reubens, 1630-32 |
| Slide30 : “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila” by Gianlorenzo Bernini 1647-52 |
| Slide31 : “A Bust of Louis XIV” by Bernini |
| Slide32 : “A Bust of Cardinal Richelieu” by Bernini |
| Slide33 : “Louis XVI” Hyacinthe Rigauld |
| Slide35 : Baroque Furniture |
| Slide36 : Baroque Furniture |
| Slide37 : A Baroque Room |
| Slide38 : Giovanni Francesco Marchini, 1702-1736 |