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Baroque & Neoclassical Art
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Baroque art (c.1600-1750) is characterized by ornate details, exaggerated motion, intense light and shadow, and grandiose ornamentation. Common subjects included religion, mythology, and idealized portraiture.
Famous Baroque artists include Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Bernini, and Vermeer.
Chiaroscuro refers to the dramatic use of light and shadow. Baroque artists like Caravaggio used chiaroscuro to create a dramatic sense of volume and for emotional and spiritual impact.
Examples of Baroque architecture include St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Palace of Versailles in France, and the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
Neoclassicism (c.1750-1830) rejected the ornate Baroque style in favor of the classical ideals of reason, restraint, and order drawn from ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture.
Key Neoclassical artists included Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Antonio Canova. Important Neoclassical architects were Robert Adam and John Soane.
Neoclassicism aimed to revive the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture, emphasizing order, clarity, moral vigor, and restrained emotion.
Baroque music was ornate and complex, while Classical music transitioned to a lighter, more clearly structured and elegantly balanced style, as exemplified by composers like Mozart and Haydn.
Baroque painters favored religious, mythological, and historical subjects, as well as dramatic portraiture. Neoclassical painters focused on moralizing stories from ancient texts.
The Rococo style emerged in the early to mid 18th century as a more lighthearted, ornamental elaboration on Baroque art before the Neoclassical reaction against it.
The Baroque helped establish many conventions of Western art while Neoclassicism codified the ideals that continued to shape academic traditions well into the 19th century.
Baroque architecture emphasized grandeur, drama, and ornament, while Neoclassical architects looked to the simplicity and reason of ancient Greek and Roman styles.
Religion was a major patron and subject matter for Baroque artists. Neoclassicists were more influenced by philosophy and looked to secular ancient sources.
Baroque sculpture tended to be dramatic and extravagantly ornate, while Neoclassical works strove for idealized realism modeled on antique sculpture.
Baroque art aimed to inspire spiritual feeling and awe, while Neoclassicism focused on portraying moral truth through idealization of classical forms.
Baroque paintings used rich, warm colors and dramatic shading, while Neoclassical works favored more reserved, cooler tones and even lighting.
Mythology was a major source of subject matter for both Baroque and Neoclassical artists who looked to ancient Greek and Roman stories.
Baroque art made frequent use of complex allegorical imagery, while Neoclassicism favored more straightforward narratives from ancient sources.
Baroque art was theorized as affecting the senses and emotions, while Neoclassicism drew on Enlightenment ideals of reason and virtue.
Royal patrons facilitated the development of both ornate Baroque art designed to glorify rulers, and Neoclassicism's idealization of ancient republican virtues.
Dramatic scenes from the Bible, mythology and allegory were typical subjects for ornate Baroque ceiling frescoes and large-scale paintings.
Baroque sculpture tended to show dramatic, twisting poses and emotional expression, while Neoclassical works idealized the calm rationality of ancient forms.
Major centers included Rome, Paris, Venice, Antwerp and Amsterdam for Baroque art, while Neoclassicism spread from Rome and Paris.
Genre scenes became popular in the Dutch Baroque, while Neoclassicists preferred to depict idealized scenes from ancient stories.
Baroque interiors featured intricate stuccowork, gilding and grand ornamentation, while Neoclassical spaces were more restrained and inspired by ancient models.
Baroque landscapes showed atmospheric effects and drama, while Neoclassical landscapes idealized nature through the lens of ancient poetry and philosophy.
Scientific discoveries like the laws of perspective influenced the naturalistic Baroque style, while Enlightenment philosophy shaped Neoclassicism's rational ideals.
The courtly culture and absolutist rule of monarchs like Louis XIV cultivated extravagant Baroque art, while ancient republican values fueled Neoclassical philosophy.
Printed books and engravings helped disseminate the dramatic chiaroscuro effects of Baroque art, while the Neoclassical style spread through widely-circulated archaeological folios.
Trade with Asia and the Americas supplied exotic materials used in ornate Baroque decorative arts. Neoclassicism was fueled by archaeological discoveries and ethnographic interest.
In the Baroque period, music and art shared an ornate, dramatic and emotive style, while Classical music and Neoclassical art embodied ideals of balance and restraint.
Baroque sculpture showed figures in dynamic poses expressing intense emotion. Neoclassical sculpture emulated the idealized realism and rationality of ancient works.
The Catholic Church's Counter-Reformation agenda promoted emotive, dramatic Baroque art to inspire spiritual feeling and devotion among the faithful.
The Protestant Reformation's rejection of religious imagery contributed to the shift away from dramatic Catholic Baroque art towards Neoclassicism's secular ancient sources.
Studies from life models were essential for depicting naturalism and emotion in Baroque art, while Neoclassicists carefully planned their idealized compositions.
Academies codified principles of Baroque naturalism, while later establishing Neoclassical doctrines based on ancient Greek and Roman models.
While united by drama and naturalism, Baroque art showed differences like the Venetian love of color vs the Roman tendency toward sculptural figures.
Baroque theorists focused on art's ability to move the viewer's emotions and senses, while Neoclassicists valued reason, restraint and moral virtue.
Complex allegorical symbolism was prevalent in Baroque religious and mythological works, while Neoclassicism favored more straightforward ancient symbols and stories.
Baroque artists gained elevated status as creative geniuses breaking from past conventions, while Neoclassicists were respected for their erudition in reviving ancient ideals.
Baroque artists drew inspiration from dramatic works like plays. Neoclassicists looked to ancient Greek and Roman epics, odes and philosophical writings.
Baroque gardens featured intricate parterres, fountains and grottoes. Neoclassical landscapes drew from idealized pastoral scenes of antiquity.
Baroque portraiture showed dramatic lighting and captured the subject's personality, while Neoclassical portraits strove for idealized beauty and virtue.