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    Baroque Art Research Paper

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    one Baroque art what is baroque art and its features Baroque is an artistic style prevalent from the late 16th century to the early 18th century in Europe.It is most often defined as "the dominant style of art in Europe between the Mannerist and Rococo eras‚ a style characterized by dynamic movement‚ overt emotion and self-confident rhetoric".The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent‚ in response

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    classical art from ancient Greece and Roman. Neoclassicism characteristics were serious‚ unemotional‚ and sternly heroic ("Answers.com‚" 2011). The social condition that may have contributed to the advent of this style was art itself a reaction of Rococo and Classical Art. Partly stimulated by the discovery of Roman ruins a Herculaneum and Pompeii‚ along with publication in 1755 of the highly Influential book Thought of the Imitation of Greek Work of Art‚ by a German art historian and scholar Johann

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    Renaissance means ’rebirth’ or ’recovery’‚ has its origins in Italy and is associated with the rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization. The age of the Renaissance is believed to elapse over a period of about two centuries‚ approximately from 1350 to 1550. Above all‚ the Renaissance was a recovery from the Middle Ages and all the disasters associated with it: the Black Death‚ economic‚ political and social crises. For the intellectuals‚ it was a period of recovery from the "Dark Ages"; a

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    when sculpture and black art intrigued him. His work‚ "Two Nudes" reflects this attitude. Cubism soon followed after this. Picasso began experimenting with the many facets of Cubism. Cubism was developed in stages: analytic‚ synthetic‚ hermetic‚ and rococo. These techniques were not only useful in painting but in collages as well. Picasso met Eva Marcelle Humbert‚ and fell in love with her but the war

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    intimidating. The palace was originally built to be a summer home for the royal family‚ and it was originally built in 1717. Empress Elizabeth had the palace rebuilt in 1756 because she thought it was outdated. When it was rebuilt‚ it was designed in a more Rococo style‚ which is where all the excessive gold‚ porcelain‚ and other riches came to be prominently on display. While Catherine may have intended for the palace to be a simpler summer vacation palace‚ Elizabeth wanted it to display her power‚ wealth

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    Departing from the Rococo style of the mid Seventeenth Century where decadence and luxurious lifestyles were symptomatic of the aristocracy‚ Neoclassicism emerged out of an increasing tendency to value the public virtues of classic Greek and Roman cultures and attempted to convey those morals in the subjects represented through a sense of order‚ harmony and proportion. These virtues included patriotism‚ morality‚ self sacrifice‚ and "the right action" above all else (Sayre‚ 2009). Jacques Louis

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    Painters and Their Craft.

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    born in Sudbury‚ Suffolk‚ in 1727. His father was a cloth merchant. Thomas soon evinced a marked inclination for drawing and in 1740 his father John Gainsborough sent him to London to study art. He stayed in London for eight years‚ working under the rococo portrait-engraver Gravelot. He also became familiar with the Flamish tradition of painting which was highly prized by London art dealers at that time. “Road through Wood‚ with Boy Resting and Dog”‚ 1747 was a typical “genre painting”‚ obviously influenced

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    The Baroque Research Paper

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    THE BAROQUE Historical Background Welcome to “History through Art”. Today we’ll be looking at the history‚ culture and art of the Baroque‚ a period of turbulence that began about 1545. It was a time when the Renaissance celebration of all humanity switched its focus to the rich‚ self-centered privileged class who could afford to sponsor artists to immortalize their opulent life-style. The wealthy also were patrons to artists who depicted both religious and secular scenes with great motion

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    movement. The expansion‚ evolution‚ and redefinition of the European standard classical education‚ the rise in commissioned art and architecture and the refinement of art scholarship‚ and the general reaction to the exorbitant styles of Baroque and Rococo revived interest in antiquity and necessitated a return to principles of classicism. In part a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalisation of nature‚ Romanticism

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