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Day 6
Humanities
Baroque: 1600-1700
Characteristics to this era: drama, violence, eroticism, violence, virtuosity (means showing off) Not much orthogonal (straight lines 90 degree angle linear perspective). More like spiral.
Spiral represents motion – you bicuriously get into motion.
1600 is when physicists and astronomy took off. Invention of telescope.
Full of drama, violence, sex, motion fast/slow sounds. Much like our period today.
4 main national style of the baroque period:
counter reformation (Italian style), (florid) effort by catholic church against reforming by prodoscent. They used humanities as propaganda in order to keep people from breaking away from the catholic church. Caravaggio one of the most remarkable talents to ever live. Bernini – the greatest sculptor after micheal angelo.
2nd style French style (classical style) more restrained. Louis XIV (king) Versailles
3rd dutch: Rembrandt, Vermeer
4th Spanish: Velazquez
catholic created realism (paintings made u feel like you’re really there) to make faith more immediate.
carabaggio was obsessed with decapitation. Hence his paintings revealing heads being cut off.
calling of saint matthew. He was a money changer, very secular and apparently “was being called by jesus to be one of his followers” Catholic church created the image of jesus. Peter had his hand pointed the same way the paintings up in some
church in Italy the same way “the touch of god” created adam/eve etc.
doubting Thomas (painting) bible story: jesus was crucified and then Christians believe he came back to life (resurrection) 3 days later, then appeared to the aposels staying in that room (aposels were being hunted by the police/jews) Jesus just appeared like a ghost, and they thought they were hallucinating. Takes the hand of Thomas and makes him touches his wound to make him believe Jesus was real.
After the last supper, Jesus went to a garden represents his arrest. Hand gesture of jesus represents psychological state of mind of no resistance = the human in him. Painting called Taking of Christ.
David & Goliath.
Story from the Jewish bible. David was a shepard boy guarding the Isrealities. Being attacked by a big giant (goliath) nobody wanted to stand up to him. David had a sling and attacked goliath on his forehead.
chiaroscuro is a technique also used for paintings.
Bernini very important in the counter reformation baroque period.
Apollo & daphne – greek myth (Apollo god of poetry & music) like a lot of the greeks, he had afairs with earthly women. Moral girls, non goddesses. Always bad something happened to these girls. Fell in love with a naked girl called Daphne. Daphne tried avoided Apollo, therefore prayed to the gods to save her. They saved her by turning her into a tree.
Bernini was the great celebrity sculptorer in the baroque period.
Pluto/Hades saw a beautiful girl called Persephone. Abducted her to his underworld and kept her there until her mother to beg him to give the daughter back. Refused, because they got an “agreement”. Name of the paining Pluto & Persephone
Cerberus – dog who guarded the passage way to Hades.
Bernini St Teresa (MOST FAMOUS WORK)
Teresa famous saint woman. Ecstasy.
renaissance painting create one sculpture like david.
baroque many things.
Lots of virtuosity in the Baroque period.
The most extraordinary style of the baroque st. teresa
camena obsecaro ? camera without the film. Painting, lens box.
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