Baroque

commissioned by many such as the Duke of Savoy and the Emperor Charles VI. Ricci’s main study was in the style of grand manner fresco painting’s (NGA.GOV). His painting Perseus Confronting Phineus with the Head of Medusa was created during the period of the Baroque time. Ricci’s work of art is an oil on canvas painting and has the dimensions of 64.1X77.2 cm. This painting is currently on view at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. This painting is located in the museums south pavilion, gallery…

Claudio Monteverdi is an Italian composer from the Baroque period who was influential in the transition between Renaissance and Baroque music. Despite composing in all musical styles and genres of his time, Monteverdi defied past generation 's standards of composition. For example, he did not follow the rules governing the resolution of dissonances in that period. Like other composers of the Baroque period, Monteverdi had a big impetus to imitate reality through his music; he tried to humanize…

Bach’s stay in Weimar was characterized by his keyboard and orchestral works. He learned to write dramatic openings and employ the dynamic motor rhythms and harmonic schemes found in the music of the Italians. This is a direct influence to the progressive type of music that Beethoven is so well known for. Though his stay in Weimar was influential, it was also short lived. In 1717 he moved to secure a job at Cothen. After the move, it didn’t take long for Bach’s life to be changed forever. In…

Adam Elsheimer, a German artist of the Baroque period born in Frankfurt in 1578, was a strikingly innovative artist influencing several key figures of the Baroque art. Under the tutelage of Phillipp Uffenbach, a skilled Frankfurt artist whose Italian experience garnered him the status of a sought-after replicator of famous Italian paintings back in Germany ('Adoration of the Magi' among others), Elsheimer spent his formative years learning the fundamentals of German Renessaince art. Around 1598…

court moved from Versailles back to their old Parisian mansions, redecorating their homes using softer, more feminine designs and more modest materials than that of the late King’s baroque style. Instead of surrounding themselves with precious metals and rich colors, materials that define the previously dominant Baroque style, the French aristocracy now lived in intimate interiors adorned with asymmetry, curves, elegance, and the new paintings of French Rococo of daily life and courtly love.…

The musicale had a lot of variety in the performance of the songs. The pieces ranged from being purely instrumental to art songs. There was also a mixture of music from the Baroque through the Modern era. The assorted musical periods and instruments contributed to a more varied Musicale. The group pieces at the beginning and end of the Musicale sounded the most contemporary. “On stranger Tides” was a good choice to start with because it was from a popular movie with which most of the audience…

that most people can relate to today. But the two major periods of music in this piece is the classical and baroque style music. Although “classical” is now a common term to describe instrumental music, it is actually a time period for music: mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. The most common composer and the one used in the studies ahead is Mozart. Just before that, from 1600 to 1750 was the Baroque period, the most common composer being Bach (Johnson, 1). Although there…

reformation a new era emerged called the Baroque Era. In the Baroque Era new styles of art and music emerged as well as new painters supporting the reformation and showing the world through their perspective. Baroque Era paintings were really important during this period as they showed dramatic use of color, contrasts between light and dark, light…

~ From the perspective of a Lutheran Baroque Composer in 1680 Dearest Friend, How curious is it, looking dimensionally, how retroactive we are as musicians. It seems as though the other forms of expression such as art, literature, philosophy, and architecture seem to predate all our efforts in the fine arts. I am thinking directly to the days of Martin Luther, that initial step into protestant reformation. Thus came from the manifested power of the Catholic Church the words of the Disputation…

followed his method to create their sonatas. The first movement of the modern sonata is usually in binary form. Binary form is a musical form that relates with two sections that are repeated. It is performed at A-A-B-B. It was popular during the Baroque Period and was used to create movements of the keyboard sonatas. The first movement has the…