The Baroque and Rococco

The Baroque

• Tied to the Catholic Counter - Reformation

• Involves religious and political change

Key Characteristics of Baroque Art

• emotional intensity (drama)

• Motion and movement

• chiaroscuro

• sensory and realism

Bernini

• sculptor, architect and stage designer

• designed columnades in the Colonnade

St Peter’s Baldacchino

• columnades - formed by 2 double rows of pillars, topped with statues of saints and biblical figures

• heavily decorated, dramatic

• bronze angel scultures

Cathedrea Petri