Baroque ba-roque / b ə-’rōk According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: 1. An irregularly shaped pearl. 2.of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a style of artistic expression prevalent in the 17 th century that is marked generally by extravagant forms and elaborate and sometimes grotesque ornamentation and specifically also in architecture by dynamic opposition and the use of curved figures, in music by improvisation, contrasting effects and powerful tensions, and in literature by complexity of form and bizarre, ingenious and often ambiguous imagery. extravagant grotesque bizarrecomplexity ambiguous Or not!

Baroque Music, art, architecture and literature became elaboratley detailed and ornamented People of the Baroque era tended to find strength in both sides of any question

Baroque “Religion was of vital importance, profoundly affecting the literature, philosophy, science, art, and music of the period. … Yet the secular side of life was also more important than ever before in the Christian era, and much Baroque art had a decidedly popular character. (Ferris, 99).

Baroque History  1600Dutch opticians invent the telescope  1602Galileo investigates laws of gravitation and oscillation  1605Shakespeare writes King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra  1607Jamestown, VA is founded  1606John Milton is born  1611King James Bible is first published  1612Tobacco is planted in Virginia  1615Galileo faces the Inquisition for the first time  1616William Shakespeare dies  1618Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed  1619First African slaves in N. America arrive in Virginia  1620Pilgrims arrive in America  1626Island of Manhattan purchased from Indian chiefs for about $24.00  1631Eng. Mathematician William Oughtred proposes symbol “X” for multiplication  1636Harvard College is founded  1637Japan prohibits contact with Europe  1639First printing press in N. America  1642Isaac Newton is born

Baroque History  1650Tea is drunk in England for the first time  1652First opera house in Vienna  1656Rembrandt declares bankruptcy  1659Henry Purcell is born  1660Water closets arrive from France in England  1665Great plague of London begins  1675Antonio Vivaldi is born  1677Ice cream becomes a popular dessert in Paris  1680 The Dodo bird becomes extinct  1685Johann Sebastian Bach is born  1685George Frederic Händel is born  1698Metastasio is born  1701Captain William Kidd is hanged for piracy  1703Construction begins on Buckingham Palace  1704First American newspaper, Boston News Letter  1706Benjamin Franklin is born  1709Pianoforte is invented  1719Leopold Mozart is born

Baroque Art The Expulsion of the Money Lenders From the Marketplace, Rembrandt Baroque artistic characteristics Space filled with action and movement

Baroque Art Marriage à la Mode: The Contract, William Hogarth Baroque artistic characteristics Sense of Dynamics and Passion

Baroque Art Bust of the Savior, Gianlorenzo Bernini baroque artistic characteristics Creating illusion

Baroque Architecture Christ Church, London England, 1715 – 1729 Nicholas Hawksmoor Architectural Characteristics Twisting, curling designs Elaborate carvings

Baroque Architecture Piazza di Pietra, Rome, Italy Gianlorenzo Bernini

Baroque Architecture Chateau de Versailles Versailles, France Numerous architects

Baroque Music Henry Purcell Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Purcell was the leading English composer of the Baroque period. He wrote more than 100 songs, chamber music, dramatic music, odes, some sacred songs, harpsichord suites and organ music.

Baroque Music Antonio Vivaldi Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Vivaldi was the leading Italian composer of the late Baroque. He wrote 500 concertos, 50 operas, 40 Cantatas, and a great deal of church music including oratorios, motets and psalms.

Baroque Music J. S. Bach Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Master of the baroque style, Bach wrote over 300 church cantatas, several masses, a magnificat, two passions, oratorios, motets, organ music, keyboard music, 6 sonatas for violin, 6 Brandenburg Concertos, and numerous other types of music.

Baroque Music G.F. Händel Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Polyphonic texture Word Painting Contrasting dynamics Dramatic choral works (cantatas and oratorios) Händel wrote more than 40 operas, 30 oratorios, 40 sonatas and 100 cantatas (all secular). He was the major force in English musical life during his lifetime and had a great influence on the works of Haydn.

Baroque Authors Rene Descartes Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician. He believed that in all things only mathematics was certain, therefore, all knowledge must be based on mathematics.

Baroque Authors John Milton English poet best known for hie epic poem Paradise Lost based on the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

Baroque Authors Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière Molière left behind a body of work which not only changed the face of French classical comedy, but has gone on to influence the work of other dramatists the world over. The greatest of his plays include The School for Husbands (1661), The School for Wives (1662), The Misanthrope (1666), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1666), Tartuffe (1664,1667,1669), The Miser (1668), and The Imaginary Invalid (1673). The School for HusbandsThe School for WivesThe MisanthropeThe Doctor in Spite of HimselfTartuffeThe MiserThe School for HusbandsThe School for WivesThe MisanthropeThe Doctor in Spite of HimselfTartuffeThe Miser