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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.
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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
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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
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Slide35 : Baroque Furniture
Slide36 : Baroque Furniture
Slide37 : A Baroque Room
Slide38 : Giovanni Francesco Marchini, 1702-1736