Baroque italy and_spain

Baroque Art in Italy and Spain

THEME:

If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it!

KEY IDEAS:•Counter-Reformation flourishes in Baroque Italy, Spain, Flanders and France.•Protestant Baroque art acts as a counter-voice in Holland

•Two schools of Baroque painting:• Classicists (Raphaelite)• Naturalists (Titian)

•Experimentation with different art forms: genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes

•Baroque architecture = majestic royal courts of Europe!

Italian Baroque

Carlo Maderno

Santa Susana

Rome, Italy

1597-1603

Giacomo della Porta

façade of Il Gesù

Rome, Italy

ca. 1575-1584

Carlo Maderno

façade of Saint Peter’s

Vatican City, Rome, Italy

1606-1612

What happened to Bramante and Michelangelo’s vision of St. Peter’s?

Carlo Maderno

Aerial view of Saint Peter’s


1506-1666

Gianlorenzo Bernini

baldacchino Saint Peter’s


1624-33gilded bronzeapproximately 100 ft. high

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Scala Regia


1663-1666

Gianlorenzo Bernini

David

1623marbleapproximately 5 ft. 7 in. high

Gianlorenzo Bernini

interior of the Cornaro Chapel

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

1645-1652

Gianlorenzo Bernini

Ecstasy of Saint Theresa

Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

1645-1652

Francesco Borromini

façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1665-1676

Francesco Borromini

plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1665-1676

Francesco Borromini

dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1665-1676

Francesco Borromini

Chapel of Saint Ivo College of the Sapienza

Rome, Italy

begun 1642

Francesco Borromini

plan of the Chapel of Saint Ivo College of the Sapienza

Rome, Italy

begun 1642

Francesco Borromini

dome of the Chapel of Saint Ivo College of the Sapienza

Rome, Italy

begun 1642

Annibale Carracci

Flight into Egypt

1603-1604oil on canvas4 ft. x 7 ft. x 6 in.

Annibale Carracci

Loves of the Gods

Gallery, Palazzo FarneseRome, Italy

1597-1601fresco

Annibale Carracci

Loves of the Gods, Triumph of Bacchus


1597-1601fresco

Annibale Carracci

Loves of the Gods Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea


1597-1601fresco

Caravaggio

Conversion of Saint Paul

Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del PopoloRome, Italy

ca. 1601oil on canvasapproximately 7 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 9 in.

Caravaggio

Calling of Saint Matthew

Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei FrancesciRome, Italy

ca. 1597-1601oil on canvas11 ft. 1 in. x 11 ft. 5 in.

Caravaggio

David Victorious over Goliath

oil on canvas43 1/4 x 35 7/8 in.

Caravaggio

Entombment

Chapel of Pietro Vittrice, Santa Maria in VallicellaRome, Italy

ca. 1603oil on canvas9 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 6 ft. 15/16 in.

Artemisia Gentileschi

Self-Portrait (Allegory of Painting)

1630oil on canvas38 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.

Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, a painter

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Slaying Holofernes

ca. 1614-1629oil on canvas6 ft. 6 1/3 in. x 5 ft. x 4 in.

Guido Reni

Aurora

Ceiling fresco in the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy

1613-1614fresco

Pietro da Cortona

Triumph of the Barberini

ceiling fresco in the Gran SalonePalazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

1633-1639fresco

Ceiling Frescoes•What do these images have in common?•What was appealing about ceiling paintings?

Pietro da Cortona

Triumph of the Barberini

ceiling fresco in the Gran SalonePalazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

1633-1639fresco

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Triumph in the Name of Jesus

ceiling fresco with stucco figures in the vault of Il Gesu, Rome, Italy

1676-1679fresco

Fra Andrea Pozzo

Glorification of Saint Ignatius

ceiling fresco with stucco figures in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, Italy

1691-1694fresco

Spanish Baroque

José de Ribera

Martyrdom of Saint Philip (Bartholomew)

ca. 1639oil on canvas7 ft. 8 in. x 7 ft. 8 in.

Francisco de Zurbarán

Saint Serapion

1628oil on canvas3 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 3 ft. 4 3/4 in.


Still Life with Pottery Jars

oil on canvas18 1/8 x 33 1/8 in.


Agnus Dei

oil on canvas15 x 24 3/8 in.

Diego Velázquez

Water Carrier of Seville

ca. 1619oil on canvas3 ft. 5 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 7 1/2 in.

Diego Velázquez

Los Borrachos

ca. 1619oil on canvas64 3/8 x 87 7/8 in.

Diego Velázquez

Surrender of Breda

1634-1635oil on canvas10 ft. 1 in. x 12 ft. 1/2 in.

Diego Velázquez

King Philip IV of Spain (Fraga Philip)

1644oil on canvas4 ft. 3 1/8 in. x 3 ft. 1/8 in.

Diego Velázquez

Las Meninas

1656oil on canvasapproximately 10 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft.

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