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Counter Reformation

Baroque in Italy and Spain.


Purification of the Catholic church in response to the protestant reform

Council of Trent

reaffirmed traditional Catholic doctrine and recommended reforms of liturgy, church practices, and works of art.

Piazza

town square

Colonnade

Row of columns

Baldaccino

Built by Bernini


The canopy for the main altar of st. Peter's, directly under Michaelangelo's dome

Tenebrism

"The Dark Manner"


Style of Painting started by Caravaggio's, with dark backgrounds and dramatic lighting

Caravaggisti

People who were influenced by Caravaggio

Classical landscape

The ideal environment

Urban VIII

Pope, and patron of Bernini (sculpture and architect who did the Baldaccino)

Jesuits

"Society of Jesus"


Most ambitious and energetic religious order in the Catholic church. Started as part of the counter reformation

Saint Ignatius Loyola

Founded the Jesuits

Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul, Baroque in Italy


We know more about his life from his police record


Most influential painter at start of Baroque


Style of dark background, and intense lighting spread to Holland, France and Spain

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant With the Head of Holofernes, Baroque in Italy


Story from the apocrypha, Judith was a heroine in the Catholic church


Artemisia was a caravaggisti

Annibale Carracci, Farnese Gallery, Baroque in Italy


represent the classical style. Show the love of the Gods. Flat Painting


Caracci brothers and cousin started the first art school


Annibale Caracci, Flight into Egypt, Baroque in Italy


Classical landscape, or the ideal setting

Guido Reni, Aurora, Baroque in Italy


Flat Painting

Guercino, Aurora, Baroque in Italy


Illusionistic painting becomes popular. The architecture is a painted illusion

Pietro da Cartona, Triumph of the Barbernini, Baroque in Italy


Allegory of divine providence


Cardinal Barbernini becoming pope with symbols of Barbernin Bees, laurel wreath, and keys


Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Triumph of the Name of Jesus


Combines Architecture, sculpture, and painting into one illusion; heaven appears to spill into the building

Carlo Maderno, Facade of St. Peter's, Baroque in Italy


Changed Greek cross plan to the latin cross plan

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Piazza St. Peter's, Baroque in Italy


Colonnade

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Baldacchino, Baroque in Italy


High Alter of St. Peter's

Francesco Borromini, San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, Baroque in Italy


Most infulential Italian Baroque architect. He made achitecture into sculpture: curved line, formable

Francesco Borromini, San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane Dome, Baroque in Italy


Francesco Borromini, Saint Ivo, Baroque in Italy


Curved lines


Borromini took his own life, and therefore didn't complete much work

Francesco Borromini, Saint Ivo Dome, Baroque in Italy


Dome and drums aren't round

Guarino Guarini, Dome of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Baroque in Italy


Only has 3 pendentives

Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, Baroque in Italy


greatest sculptor of the Baroque


Counter reformation said religious art had to be appropriate, so David has a cloth covering him

Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Baroque in Italy


combines sculpture, architecture, and painting into one illusion.


Bernini designed the whole wall, not just the sculpture.

Jusepe de Ribera, The Club-footed Boy, Baroque in Spain


Jusepe gave dignity to the common people


influenced by Caravaggio's realism

Diego Velazquez, The Maids of Honor, Baroque in Spain


Most famous Spanish Baroque painter, did royal portraits


Gives homage to art and the common people; shows servants and the artist

Francisco de Zurbaran, Saint Serapion, Baroque in Spain


Nicknamed the Spanish Caravaggio

Barolome-Esteban Murillo, The Immaculate Conception, Baroque in Spain


Most endearing image of the Madonna. Mary is the ideal woman

Flanders

Made famous by Rubens

Grand Manor Portrait

Snooty pose made popular by Anthony Van Dyck who painted Charles I dismounted

Genre

Common, everyday life and people

Kunstkammer

Art room. People became wealthy through trade, and had huge collections from around the world

Etching

Scratch, varnish, acid bath

Drypoint

Scratch, burr, ink

Camera Obscura

Dark room with a hole for light creates an upside down image

Absolutism

Centralized state ruled by an autocrat with unlimited powers. Manifested in grand and dramatic art to display power.

Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival of Marie De'Medici at Marseilles, Baroque in Flanders.


Most Famous Painter of the Baroque


Painted royalty in multiple countries, and had students help with work

Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I Dismounted, Baroque in Flanders


Court painter for Charles I, and assistant to Rubens.


Invented the Grand Manor pose.

Jacob Jordaens, The King Drinks, Baroque in Flanders


Replaced Van Dyck as court painter

Frans Halls, The Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard, Baroque in Holland


Great Dutch portrait painter


Civic guards created when Holland declared independence, later became like popular clubs

Judith Leyster, Self-portrait, Baroque in Holland


Student of Frans Halls, early famous female artist

Rembrandt Van Rijn, The Night Watch (The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq), Baroque in Holland


Greatest portrait artist in history. Did over 60 self-portraits

Rembrandt Van Rijn, The Hundred Guilder Print, Baroque in Holland


Greatest printer in Etching technique


Did many religious drawings, prints, and paintings

Jacob van Ruisdael, The Jewish Cemetary, Baroque in Holland


Jews fled to Holland for religious freedom, formed communities called ghettos

Jan Steen, The Feast of St. Nicholas, Baroque in Holland


Van Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, Baroque in Holland


Possibly used a camera obscura. Art of photographic realism

George De La Tour, Joseph the Carpenter, Baroque in France


Influenced by Carravaggio

Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women, Baroque in France


Most Famous french Baroque painter


Influenced by classical style

Claude Lorrain, A Pastoral Landscape, Baroque in France


One of the most influencial landscape painters of the period


bathed landscape in atmospheric gold glow

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, Baroque in France

East facade of the Louvre, Baroque in France


Classically influenced, double columns

Palace of Versailles, Baroque in France

Halle of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, Baroque in France

Inigo Jones, Bangqueting House, Whitehall Palace, Baroque in England


Brought classical style to England

Sir Christopher Wren, Saint Paul's Cathedral, Baroque in England


Dome influenced by St Peter's (Michaelangelo)


Towers inluenced by Borromini


Double columns influenced by the Louvre

Salon

Small, decorated rooms for social gatherings

vedute

large painting of a cityscape or landscape

Antoine Wattau, Return from Cythera, Rococo


Excellent draftsman, good at drawing

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing, Rococo


Clergyman in the background, The girl is the mistress of the man under her.

William Hogarth, The Orgy, Scene III of the Rake's Progress, Rococo


satyr of the importance of morality and values

Egid Quirin Asam, The Assumption of the Virgin, Rococo


influenced by The Ecstasy of St Teresa

Balthasar Neumann, Kaisersaal, Wurzburg, Rococo


influenced by Boromini

Giambattista Tiepolo, Ceiling Fresco, Kaisersaal, Rococo


Last of the great ceiling painters


No longer illusionistic