Gardner Chapter 24

BAROQUE ART& ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY & SPAIN
(revised 8/08)

VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
Baroque 
Tenebrism 
Baldachin 
Counter-Reformation 


ITALY
ARCHITECTURE
Carlo Maderno (completion of St. Peter's, Vatican)
 Santa Suzanna, Rome, 1597-1603
 
 St. Peter's, facade, 1606-12

Francesco Borromini (1599-1667)
    San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,  1638-67, Rome 
       http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp./org/orion/eng/hst/baroque/quattro.html
       http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/renbrq/RMA/RMA042.html 
       http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/renbrq/RMA/RMA043.html

Gianlorenzo Bernini
     Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City, Rome, 1656-67

SCULPTURE
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/b/b-6.htm#bernini
  (Large Bernini site) 

*Baldacchino, 1624-33 
       http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bernini/gianlore/sculptur/1620/index.html

*David, 1623 
       http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bernini/gianlore/sculptur/1620/index.html

*St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, 1645-52, Cornaro Chapel, S.M. della Vittoria 
       http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/bernini_ext.html

PAINTING
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; 1573-1610)
  http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/caravagg/index.html
        (variety of paintings by Caravaggio) 

   Conversion of St. Paul,  c. 1601 (oil/canvas)
    http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/caravagg/p-carava16.htm

   Calling of St. Matthew,  c. 1599-1602 
       http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/calling/calling.jpg

   *Entombment,  c. 1603 
       http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/caravagg/p-caravag5.htm

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 ? c. 1653)
  *Judith SlayingHolofernes, c. 1614-20
 http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/g/p-agentileschi2.htm

Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
  Flight into Egypt, 1603-4, (oil/canvas)
  http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/carracci/p-carracc3.htm

  Loves of the Gods, ceiling, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 1597-1601

Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669)
  *Triumph of the Barberini, ceiling fresco, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1633-39
     http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/p/pietro/cortona/index.html


SPAIN
Jusepe Ribera (c. 1681-1742)
Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, ca. 1639.

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)
Saint Serapion, 1628 
  http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/european_paintings/index2.shtml

Diego (Rodriguez de Silva y) Velázquez (1599-1660)
Water Carrier of Seville, c. 1619 (oil/canvas)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/velazque/p-velazq33.htm

*Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656 
  http://museoprado.mcu.es/i45a.htm



Chapter Review Questions
1.  What are some of the political, economic and religious, scientific factors that contributed to Baroque art and architecture? 

2.  What are the formal characteristics of the Baroque style?  Discuss the role of the viewer as it pertains to Baroque art and architecture.

3.  How does Bernini's design and sculpture for the Cornaro Chapel (fig. 24-1 and 24-8) exemplify characteristics of Baroque art?

4.  Compare and contrast Caravaggio's Entombment (fig. 24-20) with Ruben's Raising of the Cross (fig. 24-34) in terms of subject, lighting, composition, and audience envolvement. 

5.  Compare Bernini's David (fig. 24-7) with Michelangelo's version of the same subject (fig. 22-13).   What Baroque elements does Bernini accentuate in his version?