17TH /18TH CENTURY

ART BLOSSOMS

BAROQUE

BaroqueBaroque► 1600 – 1750.

► From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”

► Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.

► The more dramatic, the better!

Baroque Style of Art & Architecture

Baroque Style of Art & Architecture

► Dramatic, emotional.

► Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.

► Counter-Reformation art.

► Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.

► Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions.

► Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.

Sicilian Baroque: San Benedetto in Catania.

Santa Susanna: Carlo Maderno

Sant'Andrea al Quirinale (1658),

Compiled by: Arch Maria Mynn

Porciuncula-Alfonso8

Façade of

Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, bearing cardinal Pamphili crest.

Compiled by: Arch Maria Mynn

Porciuncula-Alfonso9

TREVI FOUNTAIN

ST. PETER’S ROME

ST. PETERS, ROME

St. Peter’s tomb

MAP ROOM

pieta

St. Mary Basilica VENICE

Sicilian Baroque: San Benedetto in Catania

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza: Francesco Borromini

Palais du Luxembourg

CHATEAU DE CHANTILLY

TAJ MAHAL

HUMAJUN

LOUVRE

Chateaux - Amboise

CHAMBORD

CHENONCEAU

Chateau at Blois

Blois

FONTAINBLEU

Title: Stucco and wall painting

Artist: Primaticcio

Date: 1540s

Source/ Museum: Chamber of the duchess of Étampes, Château of Fontainebleau

Medium: n/a

Size: n/a

TIMBUKTU –MALI 1600

church of Weltenburg Abbey

St Peter’s Vienna

ST PAUL’S LONDON 1632

ST. GENEVIVE CHURCH PARIS 1755

LES INVALIDES PARIS

CHISWICK HOUSE 1725

Chatsworth House

ST.CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH VIENNA 1715

CHURCH MUNICH

ZWINGER PALACE DRESDEN 1705

CASTLE HOWARD -YORK

SEATON DELAVAL HALL 1719

BLENHEIM PALACE

RADCLIFFE LIBRARY

OXFORD 1737

wiblingen

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Churrigueresque. Within half a century, they transformed Salamanca into an exemplary Churrigueresque city. Among the highlights of the style, interiors of the Granada Charterhouse offer some of the most impressive combinations of space and light in 18th-century Europe. Integrating sculpture and architecture even more radically, Narciso Tomé achieved

striking chiaroscuro effects in his Transparente for the Toledo Cathedral.

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San Francisco de Asís Church,San Francisco de Asís Church, Lima, 1673.Lima, 1673.