History: Baroque

Baroque

tendencies toward emotionalism and deliberate manipulation and/or misuse of classical forms and details

Solomonic columns

Columns with twisted shafts

Caravaggio

Pinnacle of Italian baroque (Painter)

Bernini

Pinnacle of Italian baroque (Sculptor)

Borromini

Pinnacle of Italian baroque (Architect)

Caravaggio

He secularized religious art, making saints and miracles seem like ordinary people and everyday events

Caravaggio

(painting) Calling of Saint Matthew

Caravaggio

(painting) The conversion of St. Paul

Gianlorenzo Bernini

He was typified by the use of illusion, excitement and spectacular effect. He carves marble as easy as clay.

Bernini

(sculpture) The ecstasy of Saint Therese

Bernini

(sculpture) Baldacchino

Artemisia Gentileschi

The first female painter to be widely known and appreciated; a precociously gifted artist who traveled widely and lived an eventful, independent life.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

A prince of painters and a painter of princes

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

(painting) Descent from the Cross

Rembrandt van Rijn

greatest Dutch master of the 17th century

Rembrandt van Rijn

(painting) The Night Watch

Jan Vermeer

Dutch, The Master of Light, he used "camera obscura" to aid his accuracy in drawing

Jan Vermeer

(painting) Woman Holding a Balance

Jan Vermeer

(painting) Girl with a Pearl Earring

Diego Velazquez

Spain's major gift to world art; he is considered a master of realism, he achieved his effect with loose brushstrokes

Diego Velazquez

(painting) Las Meninas

Nicolas Poussin

His work exerted enormous influence on the course of French art for the next two centuries and chose to paint in what he called "la maniera magnifica"

Gianlorenzo Bernini

He made St. Peter's Piazza

Francesco Borromini

A perfectionist whose style differed radically from any other; he was a rebellious, emotionally disturbed genius

Francesco Borromini

(architecture) San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Carlo Maderno

(architecture) Santa Susanna

Baldassare Longhena

(architecture) Palazzo Pesaro

Baldassare Longhena

(architecture) Santa Maria della Salute

King Louis XIV

The Sun King

Nicolas Fouquet

(architecture) Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte

Louis LeVau

(architecture) Chateau of Versailles

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

(galleries) Chateau of Versailles

Andre LeNotre

(gardens) Chateau of Versailles

Pietra Dura

Inlay using marble, granite, and other semiprecious stones

Commode

A low cabinet or chest of drawers, often elaborately decorated and usually standing on legs or short feet

Armoire

A usually tall wardrobe cabinet

Bureau

A writing desk, especially : one having drawers and a slant top

Chaise lounge

Placed traversely at the foot of the canopied and draped four-poster bed

Ebonizing

A technique which attempts to make a piece of plain timber appear to be ebony

Boulle-work

The special inlay technique using tortoiseshell and German silver, brass, or pewter.

Marquetry

Applying small flat pieces of wood of different colors to a surface to make figurative compositions

Ormolu

Gilding with gold paste

Torcheres

A stand made to hold a candle or lamp