Baroque

1. BAROQUE & ROCOCO
The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style easy to interpreted detail to
produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture,
literature, dance, and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most
of Europe.In Baroque architecture, new emphasis
was placed on bold massing, colonnades, domes,
light-and-shade (chiaroscuro), 'painterly' colour
effects, and the bold play of volume and void. In
interiors, Baroque movement around and through
a void informed monumental staircases that had
no parallel in previous architecture. The example
of Baroque architecture is the Cathedral of Morelia
Michoacan in Mexico. It built in the 17th century
by Vincenzo Barrochio, it is one of the many Baroque cathedrals in Mexico. Besides,
Baroque churches are also seen in the Philippines, which were built during the Spanish
period.
In painting, Baroque style featured "exaggerated
lighting, intense emotions, release from restraint,
and even a kind of artistic sensationalism".
Rococo is an
18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting
many aspects of the arts including painting,
sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration,
literature, music, and theatre. It developed in the
early 18th century in Paris. Though Rococo originated
in the purely decorative arts, the style showed clearly
in painting. These painters used delicate colors and
curving forms, decorating their canvases with
cherubs and myths of love.
Rococo architecture, as mentioned above, was
a lighter, more graceful, yet also more
elaborate version of Baroque architecture,
which was ornate and austere.