ARC 2701 Baroque and Rococo Architecture Italian, French, and Germanic

The ___ is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that

flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. It was encouraged by the Catholic

Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music.

Baroque

The Baroque is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that

flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. It was encouraged by the ___ ___ as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music.

Catholic Church

The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, grandeur, ___, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe.

theatricality

The style employs:

1. plentiful and intricate ___

2. strong flowing ___ (ovals and arcs more than complete circles)

3. ___ of proportion and geometry for dramatic effect

4. intermingling of ___ and ___ elements (the art spills out and across the architecture boundaries)

ornamentation, curves, distortions, art, architectural

___ = a form of illusionistic mural painting in which images of

architectural features are painted onto walls or ceilings so that they seem

to extend the real architecture of the room into an imaginary space beyond

the confines of the actual wall or ceiling. Uses trompe-l'œil paintings in

stucco frames, either real or painted, crowded with saints and angels and

connected by architectural details

Quadratura

the Baroque ceiling paintings were carefully created so the

viewer on the floor of the church would see the entire ceiling in correct

___, as if the figures were real.

perspective

A leading artist / sculptor of Italian Baroque was: ___

Bernini

___ and ___ are common motifs in Baroque art.

Clouds, sun rays

The ___ were large plaques carved of marble or stone, usually oval and with a rounded surface, which carried images or text in gilded letters,

cartouche

The ___ ___ is one of

the signature features of the

Baroque.

twisted column

Renaissance Architecture – Late Renaissance - Mannerism

Giacomo della Porta

Sant Andrea della Valle

The leading architects of Italian Baroque were:

___, ___, ___

Bernini, Borromini, Guarino Guarini

___ of art and architectural elements

, strong flowing ___

intermingling, curves

Bernini, Baroque Architecture

Chair of St. Peter

Bernini, Baroque Architecture

Piazza of St. Peter’s

Bernini, Baroque Architecture

Piazza of St. Peter’s

Baroque architects sometimes used forced ___ to create ___.

perspective, illusions

Bernini, Baroque Architecture

Scala Regia

For the ___ the stair tapers in plan and in section to exaggerate the depth and ___.

Scala Regia, importance

Bernini, Baroque Architecture

Scala Regia

In Baroque sculpture, groups of figures assumed

new importance, and there was a ___

movement and energy of human forms— they

___ around an empty central vortex, or

reached __ into the surrounding space.

dynamic, spiraled, outwards

Baroque Architecture - Italy

Trevi Fountain

___: ovals and arcs more than

complete circles

strong curves

Borromini, Baroque Architecture - Italy

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Guarino Guarini, Baroque Architecture - Italy

Palazzo Carignano

___, also referred to as "Late

Baroque" is an 18th century style which

developed as Baroque artists gave up

symmetry and became increasingly more

ornate, florid, and playful.

Rococo

The following are characteristics that ___ has, and Baroque does not:

1. The partial abandonment of symmetry, everything being composed of graceful

lines and asymmetric curves.

2. The very wide use of nature as inspiration for ornament; flowers, vines, shells, etc.

3. Pastel colors (whitish-yellow, cream-colored, pinks, light blues).

Rococo

The following are characteristics that Rococo has, and Baroque does not:

1. The partial abandonment of ___, everything being composed of graceful

lines and asymmetric curves.

2. The very wide use of ___ as inspiration for ornament; flowers, vines, shells, etc.

3. ___ colors (whitish-yellow, cream-colored, pinks, light blues).

symmetry,nature, Pastel

Balthasar Neumann, Rococo Architecture

Amalienburg

Rococo Architecture

Grotto Hall, at The New Palace

walls encrusted with ___, ___, ___, ___, and semi-precious stones

shells, stones, marble, quartz