Presentation about Baroque Art for students of 2º ESO.

1. BAROQUE ART

2. Main characteristics
• Born after the Council of Trent in Catholic countries is the artisctic
frepresentation of the Counter- Reformation.
• It tries to educate the christians into their faith, so its has to be clear
and naturalistic, triying to inspirate piety.
• The principals promoters are the Church and Monarchies in Catholic
countries, and the burghers in the Protestant ones.
• It has a tendency to grandiosity.
• Baroque desires to evoke emotions, often in dramatic ways.
• Baroque artists loved to play with light and colours.

3. ARCHITECTURE
• Use of classical orders columns and solomonic or twisted columns
• Use of central floor plan
• Use of dramatic light-and-shade contrasts
• Opulent use of ornaments
• Illusory effects like trompe l’oleil

4. ITALY
C. Maderno
Vatican

5. Bernini
St. Peter’s Baldachin St. Peter’s Square

6. Sant’Andrea al Quirinale

7. Borromini
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

8. Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza Sant’Agnese in Agone

9. SPAIN
Hurtado Izquierdo: Cartuja of Granada Alonso Cano: Cathedral of Granada
(façade)

10. Jose Churriguera
San Esteban
Nuevo Baztán

11. FRANCE
Mansart: Val de Gracê Versailles

12. ENGLAND
Chr. Wren: St Paul’s Cathedral N. Hawksmoor: Christ Church at
Spitalfields

13. SCULPTURE
• Great dynamism: strong curves, decoration, etc.
• Multiple ideal viewing angles.
• Great development of expression.
• The most used materials were wood, marble and bronze.

14. Bernini
David
Apollo and Daphne

15. Ecstasy of St. Teresa

16. J. Martínez Montañés
San Jerónimo
Christ of
Clemency

17. Alonso Cano
St. John the Baptist
Inmaculada
del facistol

18. PAINTING
• It reflects grandeur or sensuality
• Strong emotional content
• Naturalism or realism and classicism
• Themes: classical mythology or Judeo- Christian tradition, and also
landscapes, selfportraits and still life works
• A mastery of light and shadows: chiaroscuro and tenebrism
• Painters tried to involve the viewer into the scene

19. Caravaggio
The Conversion in the Way to Damascus Call of St. Matthew

20. Crucifixion of St. Peter Judith and Holofernes

21. Artemisia Gentileschi
Selfportrait Danae

22. Diego Velázquez
Bacchus Innocent X

23. Pablo de Valladolid The Fable of Arachne or the Spinners

24. Las Meninas

25. Rubens
Leda and the Swan
The three Graces

26. Rembrandt
Night Watch Selfportrait

27. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp Saskia smiling

28. J. Vermeer
The Milkmaid
Girl with a Pearl Earring

29. F. Hals
Jester with a Lute Gypsy Girl

30. M. Hobbema
The Avenue at Middelharnis Wooded Landscape