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ART of the 1500-1600sthe door opens to the Baroque
•Mannerism replaces Classic perfection•Counter-Reformation in Italy and Spain•Louis XIV in France
Mannerism (1530-90) bridges the stability and classicism of the Renaissance with the
restlessness and drama of the Baroque
Rome sacked by Spain in 1527Spain and Italy become centers of
Counter Reformation
An international court culture develops, centered in France with Louis XIV;
great artists and musicians are shared, creating grand and impressive works for
aristocracy
Zaccari, Rome, entrance portal, 1593
Mannerism….how can you beat Renaissance perfection???
The Martyrdom of St. MauriceAnd the Theban Legion,El Greco, 1581-84Jesus over paganism
Tintoretto, Last Supper, 1592
•Crowd the composition
•Tilt the planes
•Elongate the bodies
Mannerism (1530-90)
• a stylistic period between High Renaissance and Baroque
• something that is affected or exaggerated• younger painters had to live up to legends of
Michelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael and knew they couldn’t improve on the past
• Painters, therefore, painted “in the manner of” the great artists
• Madonna with the Long Neck, 1534-40
• oil on wood• exaggerated
proportions• meaningless objects in
background• tiny St. Jerome, an
aesthetic and scholar
Parmigianino (1503-1540)
Counter Reformation/Italy, Spain (1534-1670)•Themes switch from Renaissance pagan/myth to Baroque religious drama
•Artists, encouraged by the Catholic church, appeal to the common man by making the bible “real”; biblical figures in modern clothes expressing the drama of everyday life
•Churches are spacious and light; religion is to be experienced through the senses(Jesuit meditations on the torments of the senses to experience hell)
•Major Counter-Reformation countries—Italy, Spain, Austria, France
Religious transformation---Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, 1601
Caravaggio1571-1610
Calling of St. Matthewc. 1597
MedusaPainting on a shield
c. 1600
TENEBRISM
Counter Reformation
Caravaggio’s David
drama--art as a stage--active lines, diagonal planes
ArtemisiaGentileschi
(1593-1653)
Judith Slaying Holofernes,two versionsThe calmer Judith on the right is thought to have had her tense facial lines removed during a painting restorationc. 1620
Judith and servantwith head of Holofernes
Counter Reformation
Spanish BaroqueDiego Velazquez
1599-1660Spanish court painter
Water Carrier of Seville, 1619Caravaggio-esque, but cool and detached
Las Meninas, 1656
A new realism, brush-stroke impressions, as the eye naturally would see it
Paints in his own cross when becoming a knight
St. Teresa in Ecstasy, 1645
Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25
David, 1623-24
Gian LorenzoBernini
1598-1680
Italian Baroque
Floating marble