The Baroque

THE BAROQUE: The “Age of Bernini”
è characteristics: emphasis on grandeur, spaciousness, unity, and emotional impact
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1650): sculptor, architect, painter;
Colonnade for piazza in front of St. Peter’s Basilica
Versailles Palace: Marquis Louvois (architecture); Louis LeVau (1612-70) -- gardens
Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna: Leopold I’s response to Versailles
Art
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) – greatest painter of the era
Nicolas Poussin (1595-1665) – French Classicism
El Greco: Mannerism (1541-1614) --Emphasized dramatic and emotional qualities
Music
Monteverdi (1547-1643) Orfeo (1607)—first opera
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach (16?-1750)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Rococo (in France)
Characteristics: elegance, pleasantness, frivolity; contrasts emotional grandeur of Baroque
influenced Haydn and Mozart during the classical period in music (1770-1800)