1. Baroque Art
The Council of Trent, in which the Roman Catholic Church answered many questions of internal reform raised by both Protestants and by those who had remained inside the Catholic Church, addressed the representational arts by demanding that paintings and sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.

2. The Catholic Church wanted art that would inspire and move the worshiper
It also wanted art that would “sell” the Catholic religion
Church artworks should be a clear, intelligible subject realistically interpreted in order to stimulate piety.
This was part of the reason that the artwork turned towards naturalism, becoming emotionally engaging and intense.

3. Baroque art is a successor to mannerism
It is grandiose
It is a three-dimensional display of life and energy
Baroque art tends to focus on Saints, the Virgin Mary, and other well known bible stories
Baroque art is characterized by great drama, rich deep color, and intense light and dark shadows

4. As opposed to Renaissance art, which usually showed the moment before an event took place, Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring.

5. Caravaggi: Crucifixion of Peter (1601) Italian Artist

6. Caracci: Flight into Egypt (1603) Italian Artist

7. Georges de La Tour: St. Joseph Carpenter (1642) French Artist

8. Rembrandt: Christ in the Storm on Lake of Galilee (1632) Dutch Artist

9. Not all baroque art was religious in nature
Not all baroque art was religious in nature. Rembrandt painted Abduction of Europa. Europa was a Phoenician woman in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken.

10. The princess Europa is carried away from her companions and across the sea – by the god Jupiter in the guise of the white bull – to the distant land that would bear her name.

11. Rembrandt: Abduction of Europa (1632) Dutch Artist

12. Francisco de Zurbarán (1627) Spanish Artist

13. Peter Paul Rubens ( )
The most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century.
Because many of his paintings feature full-figured, voluptuous women, the word "Rubenesque" (meaning plump or fleshy, yet not "fat," and used exclusively to describe women) is derived from his last name.

14. Peter Paul Rubens: Allegory on Charles V as Ruler of the World Flemish Painter

15. Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1690) Italian Artist
Sculptor
Architect
Roman fountains, part public works and part Papal monuments, were among his most gifted creations
Also revolutionized marble busts, lending glamorous dynamism to once stony stillness of portraiture.

16. Bernini: Marble Bust of Pope Urban VIII (1623-1624)

17. Bernini: Bronze Bust of Pope Urban VIII (1632-1633)

18. Bernini: David ( ) Considered to be among the first truly baroque statues. Note that David is poised to throw the rock.

19. Spanish Baroque Architecture Santiago Cathedral

20. German Baroque Architecture Kaisersaal, or Emperor’s Hall, of the Residenz, shown on next slide, is an oval reception room with a domed ceiling and frescoes painted by Italian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. (1700s)

22. Bernini: Piazza and Collonade St. Peter’s Rome

23. French Baroque Architecture: Palace of Versailles
Built
In the Hall of Mirrors:
The German Empire was proclaimed on January 18, 1871 following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War.
It was also here that Germany signed the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I.

26. Versailles: Hall of Mirrors Located on the first floor of the palace, it takes its name from the 357 LARGE mirrors that face windows on an opposite wall.