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Baroque Grandeur Flashcards

1
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form used in Renaissance gardens

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  • symmetry/ axiality
  • outward looking
  • geometric form
  • interior/ exterior connection
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function renaissance gardens

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  • dynamism
  • expressions of power/ influence
  • allegory
  • iconography
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env’t context renaissance

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  • regional expressin
  • mediterranean climate
  • limited water
  • topography
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cultural context renaissance

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  • humanism
  • merging christian and classical influences
  • rebirth of knowledge
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what century did Baroque design appear?

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17th

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what is the 17th century described as

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Age of Reason

-advances in scientific knowledge challenged religious beliefs and Renaissance order

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what is most famous example of religous Baroque

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Saint Peter’s Square, Rome

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describe characteristics of St Peter’s square

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2 colonades with 4 rows deep of doric columns representing outstretched arms of church, obelisk in centre

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who was the Piazza designed by

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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renaissance vs baroque styles

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renaissance: order and harmony –> conception of villa/ garden as ensemble complete in itself
Baroque: extreme use of spacce –> space became ambiguous, illusionistic and distorted with optical tricks –> shooks one belief in the order of the world

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3 main principle in Baroque design

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  1. subdivision
  2. extension
  3. illusion
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Boboli gardens, Florence
who?
where?
why?

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Niccolo Tibolo designer

  • owned by Cosimo de’Medici
  • Florence, behind Pitti Palace
  • gardens celebrated the water Cosimo brought to Florence via constructing aqueducts
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alle def’n

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walkway lined with tree and shrubs

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bosco

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sacred wood

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parterre

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level space, usually rectangular and on a terrace near a house, laid out in decorative pattern using plants and gravels

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Isolo Bella, Lago Maggiore
where
who

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  • island Lago Maggiore

- Borromeo - built architectonic fantasy

17
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Isolo Bella, Lago Maggiore

concepts/ design

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  • attempted axial alignment but symmetry couldnt be achieved with palace so disguised by terraced gardens and curving stairs
  • water star of this design
  • baroque principles: grand proportions that have been distorted –> overwhelming, tension
18
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where did Baroque design extend to

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Persia, India, Holland France and England

19
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2 famous Baroque gardens in France

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  1. Versailles

2. Vaux-le-Vicomte

20
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famous baroque garden in Holland

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Het loo

21
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why is Het Loo considered “Versailles of Holland”

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  • axial layout, fountains, parterres and statues
22
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how did Baroque design in France shift?

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  • attitude towards nature changed –> no longer considered beautiful
    1. shrubs and tree trimmed
    2. contours graded
    3. rivers diverted
    4. lands inscribed with paths and allees
  • ground decorated with garden parterres
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where were parterres best viewed from? symbolized?

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  • high vantage point

- house gained new authority as symbol of visual control in garden

24
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who built Versailles and Vaux-Le-Vicomte ?

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Le Notre

25
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who was Vaux- Le–Vicomte built for

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finance minister for Louis 14th

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what was the intent of building Versailles

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  • duty to symbolize and project through his monarchy Frances power and intellectual leadership of the Western world
  • human’s domination over nature
27
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what is Borghese vase

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  • replica of original marble sculpture in Greece

- baroque ties to classical and neoclassical forms

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what are 5 design elements used in Versailles

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  • axial promenades
  • grand canals
  • stepped terraces
  • artificial cascades and fountains
  • bosquets
29
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bosquet

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block of trees and shrubs pierced by paths

30
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promenade

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public walk

31
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le Notres garden style

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  1. axial extension
  2. allees defined by ranks of tree
  3. intersections marked with fountains
  4. sculpture and monuments

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