Baroque

=BAROQUE 1600-1700 = Encompassed many European countries and was a far-reaching and long lasting period that affected not only art, but music and theater and literature.
 * used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.
 * started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
 * The popularity and success of the Baroque style encouraged by Roman Catholic Church, as part of counter reformation, give the poor non-educated masses something to look at, must hook them on Catholicism again. Art was almost like their marketing campaign so it had to be dramatic.
 * arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.
 * Aristocracy saw dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.
 * “Baroque” was originally a derogatory term that meant irregular, contorted and grotesque
 * Galileo declares the Earth revolves around the Sun, not vice versa.
 * Mozart produces first opera at age 12.
 * Reformation has already occurred as has the Catholic counter reformation
 * continued development of Protestant religions

Caravaggio
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 * Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is his full name
 * chiarascuro- Italian literally means “light and dark”
 * dramatic style of lighting image and modeling figures
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">radical naturalism, lit dramatically, realism to point of showing flaws, not idealized like Michelangelo
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">worked from live models, not sketches, worked more quickly in oils
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">thought of as radical because of this

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artemisia Gentileschi - 1593-c.1653

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Daughter of one of Caravaggio’s followers, Orazio Gentileschi
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Seen as strong feminist painter who depicted women in roles of power standing up to men
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> She was raped and put on trial herself
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Was one of few women accepted into The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, same academy that Michelangelo was a member of years before.
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camera Obscura
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