Italy and Spain 17th cent.shw Italy in the 17th Is there a baroque style and what is it? Century: Cultural and historical tendencies: natural sciences, psychology, and rhetoric
Pt. 1: Sculpture artistic developments: "sculptural" rather than painterly: emphasis on non-linear movement depiction of extreme emotion allegorical and theatrical tenebrism
Bernini:
Pluto and Persephone (Proserpine), 1621-2, marble, 8' 4"
Apollo and Daphne, 1624-5
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David, 1623 5'7" ht.
Ecstacy of St. Theresa (Coronaro Chapel), 1645-1652
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Part 2: Architecture
Revising St. Peter's after the Reformation facade by Carlo Maderno, 1606-12
piazza and colonnade by Bernini (completed, 1666)
dome: Giacomo della Porta's dome (as built) compared with Michelangelo's second design (on the left)
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Bernini's architectural sculpture in St. Peter's:
Baldacchino with view toward Cathedra Petri (reliquary throne of St. Peter)
1624-33
solomonic columns ht. of baldacchino = 100 ft.
Borromini: San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane, 1638-41; 1665-7
made for the Discalced Trinitarians
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San Ivo della Sapienza
1642-50
a chapel for a theological university
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Guarino Guarini: Palazzo Carignano in Turin, c.1679-81
Pt. 3: Painting Caravaggio: Calling of St. Matthew, 1600-01, for the Contarelli chapel, oil/canvas, 11'1 x 11'5
the Cerasi Chapel:
Martyrdom of St. Peter (left wall) Conversion of St. Paul (right wall)
1600-01
each: oil/canvas, 7'6 x 5'9
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Entombment (Deposition) of Christ
1604 oil/canvas 9'10 x 6'8
Artemisia Gentileschi: Danae, c. 1612, oil on copper, 16 x 20-5/8"
Judith beheading Holofernes, ca 1620 (left) and 1612 (right)
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La Pittura (Self- Giovanna Garzoni: Grapes, Pears and Snail Portrait as the c. 1651-62, gouache on parchment Allegory of Painting)
1630, o/c, 38x29"
Spanish Baroque Painting
Francisco de Jose di Ribera: Zurburan: St. Serapion Martyrdom of St. Philip, 1639, o/c, 1628 92 x 92" o/c 3'11 x 3'4
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Velazquez: Water Velázquez: The Surrender of Breda, June 2, 1625 Carrier of Seville 1635, oil on canvas, 10'1 x 12' ca. 1619, o/c, 44 x 32 in.
Philip IV of Spain Las Meninas 1644 (Maids of Honor) 1656 oil on canvas 51 1/8 x 39 1/8 in. oil on canvas
10'5 x 9'
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