Santa Susanna Facade
- Carlo Maderno
- 1597-1603.
- Rome
- High Baroque
- Early Modern
- Renovation of church that already existed
- Created double tabernacle facade
- Repetition of forms
- Rhythm created
- Doesn’t give facade that extends on either side
- Interior eluded to early Christian designs
- Flat ceilings
Transition to Early Baroque
Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro
Taddeo in the Belvedere Court in the Vatican, Drawing the Laocoön
- Federico Zuccaro
- 1595
- Italy
- Early Modern 15th-19th C.
- High Renaissance
- Elements of Council of Trent
- Clarity/intelligent
- Federico was a theorist
- Partly responsible for spread of Italian style
- Becomes one of the instigators for a new academy in Rome, Accademia Di San Luca in 1607
- Premier training opportunities for artist to come to Rome and learn new style
- Painted facades
- Learned from Taddeo
- Negatively compared to older brother Taddeo
- At the end of Council of Trent, began to get commissions
- Style of Raphael
Parnassus, in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Vatican City, Rome
- Raphael
- Renaissance:Italian
- Early Modern: 15th-19th C.
- High Renaissance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parnassus
Blinding of Elymas
- Raphael
- Tapestry Cartoon
- Made cartoon tapestries to hang in Sistine Chapel
- Began to get known in various ways
- Paul is on Pathos preaching to council
- Gets blinded
- Shows great Roman architecture
http://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael/the-blinding-of-elymas-cartoon-for-the-sistine-chapel
Conversion of Saul, Frangipani Chapel, S. Marcello del Corso, Rome
- Federico and Taddeo Zuccaro
- 1564
- Late Renaissance
- Italy
- Becomes one of new subjects widely utilized
- Conversion becomes key subject to the church
- Moment when Paul becomes defender of the church
- Birth of defender of church
- Conveys growing sense of military triumphalism
- Follows Michelangelo
- Dedicated to Paul
Deposition, Santa Felicita
- Pontormo
- 1526-28
- Renaissance
- Italian
- Mannerism
- Interest in taking ideas of High Renaissance further
- Same means as Parmigiano
- Exaggerated proportions
- Figures squeezed into a tight space
- Form to increase its beauty
- Not great deal of depth
- Figures squeezed in tight space
- Initiated Mannerist painting in Florence
- Figures gestures/expressions give sense of motion
- Quotation of Michelangelo’s early works in Rome (The Pieta)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deposition_from_the_Cross_%28Pontormo%29
Federico Barocci
- Inventor of light and color
- Also a pioneer
- There were works by Titian nearby that he would study
- Would become extremely important with major patrons in Italy and Spain
- Continue to have a following of High Baroque artist
- Scholars paid a lot of attention to him
- Work on scale of Fresco painters
- Painting on scale of altar pieces’ not easy to get to
- None of his works were in collections because they’re up in churches
- Influenced by Taddeo
- Takes from Raphael and Michelangelo
- Look at great masters’ studying techniques
- Interests in compositions, forms, practice of drawing
- Works well known are his drawings
- Bring diverse traditions together
- Becomes famous for single works of saints
Desposition
- 1569
- Italian
- Mannerism
- Figures have more room to breathe and stretch
- Figures clothing continue out the scene
- Allows viewer to empathize
- Use foreshortening; natural perspective; consistency
- Explores more painterly approach to color
- Interested in Venetian color
- Color change by light and shadow
- Franciscan Monk observing; not completely idealized
- New elements of naturalism
http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/painting_343652/Federico-Fiori-Barocci/Deposition
Pastel Study
- Renaissance
- Italian
- Early Modern: 15th-19th C.
- Mannerism
- Hasn’t existed before
- Gets picked up by Venetian artists
- Broken contour lines; gestural approach
- 3 color chalk drawing
Visitation
- 1583-86
- Italian
- Early Modern: 15th-19th C.
- Mannerism
- Limited number of figures with restraint and simplicity
- Diagonal
- St. Phillip Neri would pray/ meditate in front of it and fall into a mystical swoon
http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2013/02/28/26529332.html
Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple, Chiesa Nuova, Santa Maria della Vallicella, Rome
- 1594
- Baroque:Italian
- Early Modern 15th-19th C.
- Early Baroque
- More figures
- Complex version of The Visitation
- Many same characteristics: color; light
http://arthistoryreference.com/cgi-bin/hd.exe?art2=a53913
St. Jerome
- 1598
- Italian
- Early Modern: 15th-19th C.
- Mannerism
- Monochromatic setting
- Night setting
- Create emotion
- 3 light sources
- Heightened emotions
Parmigianino, Conversion of Saul
Michelangelo
- The Conversion of Saul
- 1542–1545
- Italian Renaissance
- Pauline Chapel, Vatican
Mercedes Baroque Art 