Baroque

Day and Night: Escher’s Turning Point Tegan Sorensen V00885279 AHVS 260 Due: November 21st, 2017 M. C. Escher is an iconic artist, but more iconic than the artist is his art. From detailed landscapes to mind-boggling impossibilities, he worked in woodcuts, wood engravings, and lithographs. These allowed for extreme contrasts and impeccable detail. While many of his works could be named as iconic, Day and Night marked a significant change in Escher’s artistic journey. From its context and…

Art throughout the world reflects new ideas of the time and preserves the past historically marking each new era. A shift in the way the world is organized is almost always immediately followed by a new perspective that changes the way people create and receive art. Art has endless capability to be felt, observed, and examined in new ways that reveal a story behind each piece that weaves another picture of life during that century. Exploring art movements not only reveals the history of the time…

Las Meninas painted in 1656 with oil on canvas, is a depiction of everyday life of the royal Spanish family where Diego Velazquez was able to show a real moment in time, avoiding idealism and capturing truth. Velazquez was a court painter of the royal family, King Philip IV and Queen Maria Anna, which he worked hard at to achieve, and wanted to show this achievement to others. When viewing the painting the obvious focal point is Princess Margarita who stands out from the center, dressed in…

The Battle of San Romano was created by Paolo Uccello in c. 1438-40. It is currently at the National Gallery in London. This artwork’s medium is egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar panel. The painting depicts part of the the Battle of San Romano where the Florentines fight against the Sienese, specifically when Florentine’s ally, Micheletto da Cotignola counterattacks the enemy. This painting was one of the three panels of the Battle of San Romano. We can see the main figure,…

Both artwork portrait is almost identical but different in their own way. As both have a similar gesture, position, and concept from the view of the painting. Different between both, is the background, the fame, the figure that in the portrait. The St. Matthew from the gospel book of Charlemagne (fig.10.13) presentation show that this is a portrait of roman painting because of the natural and solidity with inhabit the setting of the landscape. It also has a halo on the person who presume to be…

Vivaldi was an Italian composer who created many pieces in the Baroque period. Vivaldi was born in Venice and is a recognizable composer that lived during the baroque period. Vivaldi became a priest in 1703, which is why he is called the red priest. Vivaldi stopped his preaching because of tightness in the chest, among other complaints. Vivaldi’s most widely known concerto is The 4 Seasons, which has a recognizable melody. The Baroque period was one of the largest periods in music, which changed…

The Baroque period is known for some of the greatest advances in the use of tenebrism, painterly techniques, and dynamic expressionism. For this historical study, the main category that will be focused on will be the Italian Baroque, more specifically the work of the artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The Italian Baroque Period lasted from the late 16th century to the early 18th century. Gentileschi was a female artist who worked around the period of 1593 to ca. 1652. In order to narrow down the…

writing evolved from the middle to late Baroque (ca. 1680– 1730). This paper will examine the development of the instrumental concerto during the Baroque, focusing on analysis of the works and contributions to the form by Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) and Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). Representing a span of one generation in time, and working in different musical centers within Italy, Corelli and Vivaldi each made major contributions to the development of the Baroque concerto grosso and solo…

Shakespeare was to literature. By many standards, it was he that gave the Baroque its splendor, and it was he that most others attempted to emulate. He is known as a crucial figure in the history of music, as he was one of the main composers to transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period music styles. As such, here referred to the old, Renaissance style as the “prima prattica”, and the newer style of the Baroque as the “seconda…

Pair Four: Senufo Equestrian, wood, (19 century) [Location: British Museum] and Equestrian Portrait of Charlemagne, bronze (9 century) [Location: Louvre, Paris] When art is from two different time period and two different cultures it is thought that the two pieces when compared would not have much in common. However, that is hardly ever the case; they can have similaries in meanings and cultural significance. With the help of the readings from “Icon” and “Art Through the Ages”, along with the…