1. Juan Valencia Visual Arts 5-4-18
Baroque Art ( )
Juan Valencia
Visual Arts
5-4-18

2. What is baroque art?
Describes European painting, sculpture, and architecture created
First applied to visual arts
Mentions art produced at the end of the renaissance in the 1500s
Beginning of modernism in the 1700s
Rich and diverse time period
Italy, Spain, and France

3. Michelangelo ( )
First painter called baroque was Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Considered the most influential
Known for his violent behavior
Worked mostly in Rome
Painted large canvases that depicted religious subjects from the new tenament
Subject matter remained traditional
Italian artist

4. Pietro de Cortona(1596-1669) Both an architect and painter
Painted the large ceiling fresco The triumph of divine providence
Imaginary vision of the ascent of immortality of a living person
Color figures that swirl freely overhead
Composition is loosely arranged

5. Rembrandt-self portrait with two circles
Emininet dutch painter
Paintings inspired by foreign influences
Oil on canvas painting by Rembrandt van rijn
He’s holding his palette, brushes, and maulstick
Is made notable with his ruthless honesty
Portray himself grooves around his eyebrows
And drooping jowls

6. Peter paul rubens- The garden of love
Known for being the prince of painters and painter of princes
Influenced historical and mythological ideals
Produced in 1663 and now in the prado museum in Madrid
Subject is a traditional medieval one; lovers shown conventionally in a garden
Celebrated his love to Helena Fourment
Most beautiful in Antwerp

7. Diego velázquez- La venus del Espejo- the Rokeby Venus
Represented the spanish golden age
His work inspired the impressionists and realist
Depicts the goddess venue
Mirror held by the Roman god of physical love he son Cupid
The painting is in the national gallery of London