EUROPE 1400-1750
-Takes intensely spiritual forms that have come out of the Renaissance, maintaining the high naturalism and building on it but putting it in an environment where it is completely accessible and real -Always involves the viewer -Grand scale -Theatricality and ornateness -Playing with light/dark -Geometry/shapes more creative -Experimentation with space by expanding frescos beyond ceiling -Call back to high renaissance style
Italian Baroque identifiers
-Referred to also as the High Renaissance -Focus on Human Anatomy and Proportions -Divinely inspired geometry -Chiaroscuro -Atmospheric Perspective -Linear Perspective -Triangular composition -De-emphasis of obvious symbols of the divine -Earthly backgrounds -Centrally planned buildings
Italian Renaissance identifiers
-Virtuosity of technique -Self-conscious contrived attitudes -Self-awareness and breaking rules -Self-referential -Attempting to shock audience with subject matter and presentation -Grotesqueness -Artificiality -Void center -Unnatural color Movement -Unstable groupings -Less recognizable symbols -Less naturalistic -More exaggerated -Moving away from the stable pyramid composition of the Renaissance to circular movement
Mannerism identifiers
-Portrait of everyday life -Subdued religious themes -Naturalism -Value placed on role of the artist (inserting themselves into the art)
Northern Baroque identifiers
-Highlight mercantilism -Interest in the body/anatomy -DETAIL! Details to get closer to god (personal devotional objects) -Oil paint -Not much attention to space (but this allows us to see more) -Minute detail and higher level of symbolic meaning -Attention to light and texture -Realism -Iconography -Increased interest in commissioning paintings to aid with prayer for people to use in their homes
Northern Renaissance identifiers
-Small private chapel -Decorated with frescoes -Narrative scenes (trompe l'oeil, faux marble panels) -Ceiling is star-studded blue sky with images of Christ and Mary and other saints and figures -Chiaroscuro and foreshortening
Proto-Renaissance identifiers
-Naturalistic -Man superior to nature -Extreme detail -Mix of intellectual and religious -Hierarchical scale to determine social class
Spanish and French Baroque identifiers
