The Baroque Era
The Baroque Era
The Seventeenth Century
Nikita Reid
“A General Overview of the Chapter” During the end of the sixteenth century to the mid eighteenth century, the Baroque Era prospered in Europe and its provinces. This section studies the Baroque expressions and the political setting against which they created. The writing of this period incorporated various subjects and structures, some recognizable yet numerous new and inventive. As the government developed progressively absolutist the theater entered into a golden age in France. Three playwrights written by Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and the comedic satirist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin also known by his stage name Moliere transformed French dramatic literature. In England, Stuart …show more content…
It originally began in Italy but made also made its way to France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. Amid this time period, artists were encouraged to exhibit stronger religious features. Light, realism and naturalism, lines, and time were characteristics of the Baroque art. Baroque music highlighted the use of rhythm and melody. Baroque music was written for listening pleasure and the glory of God. It was sacred with universal appeal. The interest was growing in secular music. Opera was a major artistic innovation of the 17th century. It was a play that was sung, not spoken. It had an audience of aristocrats and middle classmen. There was also a new focus on instrumental music and instrumental accompaniment to voices. There was also new emphasis put on chords and the use of BASSO CONTINUO. Baroque literature consists of metaphors, emblems or symbols, and hyperbole. Baroque literature was created to move its readers to a more passionate state. It was often complex similar to the Baroque art and architecture. The English period put importance on the abstract which concentrated on the unreal rather than the supernatural. The Baroque literature period lasts from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the neoclassical …show more content…
The subjects of plays turned out to be less centered on religion and more centered on the collaborations or disclosures of mankind. The Baroque style of the theater was abnormal for the time, frequently exuberant and considered obscene because of offensive clothing designs, extensive stage settings, and enhancements. Moreover, the time period delivered a portion of the world's most regarded writers and was the premises for contemporary theater. Writers of Baroque theater, for example, William Shakespeare and Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, composed plays about legislative issues, the universe, or the appropriateness of private life. As playwrights composed more complicated plots the stage became more decorative. This combined drama with fine art. The Baroque came out with the appearance of special effects to the stage as well as buildings for production. The first theater was built in Venice and many more followed throughout
The Seventeenth Century
Nikita Reid
“A General Overview of the Chapter” During the end of the sixteenth century to the mid eighteenth century, the Baroque Era prospered in Europe and its provinces. This section studies the Baroque expressions and the political setting against which they created. The writing of this period incorporated various subjects and structures, some recognizable yet numerous new and inventive. As the government developed progressively absolutist the theater entered into a golden age in France. Three playwrights written by Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and the comedic satirist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin also known by his stage name Moliere transformed French dramatic literature. In England, Stuart …show more content…
It originally began in Italy but made also made its way to France, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. Amid this time period, artists were encouraged to exhibit stronger religious features. Light, realism and naturalism, lines, and time were characteristics of the Baroque art. Baroque music highlighted the use of rhythm and melody. Baroque music was written for listening pleasure and the glory of God. It was sacred with universal appeal. The interest was growing in secular music. Opera was a major artistic innovation of the 17th century. It was a play that was sung, not spoken. It had an audience of aristocrats and middle classmen. There was also a new focus on instrumental music and instrumental accompaniment to voices. There was also new emphasis put on chords and the use of BASSO CONTINUO. Baroque literature consists of metaphors, emblems or symbols, and hyperbole. Baroque literature was created to move its readers to a more passionate state. It was often complex similar to the Baroque art and architecture. The English period put importance on the abstract which concentrated on the unreal rather than the supernatural. The Baroque literature period lasts from the end of the Renaissance to the beginning of the neoclassical …show more content…
The subjects of plays turned out to be less centered on religion and more centered on the collaborations or disclosures of mankind. The Baroque style of the theater was abnormal for the time, frequently exuberant and considered obscene because of offensive clothing designs, extensive stage settings, and enhancements. Moreover, the time period delivered a portion of the world's most regarded writers and was the premises for contemporary theater. Writers of Baroque theater, for example, William Shakespeare and Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, composed plays about legislative issues, the universe, or the appropriateness of private life. As playwrights composed more complicated plots the stage became more decorative. This combined drama with fine art. The Baroque came out with the appearance of special effects to the stage as well as buildings for production. The first theater was built in Venice and many more followed throughout