The Italian Renaissance was a very difficult time period in European history. The arts were flourishing‚ while the city-states in Italy fought bloody battles with each other and within themselves. Bribery and murder were not uncommon tools for men to use when they wanted power. Meanwhile those same rulers patronized the arts a great deal and they would commission the best artistic minds of the time to build‚ design and paint their palaces and churches and later on their own portraits
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The Baroque Art era is classified by many as Early Baroque‚ High Baroque‚ and Late Baroque periods. The Rococo Art era is often said to be part of the Late Baroque period. The time frame of the Rococo era and whether it is one and the same as the Late Baroque period have been in debate through the years. Although the Baroque Art and the Rococo Art periods are sometimes classified as one in the same‚ they are actually quite distinct and unique. The Baroque Art period was between 1600 and the
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To many‚ Baroque art was a period of art history that could be interpreted in many different ways. To Robert Neuman‚ Baroque art was simply put as an art style that wanted to bring art to life and to really immerse the viewing audience in the work. Baroque art was an art that was so real‚ you felt as if you could reach into the painting and pull an object out of it or touch the smooth surface of a sculpture and feel real skin. It was art that pushed the boundaries between real and unreal as well
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The term Baroque means an irregularly shaped complex form. It came from the irregularly shaped pearl meaning unnatural and strange. This is completely different‚ from a description of the music of the time. Musical styles greatly different from artistic styles of the time making it virtually impossible to draw parallels between the two. Instead‚ one needs to draw independent conclusions about Baroque music. One example which we heard in class was Handel’s oratorio called Solomon‚ Act III. The
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Looking Assignment One The Renaissance period in art manifested itself differently in the various Italian city-states as the artists in those cities expressed the ideals in their own way. As the style shifted into the High Renaissance‚ the concepts of ordered space and mathematical precision came to the forefront of artistic thought‚ especially among the Italian artists. This focus on an intellectual approach to art came as the result of a perceived lack of such intellectualism during the medieval
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Baroque 1) Rococo was a style preeminently evident in small works such as furniture‚ utensils‚ and small sculptures. Rococo is the last style of the French monarchies and was carefree and playful. Rococo art centered on romance and love and emphasized tonality‚ softness and rich colors. Rococo art contrasted Baroque art as it tended to avoid heroic events and religious iconography and emphasized Hedonism. The word Rococo derives from Rocaille‚ which means shell‚ and Rococo art used curvaceous
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Baroque art is a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half. It was characterized by the free and sculptural use of the classical orders. Artists would implement the baroque style of art in their paintings in order to express concerns or symbolize ideas. A famous Spanish artist was Diego Velazquez. During the 1640s and 1650s‚ Velázquez served as both court painter and curator of Philip IV
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Baroque: Protestant vs. Catholic Before the purity of Neoclassicism‚ even before the carefree artists of the Rococo era‚ there was the dramatic and emotive Baroque. The term "baroque" is said to have been derived from the Portuguese word for an irregular pearl‚ and is certainly an adequate description. In the wake of what has become known as the Protest Reformation‚ the Catholic Church held the infamous Council of Trent. This eighteen year deliberation addressed several aspects of Catholicism
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Within my first semester of my sophomore year of highschool I have encountered projects that have helped me increase my presentation skills. The project that was the most help was the Baroque art analysis presentation. Within my previous year I would get nervous and anxious and sometimes speed through my presentations and read off the slides. The project I had for biology in my freshman year was a bit troublesome and I would stutter a lot with words such as like‚ um and yeah. After the project I
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humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science. Many dramatic changes occurred during this time in the fields of philosophy‚ literature‚ and art. New emphasis was placed on enjoying life and the world around man‚ and talented individuals sought self-gratification through art and philosophy (Vary). In Italy‚ the Renaissance presented through literary and art themes a new humanistic conception of man. The rise of the Medici
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