Baroque – Dutch Flemish • The popularity and success of the "Baroque" was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church. They realized that artists' dramatic style could show religious themes with elaborate artistic styles • The secular (nonreligious) aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and competitors • This period used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce emotions such as drama, tension, exuberance, and excellence in sculpture, painting, literature, and music • The style started around 1600 in Rome, and spread to most of Europe • For the first time, Baroque sculpture often had multiple ideal viewing angles Primary Artists: Caravaggio Peter Paul Rubens Diego Velasquez Bernini Rembrandt Vermeer
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Baroque – Dutch Flemish• The popularity and success of the "Baroque" was encouraged by the
Roman Catholic Church. They realized that artists' dramatic style could show religious themes with elaborate artistic styles
• The secular (nonreligious) aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and competitors
• This period used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce emotions such as drama, tension, exuberance, and excellence in sculpture, painting, literature, and music
• The style started around 1600 in Rome, and spread to most of Europe• For the first time, Baroque sculpture often had multiple ideal viewing
angles
Primary Artists:
Caravaggio Peter Paul Rubens Diego Velasquez
Bernini Rembrandt Vermeer
Caravaggio• Michelangelo Merisi – successful artist but
his turbulent lifestyle led to fights, drunkenness, murder and he spent years fleeing Rome and the police
• He used live models such as street people • Claimed he didn’t need to study past masters• He created realistic and “lived in” natural
emotions• His use of intense, unseen light sources cast
extreme contrasts of light and dark on the scene, called chiaroscuro influenced generations to come