questions) Albrecht Durer Pieter Bruegel the elder (Return of the Hunters and The Harvesters – at the Met) Hans Holbein the Younger Baroque (four questions) Rubens (excluding the “Allegory of Sight”) (see Smarthistory and Met essay on Rubens and Van Dyke) Caravaggio. (see Met essay on Caravaggio) Bernini (see Met essays on Bernini and on Baroque Rome) Borromini Velazquez (Las Meninas – see Smarthistory – and Juan de Pareja‚ at the Met) See also Met essay on Velazquez. Nicholas
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of five had mastered multiple instruments. At the young age of six he was touring European concert halls and opera houses dazzling the audiences with his works that included sonatas‚ symphonies‚ masses‚ concertos and operas‚ marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. His timing to erupt into the classical music scene was perfect because the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods were transitioning toward more full-bodied compositions with complex instrumentation which played into
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Saint Lucy was a local saint of Syracuse‚ who had been denounced as a Christian by her former suitor and had died in 304 from the tortures inflicted by local pagan authorities. Caravaggio may have worked in haste to produce a picture before the feast of Saint Lucy on 13 December. Originally‚ Saint Lucy’s head was severed from her body but later Caravaggio joined it and left just a slit in the front of her neck - perhaps recalling Saint Cecilia‚ whose still-intact body with a gash in the nape of the
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Peter Paul Rubens perfectly represents artistic traditions and philosophical beliefs of the Baroque period because of Ruben’s techniques and subject matter. These techniques include the strong contrast between light and dark‚ the usage of rich‚ flamboyant colors which is offset by a dark background‚ the depiction of motion and facial expressions‚ the rendering of high detail‚ the naturalistic rather than ideal figures‚ the enlarges sense of space‚ the aim to create a dramatic effect‚ the theme of
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Running Head: Baroque Works of Art IP 5 Running Head: Baroque Works of Art 1 Baroque Works of Art The Baroque period of art was from the 1600’s to the 1700’s. This period in art history began with the Catholic Church launching an internal reformation to establish clear definitions of the church’s theologies‚ as well as their doctrines. A sector of the church’s reform was to educate the members
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History of Art Final Paper I think the most important part of art is understanding how styles developed over the years and what influenced those developments. Some art movements develop based on political context‚ while others are created as a contrast to the current popular art movement. From a historical standpoint‚ I feel that portraiture is the best way to capture the essence of everything throughout the past. If I were an art director‚ I would choose to a portraiture display to show the progression
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that featured Baroque art as its main movement. As is common of the age‚ Procaccini creates a sense of space and depth not through linear and aerial perspective‚ but rather through varying light and shadow. This is one of the traits of Baroque art‚ as innovated by Annibale Carracci. To further establish the piece’s deep roots in the Baroque movement of 17th Century Italy‚ Procaccini’s use of light and shadow is much like the use of light and shadow by one of the poster boys of the Baroque movement –
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Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa is an excellent example of what a lament should be. A lament is always an expression of grief or sorrow and usually over a loss of love. This loss of love may be due to the death of the loved one or betrayal (such is this case). The lament is not a complaint about unhappy or unrequited love‚ but it is a manifestation of sadness. In most cases‚ Lamento della ninfa included‚ the lamenter is tormented simultaneously by the past‚ present‚ and future: the memories
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the concert excerpts‚ construct a comparison of these two concerts. For this assignment I chose to compare and contrast two concerts. The first concert is from the modern era‚ while the other is a Baroque Era concert originating from the 17th Century preformed by a modern day orchestra. The Baroque Era Concert takes place in a large modern day Lutheran Church in front of a small crowd of well dressed onlookers. The second concert that I chose for this assignment is a modern day rock concert from
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paintings during the Renaissance‚ and Baroque. Since the Renaissance‚ the nude has remained an essential focus of Western art. Whether approving or modernizing classical ideals‚ artists from the seventeenth century to today have honored the nude form and made it an endlessly compelling means of creative expression. The fascination of the continued classical relic was approached from Baroque artists from the nude to the antique tradition. Among the Baroque era‚ the nude figure in art became much
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