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Baroque

- Virtual tour of The Palace of Versaille
- Baroque Review

KEY IDEAS

  • Art during the Baroque period is influenced by the Counter-Reformation, symbolized the Catholic resurgence (after the Protestant Reformation). 

  • Baroque art flourished in Holland and became of the voice to counter Catholic art.

  • Baroque can be separated in 2 schools: classicists (influenced by Raphael) and naturalists (inspired by Titian).

  • Baroque architecture is associated with the grand and majestic royal courts.

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HISTORY

  • The finishing of St. Peter's became a crusade for the Catholic Church

  • 1650: Increased power and influence of French Kings. This shifted the art world from Rome to France.

  • France became center of modern art and innovation. 

  • The Thirty Years (1618-1648). It devastated Europe which produced a halt in art making. It was a culmination of religious wars of the 16th century: Catholics vs. Protestants. German princes wanted secular power back.

  • The Counter-Reformation movement reaffirmed all the things the Protestant Reformation was against. Protestants were iconoclasts.

  • 1648: The Peace of Westphalia- gave religious freedom (along with many other additions but for the sake of Art History, this is the most important)

Southern Baroque Art

82. Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco

85. Calling of Saint Matthew, Caravaggio  

88. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Francesco Borromini 
89. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini 

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 Southern + Northern Aristocratic + Spanish Baroque Art

86. Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de'Medici, Peter Paul Rubens 

93. The Palace at Versailles

                  * The Courtyard

                  * Hall of Mirrors

                  * The Gardens of Versailles

91. Las Meninas, Diego Velazquez 

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Northern Bourgeois Baroque Art

87. Self-Portrait with Saskia, Rembrandt van Rijn 

92. Woman Holding a Balance, Johannes Vermeer 

96. Fruit and Insects, Rachel Ruysch 

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