1. Baroque = “oddly shaped pear”
Baroque Art
The Ornate Age
Baroque = “oddly shaped pear”

2. Focus Question
How did the Protestant Reformation and religious wars spark the style of Baroque painting & architecture?

3. Baroque Chiaroscuro = use of light & shading
Baroque art lasted from 16th century to 18th century
Baroque = overdone, dramatic, even gawdy
Baroque art expanded the role of art into everyday life
Like explorers did, artists also built upon past discoveries
The most common element: a sensitivity to and absolute mastery of light to achieve maximum emotional impact
Chiaroscuro = use of light & shading

4. Baroque
Flow of Baroque: Rome (1600: Cathedrals to display family triumphs to attract new worshipers to Catholicism)  France (divine-right monarchs spending like pharaohs on palaces—think my palace at Versailles)
Paintings tended to be still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and scenes from daily life
Religious art flourished in Catholic countries
Religious art was forbidden in Protestant lands like England and Holland

5. Protestant Church vs. Catholic Church

6. Italian Baroque Artists could
represent the human body from any angle
portray the most complex perspective
Realistically reproduce almost any appearance
The change from the Renaissance to Baroque was through the emphasis on emotion and dynamism rather than rationality and stasis
Three significant artists: Caravaggio, Bernini, and Borromini

7. Caravaggio He took realism to new lengths
He secularized religious art, making saints and miracles seem like ordinary people and everyday events
Many said he was the first artist intentionally seeking to shock and offend…and if he tried to, he certainly succeeded
Caravaggio was also a rebel, arrested multiple times and hung around the dregs of society…
…and he once stabbed a man in the groin over a tennis wager. Ouch.

8. Caravaggio: “The Calling of St. Michael”

9. Caravaggio
“The Calling of St. Michael” is a vision of Matthew, the apostle-to-be, sitting in a dark pub counting money, when Christ orders him “Follow me.”

10. Caravaggio: “The Conversion of St. Paul”

11. Caravaggio
“The Conversion of St. Paul” demonstrates Caravaggio’s ability to see a traditional subject in a unique, unusual way through hard focus and blinding spotlight and the use of St. Paul being flat on his back with a horse over him
Usually St. Paul’s story of conversion is seen through Saul being converted by a voice from heaven with Christ on the heavenly throne surrounded by throngs of angels

12. Bernini ( )
Gianlorenzo Bernini was an architect, painter, playwright, composer, and theater designer and most famour sculptor of his era…
Bernini created his version of “David” at age 25

13. “David” by Bernini

14. “David” by Bernini
Bernini captured the moment of maximum torque, as he wound up to hurl the stone
David bit his lips from the strain, conveying the power about to be unleashed, causing observers in front of the sculpture to almost want to duck
This is an example of Baroque art involving the viewer in its motion and emotion by threatening to burst its physical confines

15. “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa” by Bernini

16. “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa” by Bernini
This was Bernini’s masterpiece and the culmination of the Baroque style Bernini’s goal was to relive Christ’s passion through the sculpture to give worshippers an intense religious experience
The saint and angel appear to be floating on swirling clouds, which golden rays of light pour down from a vault of heaven painted on the ceiling
The feathery wings and frothy clouds are equally convincing

17. FYI
Chapter 13 study guide out Friday (The ch 13 quiz will be an ID one )
DBQs – I’m taking a lot of time on them, hope to have them in your hands by tomorrow