timeline: baroque and rococo. baroque and rococo the arts of the 1600s are known as baroque and the...

TIMELINE:Baroque and

Rococo

Baroque and Rococo•The arts of the 1600s are known as Baroque and the arts of the 1700s became Rococo.

Baroque• This style began in Rome, Italy in the 1600s and

spread throughout most of Europe due to the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Baroque meant irregular, grotesque, and contorted.

• Baroque art contained exaggerated movement to produce drama, tension, and exuberance within the piece.

• This term described the movement, curves, and frivolous elegance seen in art and architecture.

Baroque• Paintings of the period contained

twisted figures, movement, and dramatic lighting.

Aeneas’ Flight from Troy, 1598 Barocci

Baroque• Statues appeared in hallways,

gardens, and even lined rooftops.

• Particular sculptures of the era were groundbreaking because they implied movement and psychological intensity.

David, 1624Bernini

(David preparing to throw the stone to take down Goliath)

- sculpted for a Cardinal’s villa

The Baroque Period• Scientific knowledge made monumental

gains during the Baroque period.

• Scientific discoveries from this period include Newton’s laws of gravity, calculus, laws of basic chemistry, and the beginning of modern medicine.

The Baroque Period• Western European kingdoms expanded in

the wake of exploration.• France created trading posts and colonies

in Canada and the Mississippi Valley down to New Orleans.

• France became the dominant power of the western world, and French became the language of culture and diplomacy.

The Baroque Period• France built lavish courts for kings and

nobles. • King Louis XIV epitomized the glory of court

life.• His preoccupation with everything on a

grand scale was not simply an expression of taste – the arts were used as tools to illustrate the power of the state and the position of the king as ruler by divine right.

The Baroque Period• Artists became residents of the court,

painting portraits of the king, his family, and friends.

The Baroque Period• The architecture at this time was extremely

ornate, inside and out.

• Stylized curves and leaves, gold leaf and gold paints, silks, plaster work in designs of cherubs, and many other types of decoration made interiors appear like oaks with much icing.

Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France

Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France

Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France

Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France

Palace of Versailles, 1632

Palace of Versailles, 1632 Versailles, France

Palace of Versailles, 1632

The Baroque Period• King Louis created elaborate rules of etiquette and

occupied every moment with trivial duties and entertainments.

• The monarchs and nobility of this period, both men and women, dressed in powdered wigs, high heels, laces and ruffles, jeweled buttons and buckles with jewelry on both hands and their necks.

• Elaborate balls, carnivals, and festivals were held on most any occasion.

Louis XIV of FranceRiguad1701

The Baroque Period• With France as the forefront for lavish

living, it gave way for a new artistic movement.

Rococo• Rococo was a term given to a refined form of

Baroque art. • The style developed in the 1700s in Paris, France

as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry, and strict regulations of the Baroque style.

• Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid, and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.

• Rococo was more ornate and made strong usage of asymmetrical designs, curves, and gold.

Rococo• King Louis XVI and Queen Marie

Antoinette ushered in the waive of Rococo in Versailles.

Rococo• Their ornate and lavish fashions

spread the Rococo style throughout all of France.

Rococo• Fashions of silk, satins, and laces with

lavish jewelry and stylized wigs were realistically and beautifully painted in rich colors.

Marie Antoinette at age 13

Portrait of Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria

Martin van Meytens

1767

King Louis XVI at age 20

Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France

Joseph Duplessis1776

Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria

Jean-Baptiste Gautier

1775

Marie Antoinette at age 19 in her coronation robes.

Louis XVI, King of France

Antoine-Francois Callet

1789

Marie Antoinette

Archduchess Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

Louise Le Brun1778

Rococo• It was a time when the wealthy were happy

and carefree and the lower classes suffered in poverty.

• This difference would bring about the rebellions of both the American colonists and the French lower classes.

Rococothroughout

Europe

Church of the Augustinian Cannons, 1763Polling, Germany

St. Andriy’s Church, 1744

Kiev, Ukraine

Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren, 1737

Ottobeuren, Germany

Imperial Abbey of Ottobeuren, 1737

Ottobeuren, Germany