Baroque Art in Italy and
        Spain
THEME:

If it’s not Baroque, don’t
            fix it!
KEY IDEAS:
•Counter-Reformation flourishes in Baroque Italy, Spain, Flanders and France.
•Protestant Baroque art acts as a counter-voice in Holland

•Two schools of Baroque painting:
    • Classicists (Raphaelite)
    • Naturalists (Titian)

•Experimentation with different art forms: genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes

•Baroque architecture = majestic royal courts of Europe!
Italian Baroque
Carlo Maderno
Santa Susana
Rome, Italy
1597-1603
Giacomo della Porta
façade of Il Gesù
Rome, Italy
ca. 1575-1584
Carlo Maderno               What happened to Bramante and
façade of Saint Peter’s     Michelangelo’s vision of St.
                            Peter’s?
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1606-1612
Carlo Maderno
Aerial view of Saint Peter’s
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1506-1666
Gianlorenzo Bernini
baldacchino Saint Peter’s
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1624-33
gilded bronze
approximately 100 ft. high
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Scala Regia
Vatican City, Rome, Italy
1663-1666
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623
marble
approximately 5 ft. 7 in. high
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623
marble
approximately 5 ft. 7 in. high
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623
marble
approximately 5 ft. 7 in. high
Gianlorenzo Bernini
interior of the Cornaro Chapel
Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy
1645-1652
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
Cornaro Chapel,
Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy
1645-1652
Francesco Borromini
façade of
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
1665-1676
Francesco Borromini
façade of
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
1665-1676
Francesco Borromini
plan of
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
1665-1676
Francesco Borromini
dome of
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Rome, Italy
1665-1676
Francesco Borromini
Chapel of Saint Ivo
College of the Sapienza
Rome, Italy
begun 1642
Francesco Borromini
plan of the Chapel of Saint Ivo
College of the Sapienza
Rome, Italy
begun 1642
Francesco Borromini
dome of the Chapel of Saint Ivo
College of the Sapienza
Rome, Italy
begun 1642
Francesco Borromini
dome of the Chapel of Saint Ivo
College of the Sapienza
Rome, Italy
begun 1642
Annibale Carracci
Flight into Egypt
1603-1604
oil on canvas
4 ft. x 7 ft. x 6 in.
Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods
Gallery, Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy
1597-1601
fresco
Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods
Gallery, Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy
1597-1601
fresco
Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods, Triumph of Bacchus
Gallery, Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy
1597-1601
fresco
Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods
Polyphemus, Acis and Galatea
Gallery, Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy
1597-1601
fresco
Caravaggio
Conversion of Saint Paul
Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del
Popolo
Rome, Italy
ca. 1601
oil on canvas
approximately 7 ft. 6 in. x 5 ft. 9 in.
Caravaggio
Calling of Saint Matthew
Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesci
Rome, Italy
ca. 1597-1601
oil on canvas
11 ft. 1 in. x 11 ft. 5 in.
Caravaggio
David Victorious over Goliath
oil on canvas
43 1/4 x 35 7/8 in.
Caravaggio
Entombment
Chapel of Pietro Vittrice,
Santa Maria in Vallicella
Rome, Italy
ca. 1603
oil on canvas
9 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 6 ft. 15/16 in.
Daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, a painter




Artemisia Gentileschi
Self-Portrait (Allegory of Painting)
1630
oil on canvas
38 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes
ca. 1614-1629
oil on canvas
6 ft. 6 1/3 in. x 5 ft. x 4 in.
Guido Reni
Aurora
Ceiling fresco in the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy
1613-1614
fresco
Pietro da Cortona
Triumph of the Barberini
ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
1633-1639
fresco
Ceiling Frescoes
•What do these images have in common?
•What was appealing about ceiling
paintings?
Pietro da Cortona
Triumph of the Barberini
ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
1633-1639
fresco
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Triumph in the Name of Jesus
ceiling fresco with stucco figures
in the vault of Il Gesu, Rome, Italy
1676-1679
fresco
Fra Andrea Pozzo
Glorification of Saint Ignatius
ceiling fresco with stucco figures
in the nave of Sant’Ignazio, Rome, Italy
1691-1694
fresco
Spanish Baroque
José de Ribera
Martyrdom
of Saint Philip
(Bartholomew)
ca. 1639
oil on canvas
7 ft. 8 in. x 7 ft. 8 in.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Saint Serapion
1628
oil on canvas
3 ft. 11 1/2 in. x 3 ft. 4 3/4 in.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Still Life with Pottery Jars
oil on canvas
18 1/8 x 33 1/8 in.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Agnus Dei
oil on canvas
15 x 24 3/8 in.
Diego Velázquez
Water Carrier of Seville
ca. 1619
oil on canvas
3 ft. 5 1/2 in. x 2 ft. 7 1/2 in.
Diego Velázquez
Los Borrachos
ca. 1619
oil on canvas
64 3/8 x 87 7/8 in.
Diego Velázquez
Surrender of Breda
1634-1635
oil on canvas
10 ft. 1 in. x 12 ft. 1/2 in.
Diego Velázquez
King Philip IV of Spain
(Fraga Philip)
1644
oil on canvas
4 ft. 3 1/8 in. x 3 ft. 1/8 in.
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656
oil on canvas
approximately 10 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft.
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656
oil on canvas
approximately 10 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft.
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656
oil on canvas
approximately 10 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft.
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656
oil on canvas
approximately 10 ft. 9 in. x 9 ft.
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