Baroque: The principal European style in the visual arts in the 17th century and the first half of the 18th; generally considered to be characteristic of the period of Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Giordano and Tiepolo in painting, Bernini in sculpture, and Borromini, Fischer von Erlach and Wren in architecture. Usage of the term is often extended to the whole period 1600–1750 without qualifying restrictions, or improperly to mean a florid and elaborate style in art, architecture, music or literature, of any date from late antiquity to the early 20th century.
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In Baroque, a thematic approach to Baroque art by John Rupert Martin, Martin defines Baroque as the predominant artistic trends of the period that is roughly comprehended by the 17th century and in an attempt to define the characteristics of Baroque art we may begin with naturalism (Martin, pg 12). Both definitions recognize that the Baroque period was a European style in the 17th century. Martin says that the end of the Baroque period is as unclear as its beginning. There are works that belong to the 18th century that can be called Baroque, but no doubt that the Baroque began to slack by the last quarter of the 17th century. Traditional subjects such as mythology, portraiture and other sacred art were transformed and given a more naturalistic vision of Baroque ( Martin, 13).
Procession to Santa Maria Maggiore
- Pilgrimage- important incinitive/jubiliee
- Were many deaths due to crowds
- Yearly papal processions
Ecstasy of St. Teresa-Bernini 1647-52
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- St. Teresa was a Carmalite
- Sculptural altar piece
- Reflects dedication to the chapel
- Counter reformation of saints
- Shows different ways enlightenment could occur
- Borgias
Lecture-Rome of Sixtus V (1585-1590)
Period that had more spaces and areas to build on
Portrait of Sixtus V.- Fillipo Bellini
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- Franciscan
- Secular/birth name Felice Peretti di Montalto
- Often credited for trans-formative shift
- Iron Pope
- Interested in building
- Ability to get things done
- Begun engineering projects to upgrade the city
- facilitate new plans of transportation
Fountain of Moses (Aqua Felice)
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqua_Felice
- Project by Pope Sixtus V
- Dominico Fantana was the engineer who helped Pope Sixtus realize his dream
- An expressed vision of Sixtus to make Rome most modern/Christian/beautiful
- Begun the day Pope Sixtus V was elected pope
- Main subject played out in sculptural program is Moses
- Analogy of Moses and Pope Sixtus V-both leading the poeple; associations with water
- No names of the sculptures that helped build this fountain
- Many people got their water from this fountain
- See the opening of streets
- Marked intersections
- Architectural form
- Large attic filled for any sculptural relief
- Went through a number of renovations throughout Baroque period
The Palazzo
- Had three churches
- Many of the projects were nameless team projects run by an engineer
Il Gesù-Jacopo della Porta
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- When Pope Sixtus V becomes pope this is the new church
- Often referred to as a transitional phase from Renaissance to the Baroque period
- Complex use of elements
- not a façade with a lot of movement
- Patron Alexander
- The façade of the church is divided into two sections.
Mercedes Baroque Art 