01/10/2017 1 Baroque Architecture Or, a World in Motion St. Lawrence, 10/1/2017 Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017 - 10 - 01 , Beaudoin Sunday, October 1, 2017 Course Outline Movements of the Renaissance Michelangelo and Mannerism Bernini and Borromini From the Renaissance to the Baroque: facades From the Renaissance to the Baroque: St. Peter’s Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017 - 10 - 01 , Beaudoin Key Notions -Colossal -Greek/Latin cross -Plan (axial and central)
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Baroque Architecture
Or, a World in MotionSt. Lawrence, 10/1/2017
Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017-10-01, Beaudoin
Sunday, October 1, 2017Course Outline
Movements of the Renaissance
Michelangelo and Mannerism
Bernini and Borromini
From the Renaissance to the Baroque: facades
From the Renaissance to the Baroque: St. Peter’s
Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017-10-01, Beaudoin
Key Notions
-Colossal-Greek/Latin cross-Plan (axial and central)
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Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017-10-01, Beaudoin
Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017-10-01, Beaudoin
Michelangelo’s toying with Classicism inspired Mannerism, a movement that paralleled the Late Renaissance until the arrival of the Baroque
Baroque architecture aims at suggesting movement 1) by warping Classicism (e.g. the circle to the oval), 2) by the idea that ‘more is better’ (e.g. multiplication of supports), and 3) by playing with lines, namely broken ones
Review
Baroque Architecture, St. Lawrence, 2017-10-01, Beaudoin
The “expansion” of the world fragilized man’s confidence in his understanding of it and shattered his idealized epistemological tower
However, with reality superseding idealism, a new dynamic approach to scientific analysis took hold of man’s spirit, which translated in art by a focus on movement and no-longer-idealized Classicism