ARTS: Baroque Art

BAROQUE ART

BAROQUE PAINTING

·         Peter Paul Rubins – Life of Marie de Medicis

·         Nicolas Poussin – Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite

·         Rembrandt Hernandez – The Prodigal Son

·         Diego Velazquez – noblest and most commanding man among the artists of his country

-          Painter’s painter

-          Taught Bartolome Murillo

BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

·         Gian Lorenzo Bernini – St. Peter’s Basilica

·         Francesco Borromini – Church of St. Agnese

·         Guarino Guarini – Church of San Lorenzo

·         Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Balthasar Neumann – designed churches

·         Churriqueresque – elaborate Spanish baroque style (Alberto, Joaquin, Jose Churriquera)

·         Versailles – greatest Franch Baroque Building

-          Louis Le Vau & Jules Hardon Mansart

·         Sir John Vanbrugh – Blenheim Palace (most extravagant English Baroque palace)

·         Sir Christopher Wren – St. Paul’s Cathedral

ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE – final phase of baroque style
- light and delicate
- more elaborate decorations

·         Dominikus Zimmermann – Die Wies Church

PALLADIAN REVIVAL

·         Andrea Palladio – Renaissance Architect

·         Most important in England

·         Colen Campbell – introduced the style

·         Lord Burlington – leader of the movement

·         William Kent – Chiswick House (first great Palladian Revival Building)

NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

·         Inspired by Pompeii and Heculaneum cities

·         Sir William Chambers – Somerset House

·         Robert Adam – interior designer and furniture designer (Osterley Park House)

·         Pietro Bianchi – Church of San Francesco di Paola

·         Jacques Soufflot – Pantheon (church named after Sainte Genevieve)

·         Federal Style

·         Benjamin Latrobe – designs in Washington

·         Charles Bulfinch – statehouses of Maine and Massachusetts

BAROQUE SCULPTURE

·         The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Bernini)