Baroque art in Europe

1. BAROQUE ARTBAROQUE ART
1717THTH
- 18- 18THTH
CENTURIESCENTURIES

2. WHERE DID IT APPEAR?
It started in Italy at the end of the 16th
century.
WHERE DOES “BAROQUE” COME FROM?
Pejorative word to define an exuberant and
exaggerated art in contrast with Renaissance
art and New Classicism.
CHRONOLOGY
Predominant art style during the 17th
century
and part of the 18th
century
COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF CATANIA,
ITALY

3. DIFFERENCES WITH RENAISSANCE ART
RENAISSANCE ART BAROQUE ART
-BALANCE
-IDEAL OF BEAUTY
-SIMPLICITY
-PROPORTIONS
-STRAIGHT LINES
-PREDOMINANCE OF DRAWING
OVER COLOUR AND LIGHT
-MOVEMENT
-REALISM IN REPRESENTATIONS
-COMPLEXITY
-INTEREST IN SURPRISING THE
AUDIENCE
- CURVED LINES, CONCAVE AND
CONVEX
-PREDOMINANCE OF COLOUR AND
LIGHT OVER DRAWING

4. BAROQUE ART
was…
A reflection of society
ART OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES
ART OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
(CATHOLIC COUNTRIES)
BOURGEOIS ART
(PROTESTANT COUNTRIES)

5. ARCHITECTURE
MAIN PURPOSE: CREATE SENSATION OF MOVEMENT IN BUILDINGS
USE OF
CURVED LINES
SPIRALS
ELLIPTIC AND OVAL FLOOR PLANS
SOLOMONIC COLUMNS
CONTRAST OF LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
RECESSES AND PROTRUSIONS
SPLIT PEDIMENTS
DECORATIVE ELEMENTS LIKE GARLANDS,
MEDALLIONS , ORGANIC MOTIFS…

6. SQUARE AND COLONNADE OF
SAINT PETER OF THE VATICAN
GIANLORENZO BERNINI
ITALY

7. BALDACHIN OF SAINT
PETER OF THE
VATICAN
SCALA REGIA OF
SAINT PETER OF THE
VATICAN
CHURCH OF SANT’
ANDREA AL QUIRINALE

8. CHURCH OF SAN CARLO
ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE
FRANCESCO BORROMINI

9. FRANCE
LE VAU, MANSART AND LE NÔTRE
HALL OF THE MIRRORS
VERSAILLES PALACE

10. VERSAILLES PALACE GARDENS

11. HÔTEL DES INVALIDES
LES NVALIDES CHURCH IN PARIS
LIBÉRAL BRUANT AND JACQUES HARDOUIN MANSART

12. SCULPTURE
MAIN PURPOSES: REPRESENTING MOVEMENT, CAPTURING FLEETING
MOMENTS, PROVOKING SURPRISE AND EMOTION TO
THE AUDIENCE.
MAIN FEATURES: USE OF CURVED LINES AND CLOTH FOLDS TO
INTENSIFY THE SENSATION OF MOVEMENT.

13. APOLLO AND DAPHNE,
GIANLORENZO BERNINI

14. ECSTASY OF SAINT THERESA, GIANLORENZO BERNINI

15. TOMB OF URBAN VIII,
GIANLORENZO
BERNINI

16. TOMB OF ALEXANDER VII,
GIANLORENZO BERNINI

17. FONTANA DI TREVI,
NICOLA SALVI

18. FONTANA DI TREVI,
NICOLA SALVI

19. FOUNTAIN OF THE NEWT, BERNINI

20. FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR RIVERS,
BERNINI

21. PAINTING
MAIN FEATURES
-USE OF OIL PAINTING
-PREDOMINANCE OF COLOUR AND LIGHT OVER
DRAWING
-CHIAROSCURO: CONTRASTS OF LIGHT AND
SHADOW
-REALISTIC REPRESENTATIONS
-MOVEMENT
-COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS (FORESHORTENED
FIGURES, ASYMMETRY, CURVED LINES…)
-INTEREST IN SHOCKING OR SURPRISING THE
AUDIENCE

22. THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL
ON THE WAY TO DAMASCUS
ITALY
CARAVAGGIO
THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT PETER

23. THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST
THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW

24. DEATH OF THE VIRGIN
JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES

25. THE THREE GRACES,
FLANDERS
PETER PAUL RUBENS
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS

26. THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI THE DUKE OF LERMA

27. HERCULES DRUNK, BEING LED AWAY
BY A NYMPH SATURN DEVOURING HIS SON

28. REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
22 YEARS OLD WITH TWO CIRCLES
63 YEARS OLD
More self-portraits:
http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rembrandt_self_portraits.htm
LOW COUNTRIES

29. ANATOMY LESSON OF DR. NICOLAES TULP, REMBRANDT

30. SYNDICS OF THE DRAPERS´ GUILD,
REMBRANDT

31. THE SLAUGHTERED OX,
REMBRANDT

32. THE NIGHT WATCH, REMBRANDT

33. THE LACEMAKER
JOHANNES VERMEER
GIRL READING A LETTER AT AN OPEN WINDOW

34. THE MILKMAID
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

35. ALLEGORY OF THE ART OF
PAINTING
THE GEOGRAPHER