If it’s not Baroque don’t fix it
Renaissance was the period of enlightment and that gave way to the period called Baroque. The Baroque period is to me more of the romantic age in history , this period lasted from about 1600 to 1750. This lavish period is known for exaggerated motion and rich, minute detail in order to bring out emotional intensity like drama. Baroque was was derived from the Spanish word ‘barroco’, Spanish ‘barroco’ or French ‘baroque’ which all mean ‘rough or imperfect pearl’.-(The Oxford English Dictionary ). The baroque period is expressed differently all over Europe. To the Protestant Northern, Italian Roman Catholic are stylistically similar due to the fact that artistic techniques originated in Italy at that time.
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The Catholics were all about the bling and ceramony and that is reflected in the paintings. During the Baroque period and this time the Protestants had their Reformation and the Catholics had their Counter Reformation. This caused the Catholics numbers to drop and so they had to employ new and improved ways to keep people coming int heir doors so they used art amd other means to keep them faithful. Protestants went the more subdue route and removed religion from their works and focused on the moral lession instead. Both houses of art used the vast open spaces in their works subjects and scenerie were in a state of motion and that created emotion in the viewer. The subject was right in front of view or was revealed to the viewer. This was unheard of before then the motion of the subject matter was created in a circular or diagonal composition. Artist and people used the knew found knowledge that the world was a place of motion the earth moved and so should the artist subject matter which causes the art to spring to life before us. Baroque artist wanted to have pure realist subject matters and they studied nature and humans in all thier …show more content…
He made significant contributions to the art world that are still important decades later. The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is a very signifigant master piece. The Biblical story was that Peter is going to be crucified and since Jesus had been crucified upright Peter did not want to imitate his mentor so he asked to be crucified upside down, hence he is depicted upside-down. In the picture you see Roman soldiers with their faces hidden, struggling to erect the cross of the elderly but muscular Peter. You can see this great effort on the muscle tension of the Roman soldiers and the look of pain on Petters face. Some believe that Caravaggio did this as a mean to show that the Roman soldiers were ashamed of their crime and were hiding and just wanting to get the task done. Caravaggio put great attention to their details you can she the straigning of musscles and the thrusting of the cross in which Peter is nailed to. Caravaggio protrayed Peter not as a Saint but as a man who is suffering the pain of being nailed to a cross and the looming fear of death. Caravaggio did not protray Peter as this heroic servant of God who fearless gave his life for God, but a scared man who died humuliated and afraid. Caravaggio wanted to take the Roman Catholic faith and bring it from their high alters down to the
The tendencies of Baroque translated differently in parts of Europe. In Italy, it reflected the return of intense piety through dense church ornamentations, complex architecture, and dynamic painting. Calabrese’s work exhibits the combined artistic stimuli of the 17th century and culminates in the acquired Caravagesque style that alters how paintings were composed from then on. Executed at the height of Calabrese’s most creative phase, St. John the Baptist Preaching is indicates the monumentality of change in urbanization as well as the return of Catholic permanence in the 1600’s. Aside from the Baroque power of the artwork, Calabrese’s St. John is a piece worth gravitating to and stands as reminder of the grandiose excesses of Baroque art.
The development of Italian painting in the years around the 1300 or the proto-renaissance is in some sense the rebirth of art and culture. The painters of Renaissance Italy usually attached to particular courts and with loyalties to certain cities, still explored the extensive span of Italy. Many of the Italian painters grew artistically during this time, which is noticeable in Duccio’s painting compared to Giotto’s. In the renaissance period it was highly popularized to mainly draw depictions of religious figures, which is what the concentration of Duccio’s artwork mainly was. Before the painting of the Betrayal of Christ, Duccio’s paintings were highly composed and reliant upon the ancient tradition of icon painting. In the time around 1300 Duccio took steps toward depicting images in a more naturalistic form; Whereas, Giotto, in the 1300’s, was already established as painting more three-dimensional and naturalistic forms.
The Baroque era was born out of the Roman Catholic Church’s Counter Reformation, during which the church made considerable efforts to strengthen the relationship between the secular world and the religious order. In an effort to engage the common people and create piety, the Catholic Church wanted art to appeal to human emotions. Gentileschi successfully accomplishes this in her painting, Judith Slaying Holofernes. By infusing the Apocryphal tale of Judith with dramatic techniques such as chiaroscuro and foreshortening, she created a deeply moving and realistic piece of art that engages the viewer physically and emotionally, which is quintessential to the Baroque style.
The artists of the Baroque had a remarkably different style than artists of the Renaissance due to their different approach to form, space, and composition. This extreme differentiation in style resulted in a very different treatment of narrative. Perhaps this drastic stylistic difference between the Renaissance and Baroque in their treatment of form, space, and composition and how these characteristics effect the narrative of a painting cannot be seen more than in comparing Perugino’s Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter from the Early Renaissance to Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul from the Baroque.Perugino was one of the greatest masters of the Early Renaissance whose style ischaracterized by the Renaissance ideals of purity, simplicity, and exceptional symmetry of composition. His approach to form in Christ Delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St.Peter was very linear. He outlined all the figures with a black line giving them a sense of stability, permanence, and power in their environment, but restricting the figures’ sense of movement. In fact, the figures seem to not move at all, but rather are merely locked at a specific moment in time by their rigid outline. Perugino’s approach to the figures’themselves is extremely humanistic and classical. He shines light on the figures in a clear, even way, keeping with the rational and uncluttered meaning of the work. His figures are all locked in a contrapposto pose engaging in intellectual conversation with their neighbor, giving a strong sense of classical rationality. The figures are repeated over and over such as this to convey a rational response and to show the viewer clarity. Perugino’s approach to space was also very rational and simple. He organizes space along three simple planes: foreground, middle ground, and background. Christ and Saint Peter occupy the center foreground and solemn choruses of saints and citizens occupy the rest of the foreground. The middle distance is filled with miscellaneous figures, which complement the front group, emphasizing its density and order, by their scattered arrangement. Buildings from the Renaissance and triumphal arches from Roman antiquity occupy the background, reinforcing the overall classical message to the
The baroque has been called a theatrical style, one that deals in spectacle, grandeur, and dramatic contrast. Test these concepts in an essay that discusses the baroque as an expression of the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, the Scientific Revolution, and the Age of Absolutism. Define your general statements with specific examples. The following essay will discuss the baroque period and how the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, and the Scientific Revolution influenced it. The Baroque period generally refers to the years 1600 to1750. Classicism of the Renaissance has been replenished during the Baroque period. During the Baroque artistic period, the exploration of the fundamental components of human nature and the realm of senses and emotions were very crucial. The Baroque era was a very dynamic time that showed an abundance of radiance and color. Artists of this time were passionate and sensual. Their works were many times considered to have an overpowering emotional effect. The superficial form of light was fascinated during this period due to the thoughts of godlike sun or the truth of the Holy Spirit. The Baroque naturalism maintains the religious themes in content. The elements of perception in the Baroque art are how we perceived the natural human figures are in motion through space, time, and light. We present and analyze the extent of human actions and passions in all its degrees of lightness, darkness, and intensity. The scientific revolution also had a tremendous impact on art during this time. Scientists started to study the earth and it’s positioning in the universe. This was a time when the people started take more of an interest in astronomy and mathematical equations. During the time of the Catholic Reformation artists began to challenge all the rules that society has set for artistic design. Artist starting with Parmigianino, Tintoretto, and El Greco began to add a wide variety of colors into their paintings, challenging the way things have been done in the past. These artists also added abnormal figures or altered the proportions in paintings. This is displayed in Parmigianino’s painting, Madonna of the long neck. During this time the Catholic Church was in a transition period moving from their recent reputation and becoming a well-respected organization. During this reform, an autobiography written by Layola about Saint Teresa of Avila set a new tone for Catholics to follow. This influenced people to have a more spiritual outlook on life.
At first, art seemed to only focus on Jesus Christ and sin, but later on “the essence of the Renaissance” seemed to bring “stronger emotions in the subjects” and more of an “symbolic representation giving way to depictions of recognizable scenes (Document A from Theodore Rabb’s text).” The visual arts seemed to also have a greater detail of “well-defined landscapes, natural folds in drapery, and three-dimensional figures” as stated on Document A. It seems as though the human’s attention to detail seemed to be greater than ever, so that the viewers of the painting can get
The baroque and renaissance periods are two different periods. The renaissance period rolled into the baroque era. There were changes made over the years from the baroque to the renaissance period. Differences in style accumulated along with views of art and music.
The Baroque period, traversing from 1580- 1750, was a period in which numerous styles were formed. Affected by progressions in religious deduction also moves in political mentality, the florid music is rich in differentiations and disagreements, and the imaginative beliefs to which one arranger aimed would not so much be the same as an alternate's goals. Be that as it may, there all were steady values imparted by inventive brains, and vital to the reasoning of a Baroque craftsman, whether it was a painter, stone carver or musical performer, was a proclaimed goal to move the enthusiasms. The conviction was that music spoke to the feelings, or affections, of life, and consequently ought to energize the audience's feelings. This point spread past Italy, the 'source of Baroque symbolization in all its structures', to turn into one of the 'recognizing characteristics of creative endeavor'[1] all around the seventeenth and early eighteenth hundreds of years.
Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era. The consensus among music historians has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as it is understood in other disciplines. As in the other arts, the music of the period was significantly influenced by the developments which define the Early Modern period: the rise of humanistic thought; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; increased innovation and discovery; the growth of commercial
The Baroque period, which took place between 1600 and 1750, was an era based on artistic style that spread throughout the majority of Europe. Exaggerated motion and clear, easily understood detail was used largely in this era to produce drama, tension and liveliness in paintings, architecture, literature, dance, theatre and music. The popularity of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Catholic Church even though the church had lost the political control of Europe and was no longer aloud to make all music religious based. So, a lot freedom also arrived in the Barque period seeing many non-religious songs composed and instruments finally grouped together to make versions of an Orchestra. The Barque period started in Italy and grew as it spread across Europe, with the style improving ever so slightly as it came to new countries.
A remembrance before his life is taken away. It is also notice that some of the apostles seem to be in disbelief, by their facial expressions and body gestures alone. That is to say, that they have receive discomforting news. Neighboring on the left of Jesus, a figure is presented with his hands in the air in like matter of how someone will show that they surrender or the didn’t do the action he or she has been accused for. Such as clearing their name out of trouble. While illustrated on the right of Jesus, figures are talking amongst themselves mischievously as if they have news to bring forth onto the topic. This one painting tells the story clear enough to follow. As to where you have painters within the decade that tried to illustrate this very story and could not do recite such a clear interpretation. With details such as these, this painting will remain a timeless piece. The hidden details speak for it self without the artist having to give away the concept of his work. Nonetheless, the amount of effort it took to bring such a biblical story back to life to be relived once more. To continue, Michelangelo’s piece “Sistine Chapel Ceiling” is another well-detailed piece. This piece shows
Baroque was a period from 1600- 1750. In this period, people in different classes and different religion, they were fought for interests, and then baroque style was created. “Baroque”- this word has variety explanations. One of the explanation is from Spain – “Barroco”, it means Imperfect pearl. One is from an Italian – Charles de Brosses. He said barroco was from the ‘’ Logic’’, it means the description of Syllogism.
Renaissance and Baroque are the two periods, which are similar yet distinctively different. Renaissance is the rebirth of the ancient world, and the Baroque is the art of the Counter-Reformation. The Renaissance covers the period from15th to 17th century, and the Baroque era follows up from 1500s to 1750s. The two eras have some common similarities and also differences in style in art.
My thoughts regarding the Renaissance is the cultural changes of the ages. The changes of the times went from people needing Gods and Kinds to reign and rule over them to being very independent. Humanism did not agree with religious and secular literature and instead attached the greatest importance of dignity. You also witness that individualism instead of groups are strongly influenced by the Renaissance. The food source also changed such as raw material, grain even how they kept food from spoiling so soon changed. The need for tools changed as well, for example, the way they would carry grain or other material, instead of two men caring a barrel of grain through the technology of the age a rolling wheel was created. What changed
The fascination with the concept of light (both physical and metaphysical) is one of the distinguishing features of the Baroque period (1600-1750).