John the Baptist, are not depicted as ideals, perfect exterior forms but as specific and personal figures who are able to inspire and stir emotions. The viewer is no longer separated from the object of the painting, but becomes closer to it. In this sense, the viewer is able to relate to the experience of the characters. Young Mary is much more than an ideal of purity and grace; she becomes a representative of women, of believers, of children. The power is now in the hands of the audience who is able to attribute particular roles to the figures they see on the canvas. The content of the paintings thus becomes more intimate and emotional. Nonetheless, Baroque paintings continued to illustrate form and features similarly to the Renaissance, but it enriched the harsher lines and colors of the painting belonging to the previous centuries with the warmness of the chiaroscuro and the emotional depth of the inner psychological world. This allowed the audience to actively participate in the painting instead of simply looking at it from the outside. The viewer was no longer denied access into the experience on the canvas, but invited in its dynamic and deep setting. To conclude, it is safe to say that Baroque art does not represent an abrupt departure from the Renaissance. Despite important innovations such as the use of colors and lighting, as well as a deeper faithfulness to the details of tangible reality, Baroque art employs to a great extent the same themes and approaches as the art of the Renaissance. Baroque was a movement which resulted from a change in social order juxtaposed...
Moreover, the new Baroque style of the 16th and 17th centuries mirrored the growth of absolutist monarchies and was considered a manifestation of power in art; in fact, it is precisely this sense of dynamism and power that generates a sense of movement and great energy in Baroque paintings, sculptures and buildings. In some sense, Baroque art was a more realist continuation of Renaissance art, a continuation which focused on more or less the same artistic themes, but expanded them with the help of considerable advancement in terms of technique and artistic perspective.
There is a kaleidoscopic plurality of symbols and links among them, but it is easier to decipher the central meaning of the whole: the spiritual supremacy of the pope. Thus a political program was transformed into a beautiful masterpiece." (Findlen) Bernini believed that in architecture the main focus was on the material and the invention, then on the manner in which the parts were ordered and finally on the "perfection
Italian Renaissance Art Mannerism Mannerism is a period of European art that arose from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It went on until around 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style developed to take its place, but Northern Mannerism lasted into the first part of the 17th century, all through much of Europe. Stylistically, Mannerism includes an assortment of methods swayed by, and responding to, the
Baroque Period Annotated Bibliography Chaffee, Kevin. "Baroque sights, sounds at the gallery." The Washington Times, The National Gallery of Art set up a spectacular exhibit of the Baroque period that included scale models of baroque-era churches, palaces, military forts and grand public buildings. They had problems getting nearly 300 guests through the enormous exhibit. The huge exhibit took up the length of two entire corridors on the main and ground floors of the
The landscape diffuses in colors to give optical illusion of perspective and farness. The first figures, of the two children are softly modeled in lights and shades. The light is bright and clear and it seems to have no specific direction. Although Renaissance had great preoccupation with the study of light and the use of it to give volume, there will pass a longer time before artists would really use the
Art Three Baroque Artists The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze three works of art, Peter Paul Rubens' "Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" - 1618, Rembrandt Van Rijn's "The Descent from the Cross" - 1634, and Caravaggio's "The Death of the Virgin" - 1605/6. Specifically, it will contain an opinion and assessment on each of the works. Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus" is an oil on canvas
Art History Of the Western World Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow is from the High Renaissance period, which lasted from the 14th Century to the 16th Century. The Italian term "Madonna" is a medieval term for a noble or important woman, but in Western art it has come to specifically refer to work that depicts the Virgin Mother Mary. Biblical subjects such as the Madonna were very important to Renaissance painters
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