The Baroque (continued)

(continuation of El Barroco I)

As for the technical points, the appearance of chiaroscuro , a resource that highlighted the detail that would take center stage in the painting through the game of lights and shadows .The main ambassadors of Baroque art were characters like Caravaggio , Veermer , Rembrandt , Velazquez , Pacheco Rubens and Murillo , among many others that manifested during this period.

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As for the sculpture, it can be said that it followed the foundations of the Renaissance , following a line of naturalistic character, but to Unlike this, the baroque sculpture tried to take away idealism from the image, turning it purely and exclusively into reality. The most renowned sculptor of this era was the Neapolitan Gian Lorenzo Bernini, creator of the Fountain of the four rios (located in Piazza Navona , Roma ) and collaborator of the famous sculpture Rapture of Proserpine, works composed of completely liberated bodies, which are no longer in a rigid state and pose, but show an intense dynamism, highlighting the movement and action giving more veracity and nature to the image.

In the matter musical two figures of great historical importance stood out: the German master Johan Sebastian Bach and the Venetian Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , known as il prete rosso (the red priest) because the musician was a priest and a redhead.

In which nto the literature, satira, culteranismo, classicism and conceptism emerged, speaking mainly about vanity, human life and criticism.Their main representatives were Don Luis de Gongora and Francisco de Quevedo (author of the famous satirical sonnet To a nose , in which the author refers to his deformed nose of a ridiculous and fun way).

The Baroque (continued)

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Finally, in terms of architecture, a completely new style was born in terms of ornamentation, in which the curved details, the moldings, columns, gilded and repeated forms are protagonists of the buildings.The appearance of new elements such as the Solomon column (coiled column, which can be seen for example in the int lower than the St.Peter's Basilica ) and the stipulate.An important independence is generated between the interior and the exterior, accentuating the light as the main element when designing, and the ostentatious details were generally of low quality, simulating wealth and pomposity, playing a bit with falsehood (this was in most cases, which does not mean that high quality elements have been used, such as case of Persian carpets, ceramics, window glasses, etc.) In general, the architecture was characterized by its colossal order, where its main and most used architectural element was the dome. Its main precursors were Bernini , Borromini and P.Pozzo.

You can say that Baroque concluded in 1750, but this is a generalization, given that it was varying according to countries and matter, lasting some arts more than others, and then be completely replaced by neoclassicism .

Via | Introduction to Baroque art

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