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3. The Baroque period was
the time when arts_
painting, music,
architecture, and literature_
greatly flourished. It
covered the period between
1600-1750. cc

16. This structure was built
around the ivory and
wooden chair, once to be
believed to be the
original chair used by St.
Peter .The throne was
designed with stained –
glass, gilded bronze
statues of four Doctors of
the Church (St. Ambrose,
St. Augustine, St.
Athanasius, and St. John
Chrysostom), stucco, and
marble.

17. Used to be an
old open space
at the east of the
basilica. Bernini
transformed this
open spaced into
an “impressive
approach” to the
church.

18. Pluto and
Proserpina (162 –
22), David (1623),
Depicted
narrative
moments in
emotive action

19. Ecstasy of St.
Teresa (1647 –
1652), Bernini
showed the
dramatic
encounter
between St.
Teresa and the
angel.

20. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
leading painter during the period. He
practiced the revolutionary style which
showed realistic and close- up figures
with dramatic play of light and shade
(chiaroscuro).
Works were the: The Calling of St.
Matthew (1599- 1600) based on the
gospel; The Taking of Christ (1602); The
Rising of Lazarus (1609), a depiction of
the physical process of resurrection.

24. Commenced in the year
1750.
 Marked by a change in
art. World art borrowed
the classic style from
Greece and Rome and
worked with simple but
elegant balance, proportion

25. Highlights of the Period
American Declaration of
Independence (1776)
Fall of Bastille (1789)
 Execution of Louis XVII
the publication of the “Lyrical
Ballads” of Wordsworth
Coleridge (1789)

26. Neoclassical designers work in
simple forms and colors, avoiding all
unnecessary complications.
Sculpture was probably the most
expressive Neoclassical artistic
medium. Art in the Neoclassical
period celebrated the masterpiece
Cupid and Psyche (1787 -1793) by
Antonio Canova. The sculpture
displays the greatness and
idealization of the period.

29. •Jacques- Louis David’s work The
Oath of the Horatii (1748- 1785)
The painting represents a scene
from the early history of ancient
Rome, in which the three brothers
vow to represent the opposing
party. The use of classical elements
in art at this time formed style
called NEOCLASSICISM.

30. Well- known painters during the
Period
Jean August Dominique Ingres
who painted Antiochus and
Stratonice (1843).
Nicolas Poussin who painted
The death of Germanicus
(1627).

32. •Took
place during the mid- 19th century.
Highlights of the Period
•The proclamation of Napoleon as
Emperor (1804).
•The invention of the first working steam
engine (1814).
•French Revolution (1848) which
overthrew Louis Philippe, King of France
•The recognition of Beethoven for his
composition, symphony 9.

33. In visual arts, the popularity of the members
of the French Romantic school was also
recognized. This includes:
Theodore Gericault (French, 1791- 1824).
Eugene Delacroix (French, 1798).
Henry Fuseli (Swiss- English, 1741- 1825).
Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746- 1828).

34. Romanticism was a movement
that emphasized imagination and
emotion over reason and order.
The Romantic Style in fine arts
and literature stressed passion,
imagination and intuition, rather
than logic than reason. There is
expressiveness of emotions and
free, spontaneous action in art and
literature.

36. Another great artist of the Romantic
style is Theodore Gericault (1791-1824)
who contributed greatly to the
development of Romanticism in
French paintings. He also used
political and social injustices as his
themes, with a play in the human
psychology of his subject. This was the
best seen in his work, Mad Woman
with a Mania of Envy (1822-23), as well
as in his 1819 masterpiece, The Raft of

38. The Romantic theme and style also
focus on nature in relation to humanityman’s ‘’longing to return nature’’ and
his or her insignificance to its vastness.
This can be seen in his many works of
the landscape artists during the period.
Among these artists are Caspar David
Friedrich (1774-1840) of the Germany
and the English painters, John
Constable (1774-1851) and Joseph
Mallord William Turner (1775-1851).

39. •In his Moonrise over the Sea
(1830-35), Friedrich merged the
human form with the mod of
nature. He painted the vast and
barren scene as an echo of the
mod of the two figures in
silhouettes, both clad in medieval
dress. The Dress of the figures
Evoke a longing for past era.