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Italy in the 17th
Century:
Pt. 1: Sculpture
Is there a baroque style and
what is it?
Bernini: Apollo
and Daphne,
1624
artistic developments:
"sculptural" rather than painterly: emphasis
on non-linear movement
depiction of extreme emotion
allegorical and theatrical
tenebrism
"dynamism, theatricality, and elaborate
ornamentation, all used to spectacular
effect..." (p. 670)
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Bernini:
Pluto and Persephone, 1621-2
David, 1623
5'7" ht.
Ecstacy of St. Theresa (Coronaro Chapel), 1645-1652
Part 2: Architecture
Revising St. Peter's after the Reformation
facade by Carlo Maderno, 1606-12
piazza and colonnade by Bernini (completed, 1666)
dome: Giacomo della Porta's dome (as built) compared
with Michelangelo's second design (on the left)
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Bernini's architectural sculpture in St.
Peter's:
Baldacchino with view toward Cathedra
Petri (reliquary throne of St. Peter)
1624-33
solomonic columns
ht. of baldacchino = 100 ft.
Borromini: San Carlo
alle Quatro Fontane,
1638-41; 1665-7
made for the Discalced
Trinitarians
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San Ivo della
Sapienza
1642-50
a chapel for a
theological
university
Guarini: Chapel of
the Holy Shroud,
Turin, 1667-94
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Pt. 3: Painting
Caravaggio: Calling of St. Matthew, 1600-01, for the
Contarelli chapel, oil/canvas, 11'1 x 11'5
the Cerasi Chapel:
Martyrdom of St. Peter (left wall)
Conversion of St. Paul (right wall)
1600-01
each: oil/canvas, 7'6 x 5'9
Artemisia Gentileschi: Danae, c. 1612, oil on copper, 16 x
20-5/8"
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Judith beheading Holofernes, ca 1620 (left) and 1612 (right)
La Pittura (SelfPortrait as the
Allegory of
Painting)
1630, o/c, 38x29"
Giovanna Garzoni: Plate of Figs
c. 1651-62, gouache on parchment
Spain
Francisco de
Zurburan:
St. Serapion
Juan Sanchez Cotan: Still Life with Game Fowl, ca 1600/03;
oil/canvas, 2'2 x 2'10
1628
o/c
3'11 x 3'4
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Velazquez: Water
Carrier of Seville
ca. 1619, o/c, 44 x
32 in.
Velázquez: The Surrender of Breda, June 2, 1625
1635, oil on canvas, 10'1 x 12'
Las Meninas
(Maids of Honor)
baroque painting as a response to the
Renaissance:
1656
oil on canvas
10'5 x 9'
Ren. clarity and order versus Baroque
tenebrism and drama
Ren. stasis versus Baroque movement
extreme naturalism and extreme psychology
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