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1 BAROQUE THE AGE OF THE BAROQUE

2 17 th 17 th and early 18 th centuries When?

3 BAROQUE: INFLUENCES UPON THE BAROQUE:

4 ABSOLUTE MONARCHY THE AGE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY

5 VIOLENT CONFLICTS OVER RELIGION 1524-1648

6 CATHOLICISM THE RESURGENCE OF CATHOLICISM

7 WEALTH FROM TRADE AND COMMERCE

8 THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

9 Characteristics of The Baroque Characteristics of The Baroque :

10 Dramatic Dramatic Statement of the Subject!

11 GRANDIOSE EXPRESSION! THEATRICALITY

12 Emphasis on the BIG and LARGE: OVERSTATEMENT

13 Rubens: Marie de Medici Arriving at Marseilles

14 Tension Conflict Heroic Tragic Scale Tension and Conflict on a Heroic often Tragic Scale

15 Rubens: The Lion Hunt

16 PASSION! AWE! ACTIVITY ! PASSION! AWE! ACTIVITY !

17 Light Dark The use of Light and Dark Emphasis in contrast for Emphasis

18 The REALISTIC DEPICTION of a WIDE RANGE of HUMANITY

19 Velasquez: The Waterseller of Seville

20 Jan Steen: Easy Come, Easy Go

21 Anthony Van Dyck: Portrait of Charles I

22 Jan Vermeer: The Milkmaid

23 EXAMPLES a few more EXAMPLES

24 IN PAINTING: Rembrandt Diego Velasquez Peter Paul Rubens

25 Rembrandt: The Night Watch

26 Velasquez: Las Meninas

27 Rubens: Christ on the Cross Between the Two Thieves

28 Gian Lorenzo Bernini Christopher Wren Louis Le Vau SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE:

29 Bernini: The Ecstasy of St. Theresa

30 Louis Le Vau Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles

31 André Le Nôtre Versailles Gardens

32 St. Peter’s Square, Rome Bernini

33 St. Peter’s Square, Rome

34 Wren St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

35 Belvedere Palace, Vienna Johann von Hildebrandt

36 Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna Nikolaus Pacassi

37 Baroque Gardens show geometric precision

38 Mazes showed math, science and horticulture and added fun for guests Hampton Court, England

39 Fountains decorated and showed the power to control water Peterhof Palace St. Petersburg

40 IN MUSIC : Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi George Frederic Handel Jean-Baptiste Lully

41 BachBach Lully Monteverdi HandelHandel VivaldiVivaldi


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