key points

• counter reformation led by catholic church aginst protestants

• tried to steer away taking good parts of renassaince using good parts

• communicated religious themes and invoked an emotional involvement (response to protestant reformation)

• catholic countries as decoration for church

• style → exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance and grandeur

• chiascuro often used (extreme play between light and dark) → often very high contrast and dramatic atmosphere

• coined rococo as become more decorative and elaborate

general characteristics

• high renassaince mixed emotion and movement of mannerism

• asymetrical composition for balance; spiral compositions or restlessness

• shapes melt into one another → foreground and background combine

• chiaroscuro → most cases subject face and hand lit up

• painterly style → movement of figures/light, high degree of technical ability

• colour → glowing rich colour

• distortion → figures often in exaggerated poses

• subjective style → opinion and emotion important

• art theatrical, dramatic, full of movement

• capturing a single moment

• naturalistic

Michelangelo Merisi da Carvaggio

• important figure in early baroque art

• figures, even classical and religious, in normal clothing or as normal people

• make scripture almost palpable

The calling of Saint Matthew

• the moment which matthew convinced to follow

• main character one with halo

• dramatic lighting → enough light to fill the room, but only face is highlighted

Name

• jesus (in light) accepting what is about to happen, humble, young, fragile

• evil people → make them look bad so you hate

• being cruxified

Supper at emmaus (will be in exam)

• resurrection of jesus (no one believed)

• softer facial features → effeminate

• way he says hello makes them know

• guy on right immatating the cruxificion

• 1601

• carravagio

• thought he saws a ghost

• break bread with him

• face in light, surrounded in shadow

• chiaroscuro

Rembrandt (1606-1669

• almost like a timelapse through his life

• known for self portraits

• dramatic and lively

• chiaroscuro

The anatomy lesson of dr. Nicolaes Tulp

• teaching

Sir peter paul rubens

• most influential of the flemish baroque

the massacre of the innocents

• biblical massacre of the innocents of Bethlehem