Baroque periods

Italian-born painter and mostly associated with Baroque style art. He got the name Guercino from Guercio, which means cross-eyed in Italian. I am going to give a detailed formal and content analysis of the artwork. The formal analysis will be as detailed as possible and will allow you to have an astonishingly similar imagined piece to the actual artwork, after reading the analysis. The content analysis will be how I interpret this artwork and how it reflects the period

how the shades come together and how the details of the figures are. The bodies have detail, you can see the curve of Venus’ waist. One notices more details the longer it is observed. The style that characterizes Rubens’ magnificent piece is the baroque style. This style is described

An art history documentary, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, showed painters from the Baroque time period. English historian Simon Schama was the presenter of the film. He would send us back in time through the use of reenactments and vintage film footage of the famous Italian Baroque painter: Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini was a sculpture in the early 1600’s at the heart of Rome. He started carving out marble at a young age. His father, Pietro, was also a sculpture from Florence. I believe his father

The Baroque period saw many influential artists and sculptors, however, for the purpose of this assignment I am going to reflect on the works of Bernini and Caravaggio. Bernini’s sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting, the Crucifixion of St. Peter will be what I am going to discuss. Both artists rose to prominence during the Baroque era by employing the artistic techniques unique to the era and playing into the vast influence the Catholic Church held over creativity of this

There were two Italian artists in two different time periods but artistic styles paralleled one another, Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Baroque movement and Antonio Canova of the Neoclassicism movement. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was a Baroque sculptor and created Apollo and Daphne (c. 1622-25) that displayed in Rome's Villa Borghese. Made of Carrera marble, and is 243 cm and 96 inches (Bernini). It's a mythological story of the God Apollo and his pursuit of Daphne but she, was an unwilling participant who

Introduction European design has evolved over the centuries from the Renaissance era of the 15th century to Baroque era of the 16th century right through to the Rococo era of the late 1700’s. Even though the style might have changed, some elements can be traced across all three periods. This essay will explore the similarities and differences in the aforementioned eras by singling out 4 different examples from these eras and how these influenced or affected the society and patrons who commissioned

golden age of painting and architecture in Italy." This golden age was named “The Baroque” and is defined by the highly ornate and extravagant style. Following the Renaissance, Baroque architects sought to use the Roman vocabulary found in the previous Renaissance era and created pieces that evoked emotion through drama and scale. St. Peter’s Baldachin was one of the most significant works built in the Baroque period. By analyzing the work’s embodiment of its cultural, religious, and political environment

Baroque is a complex term used to describe what was thought to be a messy, vaguely disgusting style. Potentially coming from the Spanish words "barrueco" meaning a "rough or imperfect pearl" or “berruca” the term for “wart”, Baroque came to be a generalized term for art, architecture, music, and sculpture from the 16th century to the early 18th century (Klindt-Jensen 2015). Not only was the “Baroque period” long lasting, but it was far reaching as well. From Holland to Spain, Germany to France, the

different periods carried various messages according to the artist theme based on different artistic work. In many occasions when people wanted to pass the information, they can only use paintings to communicate. The following two paintings were done in different time periods. The first painting is Rococo type of art while the second is known to be a good example of a Baroque type of art. Both paintings were aimed at passing messages of leadership though they were created in different time periods. The

painter's during the Baroque times. Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, Starting off with Peter Ruebens (23-26) pg. 738, The Raising of the Cross is one in a progression of compositions taking into account the torturous killing of Christ this painting was created by Peter Paul Rubens. This painting was created somewhere around 1609 and 1610 with oil on canvas. It is currently shown in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium. He was a Flemish artist that painted in Baroque style, his artistic