Baroque

Baroque paintings• Baroque art is characterized by great drama,

rich, deep color, and intense light and dark shadows

• Portraits are intentionally dramatic, pompous and outrageous

• Baroque artists chose the most dramatic point, the moment when the action was occurring

• This art evoked passions and emotions• Caravaggio,Rembrant,Rubens, Diego Velázquez,

Poussin and Vermeer

The most famous baroque paintings

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

* 29.9. 1571, Caravaggio - † 18.7.1610, Porto Ercole

• He was Italian baroque painter, one of the most important figures of world painting

• Young Caravaggio started to teach as a painter in the workshop of artist Simone Peterzana

• In 1591,he traveled to Rome and started to work in a few workshops

• He was a brilliant rebel,he invented his own way of painting

• His life was full of conflicts with law, battles and he had to run away very often.He run away to Genoa,Malta,Sicily and Tuscany

• Died 7.18 1610 on fever

Caravaggio´s masterpieces

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi4.3. 1678, Venice † 28.7. 1741,

Wienna• Vivaldi was an Italian priest and

baroque music composer and violin virtuoso

• He was called ,,Prete Rosso“ (Red priest) because of the color of his hair

• He worked as a teacher of violin, of cello and led the girls' orchestra

• In 1717 he received the title of maestro di Cappella and composed in the service of austrian prince.In this times he created his masterpiece- Four seasons

• Vivaldi composed 500 instrumental concerts,50 operas,86 sonatas and a lot of symphonies, masses, anthems and songs

• He died very poor and he was buried on hospital cemetery in Wienna

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Was English poet and

playwright.He is often called Englands national poet and the Bard of Avon. His plays have been translated into

every major living language. Shakespeare was born and

brought up in Stratford-upon-avon. At the age of 18,

he married Anne Hathaway with whom he

had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and

Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor

and writer.

(baptised 26.4.1564-died 23.4.1616)

• Comedies:-As you like it-The comedy of Errors

-The Tempest• Poems: -Shakespeares sonnets

-Venus and Anodis-The Phoenix and the Turtle• Histories: -King John

-Richard II. • Tragedies:-Romeo and Juliet

-Julius Ceasar-Hamlet

• Apocrypha:-The Bird ofMerlin-Sir John Oldcastle

-Edward III.

Baroque in architecture• Characteristic features of the style were mainly rich decoration, from

gold to marble.

• In baroque style were built temples and monasteries , later were built secular buildings like palaces , castles and mantiones.

• Building windows and portals were beautiful decorated and they‘ve got irregular form.

Baroque in architecture

• These buildings were lighter than before , where the light was one of the ways to increase drama .

• Walls , ceilings and domes covered with paintings depicting figures or mythological characters and giving rise to almost infinitely high ceilings.

• The material used for construction of buildings particularly bricks and mortar. The walls were plastered with a thick layerof mortar , without distinction of building materials from which they were built.

Palace of Versailles

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