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Baroque - The art style or art movement of the Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth

century. Although some features appear in Dutch art, the Baroque style was limited mainly to Catholic

countries. It is a style in which painters, sculptors, and architects sought emotion, movement, and

variety in their works. (pr. broke)

BAmong the general characteristics of baroque art is a sense of movement, energy,

and tension (whether real or implied). Strong contrasts of light and shadow

(TENEBRISM) enhance the dramatic effects of many paintings and sculptures.

Even baroque buildings, with their undulating walls and decorative surface

elements, imply motion. Intense spirituality is often present in works of baroque art;

in the Roman Catholic countries, for example, scenes of ecstasies, martyrdoms, or

miraculous apparitions are common. Infinite space is often suggested in baroque

paintings or sculptures; throughout the Renaissance and into the baroque period,

painters sought a grander sense of space and truer depiction of perspective in their

works. Realism is another integral feature of baroque art; the figures in paintings are

not types but individuals with their own personalities. Artists of this time were

concerned with the inner workings of the mind and attempted to portray the

passions of the soul on the faces they painted and sculpted. The intensity and

immediacy of baroque art and its individualism and detail—observed in such things

as the convincing rendering of cloth and skin textures—make it one of the most

compelling periods of Western art.

Before Baroque was Renaissance and Mannerism….

Carravagio

Martha and Mary Magdalene

c. 1598

Oil on canvas, 97,8 x 132,7 cm

Institute of Arts, Detroit

Judith Beheading Holofernes

c. 1598

Oil on canvas, 145 x 195 cm

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

St Jerome

1605-06

Oil on canvas,

118 x 81 cm

Monastery,

Montserrat

Rembrandt

Portrait of

Nicolaas

van

Bambeeck

1641

Oil on

canvas,

105,5 x 84

cm

Musées

Royaux des

Beaux-Arts,

Brussels

Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife

1655

Oil on canvas, 106 x 98 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

1632

Oil on canvas, 169,5 x 216,5 cm

Mauritshuis, The Hague

The Nightwatch

1642

Oil on canvas, 363 x 437 cm

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Vermeer

Girl Reading a Letter at

an Open Window

1657

Oil on canvas, 83 x 64,5

cm

Gemäldegalerie,

Dresden

Officer with a

Laughing Girl

c. 1657

Oil on canvas, 50,5 x

46 cm

Frick Collection, New

York

The Milkmaid

c. 1658

Oil on canvas, 45,5 x 41

cm

Rijksmuseum,

Amsterdam