baroque Flashcards
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DURING THIS TIME (baroque):
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the protestants were in conflict with the catholics
2
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baroque: the protestants criticized the cult of images while
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the catholics embraced the religious power of art
3
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who used tenebrism and chiaroscuro
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caravaggio
4
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in the BAROQUE era, the focus was on:
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the story being told
5
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chiaroscuro:
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dark to light
6
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tenebrism:
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full starkness
7
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baroque:
central europe:
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italy (the vatican)
8
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baroque characteristics
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- emotional intensity
- moment in time
- dynamism
- diagonals
- energy/movement
- involving the viewer (zoomed in)
- real/not idealized
- lighting
- interrupted contours (sculpture)
9
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baroque characteristics: acronym
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EMDDEIRLI (i’m dearly)
10
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exceptions to religious questions/french baroque:
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Lorrain and Poussin (french, but with religious subject matter)
11
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Dutch baroque:
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- middle class patrons
- landscapes, still lifes
- forbade religious images in church
PROTESTANT AND DEMOCRATIC
12
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main artists
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- caravaggio
- bernini
- lorrain
- poussin
- p de hooch
- vermeer
- rembrandt
- rubens
- van dyck
13
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KEY baroque characteristics
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time, light, space, foreshortening, chiaroscuro, tenebrism
