Baroque The Baroque is a period of artistic style that started around 1600 in Rome‚ Italy‚ and spread throughout the majority of Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. In informal usage‚ the word "baroque" describes something that is elaborate and highly detailed. The Baroque age is roughly divided into three parts: Early Baroque‚ High Baroque and Late Baroque. The Late baroque is synonymous with the Rococo period‚ which followed. The Baroque style is characterized be exaggerated motion
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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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Renaissance and was the most popular city-state of the Italian Renaissance. Florence attempted to revive the idea of Greek areté‚ the idea to strive for excellence of any kind. In addition to this‚ Florence also attempted
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World Hist. Honors Artistic Differences (Contrasts between pre- and post-Renaissance Italian art) The Renaissance led the mired middle Ages artistic scene into a new era of creative expression and enlightenment. Pre-Renaissance Italian painting was characterized by depictions of the “ideal” – it ignored the common people‚ and focused only on religious figures. This painting shows what appear to be three saints at a table‚ celebrating the Eucharist. Whether or not they are actually saints
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Influence of Humanism on Italian Art During the Italian Renaissance ‚ humanism played an important role in influencing the artist of that time in their paintings and what they drew. The definition of humanism is the denial of any power or moral value superior to that of humanity; the rejection of religion in favor of a belief in the advancement of humanity by its own efforts. This means that many of the philosophers‚ scientists‚ and artists of that time started to reject the
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of the human body reached its epitome in Western culture during the Renaissance. Such fascination with the human body developed both in a religious and erotic/secular sense. Throughout the Italian Renaissance period‚ nude characters reached a gradual progression in the incorporation of public and esteemed art‚ as before they were primarily hidden in private rooms or secretly shared as pornography. Eventually‚ with the shift of religious influence during the Renaissance‚ nude works became more publicized
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The Baroque Period The historic period which came after Renaissance and changed the worldwide picture in all areas was Baroque. It started in Rome in 16th century (1550-1640) in time when people were exploring the world around them. Baroque‚ which comes from the French word “baroque” and the Portuguese word “barroco”‚ mean deformed and misshaped. In a sense baroque is an appropriate term to describe this new form of ideas in time. The greatest role in the various expressions of baroque art had a
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One of the characteristics of the Italian Baroque is the realistic depiction of human figures‚ vivid use of color and foreshadowing techniques‚ especially in the paintings. In addition‚ the figures of the paintings seem to emerge from the background‚ giving huge differences between light and dark. The Italian baroque structure has a sense of movement and that of energy when in static form. The sculptures make the observers to have multiple viewpoints. The Baroque architecture has characteristic domes
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Baroque Music Opera was the new musical form of the Baroque period and it was very expressive of the baroque cultural values. By then end of the operatic form was stylized into a recipe‚ including improbable plots‚ small motivations for the characters‚ and magical transformations‚ which were signs of opera’s baroque nature. Oprheus united drama‚ dance‚ elaborate stage mechanisms‚ and scenery with music. Johann Sebastian Bach was one artist whose greatest legacy was religious music. His works
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differences between Northern renaissance art and Italian renaissance art. They are quite different. While Italian renaissance art tended to show the body in an idealistic way‚ Northern renaissance art hid the body. The art was very realistic‚ but drapery hid the body in a medieval fashion. That makes one major difference between the two: Italian was classical and Northern was medieval. Northern art had an immense amount of symbols in it. A good example of Northern art is the Merode Altarpiece‚ painted by
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