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ITALIAN BAROQUE ART(FOCUS ON PAINTING)

Martin, Jan Michael

Masangcay, Sandra

Mendoza, Anjanette

Pilarta, NicoleReceno, Raymund

Zafra, Joanna

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An Overview

The word "baroque" was first applied to the art of periodfrom the late 1500s to the late 1700s.

It was the dominant style of art in Europe between theMannerist and Rococo eras, a style characterized by

dynamic movement, overflowing emotion and self-confident style.

It was encouraged by Roman Catholic Church, as thenobility saw the dramatic style of Baroque architectureand art as means of impressing visitors and expressing

triumphant power and control. Baroque-era often exhibited conceptions of monarchy,

iconography, handling of paint, and compositions aswell as the depiction of space and movement.



CharacteristicsCharacteristics

Baroque painters, sculptors, and architectssought to portray emotion, variety, andmovement in their works by appealing to the

senses. Other qualities include drama, grandeur,

richness, vitality, movement, tension, liveliness,and a tendency to blur distinction between the

various arts. Baroque Style was typified by strong contrasts invalue and bold ornamentation that added actionand drama to the art.



Some of the most

renowned Baroque-stylePainters



ANNIBALE CARRACI

Born November 3, 1560, Bologna

Annibale completed an altarpiece of the Baptismof Christ for the church of San Gregorio in

Bologna. In 1587, he painted the Assumption for the church of San Rocco

Carracci's best works are in fresco

Carracci was remarkably eclectic in thematic,

painting landcapes, genre scenes and portraitsacross the ages. He was one of the first Italianpainters to paint a canvas wherein landscapetook priority over figures, such as his masterfulThe Flight into Egypt.



Carracci's art also had a less formal side thatcomes out in his caricatures (he is generally

credited with inventing the form) and in his earlygenre paintings, which are remarkable for their lively observation and free handling.

He is described by biographers as inattentive todress, obsessed with work: his self-portraitsvary in his depiction.

17th century critic Giovanni Bellori praised

Carracci as the paragon of Italian painters, whohad fostered a ³renaissance´ of the greattradition of Raphael and Michelangelo.



Flight to Egypt (Most famous work)



AGOSTINO CARRACI

Born in 1557, died in 1602. Italian Artist who masteredthe media of painting and drawing using the BaroqueMovement.

Talented engraver and teacher. He also createddrawings of the human body with so much accuracy thatengravings produced from them were used as teachingtools two hundred years after their production.

In 1582, the Carracci founded the Accademia degli

Incamminati (Academy of the Initiated) with his brother, Annibale. It soon became the most popular teachingacademy in Bologna. They taught Mannerist ideas andemphasized drawing from life, honing talents one step ata time.



GUIDO, RENI Born on Nov 4, 1575 in Bologna, Italy

At the age of 9, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studioof Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined by Albani andDomenichino. He had collaborations with teams led by AnnibaleCarracci for fresco-styled decoration of the Farnese Palace.

He exalted the clarity of light, the perfection of the body and livelycolour. Toward the end of his life, Reni modified his style. Hispaintings became so airy as to seem insubstantial and werealmost completely monochrome. He also used long, flowingbrushstrokes and conveyed an atmosphere laden with intense

melancholy.

After Annibale Carracci's death (1609), he became the leader of the classical school of Emilian painters. His adhesion to thisschool can be seen in the frescos he painted in Rome.



DOMENICHINO Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) was born on October

21, 1581. He was an Italian Baroque painter of the BologneseSchool, or Carracci School, of painters.

He was nicknamed Domenichino, meaning ³Little Domenico³.He left Bologna for Rome in 1602 and became one of the mosttalented apprentices to emerge from Annibale Carracci'ssupervision.

Lanfranco accused Domenichino of plagiarism, specifically of having stolen the design of his great Last Communion of St.

Jerome from an altarpiece of the same subject Bologna by hisformer teacher, Agostino Carracci.

Imitation in his sense is not copying but a creative processinspired by rhetorical theory whereby revered models are notonly emulated but surpassed.



Michelangelo Merisi da

Caravaggio Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicilybetween 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine arealistic observation of the human state, both physical andemotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formativeinfluence on the Baroque school of painting.

After his mother died, he surrounded himself with art under the apprenticeship of a Milanese painter. He traveled toVenice, saw Da Vinci¶s works until he left Milan for Rome inmid-1592, running over "certain quarrels" and the wounding of a police officer. He arrived in Rome extremely needy andshort of money.

Nevertheless, he pursued his passion for art and so Realismreturned with Caravaggio's first paintings on religious themes,thus the emergence of remarkable spirituality.



Titled the Most famous painter in Rome, later he wascontracted to decorate the Contarelli Chapel.

Other works included Entombment , the Madonna di Loreto(Madonna of the Pilgrims), the Grooms' Madonna, and theDeath of the Virgin.

Caravaggio put the oscuro (shadows) into chiaroscuro.Chiaroscuro was practiced long before he came on the scene,

but it was Caravaggio who made the technique definitive,darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blindingshaft of light.

The Caravaggisti (or "Caravagesques") were stylisticfollowers of the 16th century Italian Baroque painter.

Caravaggio never established a workshop as most other painters did, and thus had no school to spread his techniques.Nor did he ever set out his underlying philosophical approachto art, the psychological realism which can only be deducedfrom his surviving work.



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