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BAROQUE ART
Definition:
– Portuguese for grotesque
Charles le Brun First Painter
The great courts of Europe entertained
lavishly
Louis XIV establishes the Royal Academy
of Painting & Sculpture
PAINTING
Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio
(1573-1610)
Italian painter
Boy with a Basket of Fruit,1590
The Supper at Emmaus,1597
Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600
The Crucifixion of St. Peter, 1601
Caravaggisti
Followers of
Caravaggio
– Carallino
– Responsible for the
movement to Spain,
France, & the
Netherlands
– Included future “stars”,
eg. Rubens
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598-1680)
Sculptor, painter,
architect, composer
Apollo & Daphne, 1623
David, 1623-1624
Fontana del Moro, 1653
Trevi Fountain, 1730-1762
Louis Le Nain
(1593-1648)
3 brothers, Louis, Antoine & Mathieu
Les Joueurs de Tris-Trac
Adoration of the Magi,1630-1632
Landscape with Peasants,1640
Happy Family,1642
The Peasants Meal, 1642
Nicholas Poussin
(1593-1665)
French painter
Venus and Adonis, 1624
Helios and Phaeton with Saturn and the
Four Seasons, 1635
Rape of the Sabine Women,1637-1638
The Continence of Scipio,1640
Holy Family on the Steps,1648
Claude Lorrain
(1600-1682)
French painter
Seaport (Ville Medici),1637
Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of
Admetus and Mercury Stealing Them.1645
Seaport,1674
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640)
Flemish Painter
Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of
Lerma, 1603
The Raising of the Cross,1610-1611
The Massacre of the Innocents,1611
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia,1615
The Lion Hunt,1621
The Judgement of Paris,1625
The Castle of Steen,1635
Rembrandt van Rijn
(1600-1669)
Greatest Dutch
painter…the Dutch
Golden Age
Style associated with
the CounterReformation &
Absolutism
The Young Rembrandt1622
Self-portrait in a cap and eyes Wide Open, 1630
Rembrandt,1632
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, 1633
The Descent from the Cross,1634
The Night Watch1642
Rembrandt,1655
The Syndics of the Cloth Guild,1662
Rembrandt,1669
ARCHITECTURE
Versailles, 1669
– Classical forms, complex gardens, extravagant
interiors power of the monarchy
Church of the Invalides, Paris
1679
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
1697
Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
1725
MUSIC
1600-the rise of opera in in Florence
1750, Johann Sebastian Bach died
an expression of feelings. A heroic,
exciting age that is reflected in the music
originated in Italy but dominant in
Germany
Claudio Monteverdi
1567-1643
Early
Baroque…transition
from Renaissance
Greatest
achievement Opera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Orfeo
Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741
Conductor, composer
at Conservatory in
Venice
The concerto
 influenced later
musicians, eg. Bach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750
German composer
Blended Italian &
German music
More than 800
compositions
George Frederic Handel
1685-1759
Germany, London in
1712
Composed for royal
family
Messiah
 Dominated English
music for 150 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
LITERATURE
Literary works included the writings of the
French philosphes & the English
Augustans
Jonathan Swift
1667-1745
Gullivers Travels,
1726
(Travels into Several
Remote Nations of the
World, in Four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver, First a
Surgeon, and then a
Captain of several
Ships)
Edward Gibbons,
1737-1794
History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire,
1788
Dr. Samuel Johnson,
1709-1784
Dictionary of the
English Language,
1755
Daniel Defoe,
1659-1751
Robinson Crusoe,
1719
Moll Flanders, 1722
Henry Fielding
1707-1754
Tom Jones, 1749