Essays on Baroque

Abstract

The birth of art had served humanity in a variety of purposes. And this purpose has changed throughout the course of human history. Humans use art to showcase their religious belief, to express emotions, to depict the beauty of an individual or a particular landscape, to record a significant event and for propaganda. Moreover, the way humans perceive art are constantly changing. Cultural art arises from the need to express emotions and the different aspects of cultures. On the other hand, modern-day contemporary art is inclined to make use of various objects and to combine genres which make the ...

Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens

Prometheus Bound is an oil painting showing the punishment of Prometheus. It was being painted between 1611 and 1618 by Peter Paul Rubens. This is a joint work including the eagle painted by the animal painter Frans Snyders though Kimball notes that Rubens himself stated to be an original by his own hand (67). The artist himself described his work as “the flower of my stock (Atkins)”. The Greek play Prometheus Bound was the basis of the painting. The painting is a prominent example of Baroque art. It is the central piece in the PMA’s exhibition “The Wrath ...

Rembrandt's, The Night Watch, is perhaps the most classic example of a Baroque painting and Leonardo Da Vinci's, The Mona Lisa, is one of the most famous paintings. Both paintings are oil- based and the artists made use of light and shadows to produce a greater effect. Da Vinci uses the sfumato technique to achieve a light and shadow effect. He makes the light bounce off the subject's skin in certain places while other parts of the painting are left in darker shadows (Gherardini). In comparison, Rembrandt is known as the master of light and shadows and made masterful ...

Abstract

Religious art has been present in art history for a long time. However in different periods it was used in different ways. In Early Renaissance people used to show their faith with it, whereas in the High Renaissance and later Baroque, it became a tool in the hands of the Church. Nonetheless, history and the process of art development have provided us with plenty of artists and their masterpieces for all the future generations to study. The works of Antonello da Messina, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt van Rijn are considered the best examples of each period in question ...

The works of the artists, Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441), Caravaggio (1561-1610) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) represent almost the entire span of the Italian Renaissance period which occurred from the 14th to the 16th Centuries. Van Eyck was a Flemish painter who painted naturalistic portraits and religious painting on oak panels. Considered to be the leading painter of his day, his works differed from other great Early Italian Renaissance works in that his works recorded his faithful observation of nature , an influence of the Renaissance in the north, rather than the classically idealized works characteristic of the Early Italian ...

Trans-World Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Airport (1956-1962)

Opened in 1962, the Trans World Flight Center of the John F. Kennedy Airport is one of the finest structures belonging to the Organic Modern Period that emerged in the mid-20th century.1 What makes this style truly remarkable was the fact that it is based on neo-futuristic designs as well as embodying strict adherence to geometrical proportions, the creation of functional space for the passengers, aircraft, employees, and maintaining harmonious interaction of the structure in its environment.2 The structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, a notable architect and one of the prolific figures that proposed designing the concept of ...

The shift towards the Modernist Period from the decadence of the Baroque happened as a result of the outrage and disapproval towards lavishness in creating works of art, a trend once dominant and fashionable amongst the wealthy circles. What emerged as a result of this isolation was a new artistic movement that focused more on inspiring awe and sublime rather than theatrical presentation of the iconography. The term Modernist period has been debated throughout the centuries by the scholars since this period holds accountable of the changes in government and the people’s way of thinking. In this genre ...

Surfaces in visual arts evolve according to the technology present in a particular time. Surface in art is defined by the sense of touch which is either rough or smooth. Materials also contribute to the visual texture of the arts; for instance, the medieval paintings are done using variety of materials such as mosaics, vellum, and regular wall paintings or frescoes. The surfaces of a mosaic artwork is rough due to the raised pebbles making the texture rough, vellum was an animal based material used for scrolls and books, an animal skin is rough, therefore, vellum paintings also tend ...

Hanover Baroque Trio Concert

I attended a small ensemble concert that was hosted by the music department in the fine arts building at the college, which featured an all instrumental Trio Sonata. According to the program, the music was all from the baroque period, and it was presented in a smaller room in the “chamber style.” There was not a very large audience. This kept the audience from being a distraction, so that we could really pay attention to the music. The concert featured several instruments, but because it was a trio, only three of them played at a time. These instruments included ...

Each and every period in the Art history has its own significant masterpiece, which is a distinguishing mark of its time. For the Renaissance such masterpiece is the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, for the Impressionism it is the “Impression, Sunrise” by Claude Monet. For the Rococo, unmistakably, it is the “Beautiful Country Woman”, created by François Boucher circa 1732. It is well – known fact that the Rococo style was the following period of the Baroque age. From the historical point of view, it is the era, which started from the Regency of the reign of Louis ...

The Baroque Era began in the 17th century was a period of artistic style that greatly contrasts the shabby and simple depictions of natural humanism; although the style still revered the Humanist idealism of depicting human figures as close to reality, the artists sought to be different from its predecessor art movement. The Renaissance highly valued serene tranquil landscapes, religious iconography, and realism. On the other hand, Baroque period paintings are more energetic and sharp compared to the Renaissance. Originally, the term for this flamboyant artistic movement came from the word ‘Barocco’ or irregular shaped pearl later changed to ...

Introduction

Chiaroscuro is important in artistic photography. Chiaroscuro heightens the dramatic presentation of the lone subjects in painting; thereby putting the audience attention on the central icon of the photograph. Originally, chiaroscuro was a technique used in the Renaissance period and even today to create the illusion of three-dimensional perspective and volume; by the Baroque period in the 17th centuries, the level of chiaroscuro emerged as one of the components of artistic presentation enabling images to mimic the real world setting. In photography, the discourse regarding to chiaroscuro has been left out; yet, it has been ubiquitously used by many ...

Titian’s and Peter Paul Rubens’s Venus and Adonis

The essay looks at Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis and makes a comparison of their style. While Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis, Rubens’s picture is typically Baroque. Rubens was greatly influenced by Titian and copied his version of Venus and Adonis. The story behind Venus and Adonis is derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess Venus is shown clinging to her mortal lover, the handsome young Adonis, whom she is infatuated with. Venus attempts to stop her lover from going hunting. But hunting is a passion with Adonis and he knew that it ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

Bauhaus and Vkhutemas: The Two Schools of Radical Design

The Modern period began in in the late 1900s with the spur of rapid industrialization that continued to swept West from its traditional labor force to a giant super power economy fueled by capitalist merchants who popularized the use of machines in order to produce more goods for the public. The term modernization has been coined throughout history to mark the beginning of the society's grand transition into highly globalized economy providing equal opportunities for the people. In this age, the Modern artists tried to create new architectural styles that abandoned the traditional notion of hierarchy especially the favor ...

The aesthetics of the Baroque era and it's addiction to motion and scale was reflected not only in architecture, sculpture and painting, but it has mainly become obvious in the music. The world of contrasts, contradictions and passion was expressed by major and minor keys. The meaning of the major key is joy, the slightest nuances from tenderness to exultant. The minor key means sadness in melancholy and tragic desperation.

RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE

Musical culture in the XVII and the beginning of the XVIII century has been developed in the frame of Baroque style (Claude 3). It has created new art principles ...

Introduction

The Ottoman Empire was one of the world’s largest empires with history dates back to the Islamic medieval period from the 10th to 11th centuries. The main religion of the Ottoman Empire was Islam and most of their architecture and art was based on the religion as well. The beautiful buildings that exist today were the relics of the old Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was originally founded in 1299 by the tribe who distinguished themselves as Oghus Turks under the rule of King Osman I. Ottoman empire stretched from the mainland Turkey and controlled various countries in ...

Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1691–1765) was an Italian artist active during the Baroque period. One of his well-known oil on canvas paintings is called Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome (see fig. 1) was painted in 1757. What makes this piece of work so magnificent compared to other Baroque paintings was the fact that this was paintings within a painting; and not only paintings are the ones featured here in Pannini’s work, sculptures are also included in the piece. In addition, just by looking on the scenery, anyone will have a gist on how museum curators back ...

Casta painting is a genre of visual arts that was popular during the late 18th century in Spain and Mexico. The Spanish word casta roughly translates to the English word, ‘breed’; in other words, the genre of casta painting meant painting based on breed or one’s racial identity. (Frederick 496-499; Carrera 6). In order to understand the original meaning and tradition of the casta, it is important to trace back the roots why the culture of castas even existed in both Mexico and Spain. According to history, Spain was one of the countries in Europe that started the ...

Sponsored by the State University of New York, the stylistic Museum at the Fashion Institute Technology, also known as Museum at FIT organized an online exhibit called Fairy Tale Fashion which began in the 15th of January continuing up to the 16th day of April 2016. Featured in this collection are the post-modern renditions of some of the well-loved classical fairy tale outfits of the past. The title of the online exhibit might evoke a more grandiose display of Baroque style to medieval princess garbs full of frills, bows, shirrings made out of fancy silks. But upon viewing the ...

Carlo Scarpa was a prominent Italian architect previously active during the early twentieth century and one of the pioneers of modernism in architectural design. He was born in 1906 in the beautiful city of Venice, a place well-known for its old Renaissance architectures, majestic canals, and gondolas. By the time he was only two years of age, his entire family migrated to Vicenza, a county part situated on the northeastern part of the Italian peninsula. It was here that he spent much of his early childhood to teenage years; he also attended a local high school specializing in technical ...

The Ivy Bridge Devonshire (see fig. 1) was an oil painting created by the famous English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner from 1814 to 1815. The term ‘scenery porn’ aptly describes the artist’s magnificent use of lines as decorative element to create wonderful landscapes. The colors were mostly earth tones with chiaroscuro was highly executed, creating an unworldly appearance that illustrates the peaceful life of the common people in the early 19th century England. The painting shows a young man wearing a beret hat, running across the bridge towards the carriage probably echoing shouts to halt the carriage ...

Art is considered as one of the most diverse human activities. Some examples of art-related activities include the production of artwork, historical study of art, critique of artwork, and the dissemination of artwork. Visual arts is one of the oldest forms of art that has been identified and used over the years. This type of art is composed of different components inclusive of the creation of images and objects in several fields such as sculpture and painting. The following paper will look into two paintings from different painters. These paintings comprise, paintings of Willem Van Aelst-Flowers in a Silver ...

BIOGRAPHY

Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was a prolific Spanish Baroque painter who was born in 1599. The waning age of the Late Renaissance became the turning point for the rise of a new art movement so flamboyant and grotesque in its dramatic effects; it would be later known as the Baroque period. A native of Seville, he began painting at a tender age of 20 and one of his works was The Water Carrier of Seville, an evidence of his superb skill in painting intense and dramatic realism. The young genius had demonstrated his absolute talent and mastery ...

What is Modernism? How and why this style gained popularity amongst the nations around the world? What does Modernism emphasized that other art movements lacked? One of the pioneers of the Modernist movement was the French architect Le Corbusier when he designed buildings that mimic the simplistic classical Greco-Roman architecture whose colors were limited to monochrome pigments (Goldhagen 145). In his book, Towards New Architecture, he argued that structures such as buildings and houses were meant to shelter as well as to protect the people living inside. Using this fundamental principle, Le Corbusier attacked the lavish and non-functional designs ...

Music

Often Jewish music’s contemporary reception history leads us to consider Salamone Rossi as the beginner of Jewish music. Salamone himself, as a musician and composer, who as a professional wanted earning his living outside and inside the Jewish community, also desired his audience to comprehend in his compositions of Hebrew style the Jewish music’s beginnings. On one hand, Rossi had a hope that beginnings’ general questions would be reflected in his compositions, what his theological-aesthetic apologists and Rossi himself considered as a fundamental musica antica, Temple’s ancient music, before the diaspora music in Jerusalem. Accumulating at ...

Woman Holding Balance and Birth of Venus

While art may often imitate life, it also reflects passions and beliefs. These expressions are consistent, in some ways, across history and style or form, however, each expression is unique and contains qualities that others do not. This can be seen in two iconic works with female subjects in “Woman Holding Balance” and “The Birth of Venus.” These two works are similar in their iconic representation of the female form, and their religious significance, however their medium, form, and subject matter contrast significantly. First, it is significant to consider the form. Both works are paintings, but that is where ...

Designed by Joseph Paxman in 1851 to accommodate the Great Exhibition that features the technological and cultural advancement from different parts of the world for the enjoyment of the English people (Phillips 14). The architecture of The Crystal Palace was dubbed as the “modern English” since the structure was an unusually simple and the lack of ornamentation, the unity, and functionality of the designs reinforce and stabilized the entire glass roofs and walls covering it and allowing the rays of the sunlight to penetrate within the building (Phillips 24-25). The whole building was also a rejection of traditional materials ...

Hanover Baroque

Type of Concert: Trio Sonata General reaction: I found the concert very smoothing. The venue, at a local episcopal church, was beautiful, and well suited to the small-ensemble, or more chamber style music presented by the trio. There was a sense of both tranquility and ease that punctuated the concert as a result of the combination between the building’s ambiance and the musical genre on display. Concert Summary: The musical concert I attended was a trio, consisting of a violin, a flute, and a harpsichord. Overall, it involved music by eight different composers, each of which took a ...

The Context of the World of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Introduction Creative work in the arts emerges in the context of several elements. These create influences for the artist, painter and sculptor. For example, one’s appreciation of a Claude Monet painting is noticeably enhanced after visiting his garden and home in Giverny, France. The same is true of music composers. This brief essay examines important aspects of life surrounding composer Johann Sebastian Bach in the hope that reviewing general Baroque period influences, especially those from societal practices, visual ...

Introduction

In this paper, the author tries to answer the question regarding the relationship between the typology of religious buildings (e.g. church, mosque, and etc.) and the religious rituals that they house. The thesis statement in this paper basically suggests that the architecture (i.e. typology) of a religious building has a functional correlation to the religious rituals that it houses. Considering that the focus of the analysis and discussion is on architecture, the author looked into a total of 6 religious building architecture types (i.e. typology) namely Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary.

Developments and Discussions

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Book Review. Sor Juana by Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988. 547 pp. ISBN o-674-82105-X (alk. paper) Sor Juana or The Traps of Faith is the comprehensive research on the life and work of Sor Juana, a prominent Mexican poet of the seventeenth century, as well as it is a historical, sociological and cultural account of New Spain and the evolution of the mentality of Mexican people in the times the viceroyalty. This book is an attempt to depict the realities of the seventeenth century and ...

The Palace of Versailles is one of the most tremendous buildings that were created in the 17th century. The palace was built by the order of Louis XIV - ‘Sun King’ (1638-1715). He wanted to create the palace that would glorify France with its splendid beauty and luxury and show the greatness and power of the king. Louis XIV adored every form of art. Art was used with the purpose to increase the glory of France and make it associate with the name of the Sun King. So, he decorated his public and private buildings with a great number ...

The word “Baroque” originates from Portuguese and the period between the late 1500s, and early 1700s is referred to as the Baroque period. The Northern Europe countries such as Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Britain became Protestant, and the Southern countries such as Spain and Italy remained Catholic. The divisions also led to different styles of art. Protestant churches opted for plainer art displaying personal Christianity while the Catholic art remained mysterious and dramatic (Georgina 2014). The diversity in the baroque art can ebb attributed to several factors and different artists from different nations showed significant differences in their style of ...

Le Corbusier was an architect famously revered for his modern building designs. Despite the fact that he lived in an era wherein horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and restrictive society norms, he already envisioned a future in which architecture and art can break separately from its traditionalist origins. Le Corbusier was the second son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris a Swiss watch engraver with his wife, Marie-Charlotte-Amelie Perret whose father was also a craftsman. They married in 1883 and after three years, Marie gave birth to their eldest son named Albert in February 6 1886 (Flint xvii; Weber 22). Le Corbusier was born ...

Renaissance art wave ushered in a new era of culture and inspired and inflicted the artistic styles of many artists. It was a period of rebirth and an important movement for art. There were more accurate details in the paintings and sculpture by the Renaissance artists. Baroque was eventually embraced, although it criticized the excessive grandeur. Baroque artists and architects created dramatic artworks with fluidity and a high contrast of light and shadow. The Baroque art movement intertwined art and religion. When one thinks of a Baroque artwork, there are blurred lines and merging images at oblique angles. However, ...

Le Corbusier was an architect famously revered for his modern building designs. Despite the fact that he lived in an era wherein horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and restrictive society norms, he already envisioned a future in which architecture and art can break separately from its traditionalist origins. Le Corbusier was the second son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris a Swiss watch engraver with his wife, Marie-Charlotte-Amelie Perret whose father was also a craftsman. They married in 1883 and after three years, Marie gave birth to their eldest son named Albert in February 6 1886 (Flint xvii; Weber 22). Le Corbusier was born ...

Renaissance (14th to the 17th century) is a term coined by architect, painter and historian Giorgio Vasari to determine the era in which cultural movement was intended to revive antiquity and open perspectives of development the Western culture (James-Chakraborty, 2014). In the medieval period art was strongly connected with religion, it was full of divine meaning and was usually created for churches. Before the Renaissance, the person was never depicted independently. At the end of the eighteenth century in iconographies by St. Martin, John. Fabriano, Cimabue cheerful images showed the volume and emotions. The cult of beauty is typical ...

I prefer the baroque architectural style. Baroque design has attractive features. The curves of the building are determined by circles. The walls are undulating and have concave and convex spaces that are alternating. Light is appropriately applied in the design of the building, and there is great contrast that differentiates light from shadow. The categories of building columns used are solominic. The domes have external ribs and the staircases have interior and exterior staircases that are detailed. Beauty of the design is enhanced through the use of elaborate ornament and illusionistic paintings. There is great integration involving sculpture, painting ...

The art world of the 17th century was dominated by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who not only challenged contemporary artistic traditions but encouraged innovative interpretation of subjects. He played a significant role in creating the expressive vocabulary of the Baroque style in sculptural and architectural projects. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647–52) is one of his masterpieces (Gian Lorenzo Bernini 2016). The mystical figure is located at Cornaro Chapel, Rome and recognized as the most sensually charged creation of the artist. The marble ensemble is intensified by the way Bernini has made use of fusion of painting, and sculpture ...

Introduction

Domenico Scarlatti is one of the most well known Italian Baroque composers. He is best known for his work on the keyboard sonatas. It is known that most of his life he worked for the royal families in Spain and France. While working for the royal family in Spain, he was able to compose over 500 sonatas. Dominico Scarlatti’s history and time spent in Spain has influenced his famous sonatas compositions that use the Spanish guitar style.

History of Domenico Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti was born on October 26, 1685 in Naples and died on July 23, 1757 in Madrid. It is known ...

Massacre of the Innocents by Paul Rubens is judged by the experts as the true Rubens. The subject of the artwork is the massacre ordered by King Herod, who wants to prevent the King of the Jews to be a rival. Rubens depicts the massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem. Rubens work is characteristic of nudes that are chubby and voluptuous when compared to modern standards. He was an ambitious painter of altarpieces and worked on historical subjects.

The art work

The rich and dramatic colors used by Rubens in Massacre of the Innocents show that he is clearly influenced by Italian ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

- History The Four Seasons or Le Quattro Stagioni is composed of four violin concertos that were composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1723. This piece is known to be his most popular classical work and one of the most well-known in the said repertoire. The Four Seasons is also considered as one of the boldest program music in the baroque period. The concertos were first published in 1725. It was intended to be part of a set of 12 concerti, Vivaldi’s 8th Opus with the title “Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione”, which he dedicated to a Bohemian patron named ...

An Examination of Style and Performance

Introduction Joseph Haydn may be the most underrated of all the great composers, especially when it comes to his piano music. Music students in every field, remain taught that Haydn is the “father of the Symphony.” It is this fact that keeps the student from seeking out, discovering, and delighting in his brilliant, often difficult, but worth the challenge of playing Haydn’s late keyboard compositions. Haydn’s major keyboard works are sonatas, generally representing his growth from his early years until 1794 with completion of his final three sonatas. According to Gordon (1996), Haydn often set the ...

Eighteenth century how to become an icon in the history of fashion and influence our life

Embellishment, poise, elegance are some of the adjectives that can be used to describe the trend in art and architecture of 18th century. The age witnessed the most elegant and stylish way of fashion. It can also be called as a fashionable era. 18th Century era is generally known as the Age of Enlightenment. The beginning of this century experienced a significant change in culture, art and architecture. Fashion industry also was on its peak. The fashion centre in this era shifted from Versailles to Paris. The educated Aristocratic class was called bourgeoisie class. They settled down in Paris. The new ...

Borngasser, B., 2003. The Architecture of the Baroque. In: R. Toman, ed. 2003. Baroque and Rococo: architecture, painting, sculpture. Berlin: Feierabend.

Burroughs, C., 1998. Grammar and expression in early Renaissance architecture: Brunelleschi and Alberti. RES: Antropology and Aesthetics, 34, pp. 39-63.

A well known architectural historian, Burroughs, examines in his article two greats of early Renaissance architecture. Both Brunelleschi and Alberti greatly influenced architects of the following generations and they are still considered two of the most important people in the field of all time. The author examines not only their careers, but also their writings, works, ...

- Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece- embraces the use of oil on oak panel. Thus, the artist uses objects from the material world. These objects symbolize spiritual ideas. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style

- Jan van Eyck, Arnolfin & His Wife. The materials used are oil on oak. The portrait is that of Giovanni and his wife Cenami standing side by side in a bridal chamber. He is holding the hand of his wife. It was done in Northern renaissance or Flemish style.

- Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban. It is a portrait of a man in a ...

Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Checking Your Understanding page 5

- There are a variety of different ways that art can be around the world. Art can be in a book that is being read, the furniture that is being sit on, and in the video games that people play on a regular basis. Basically, art can be anything that a person sees, has seen, or might imagine like advertisements on TV, Internet, toys, fashion, cars, paintings, and movies. - Perceive means to become aware through the senses of the special nature of objects. When a person uses their sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to perceive an object, a person will better understand ...

- Paleolithic cave paintings and the Neolithic Susa vessel have a common subject matter; they both illustrate the animals, hunting scenes and cuneiform writings. The Paleolithic art which was made during the old stone period has two styles: Franco-Cantabrian which was attributed to the Cro-Magnon man whose designs depict horses, bison and cattle for their art subjects. The Neolithic art on the other hand was a new art formed in the new stone period. The style of Neolithic art was portable art is characterized of its ability to be moved from one place to another either by humans or by environment. ...

Monteverdi is one of the famous Italian composer, singer and musician. The audience regards his compositions as revolutionary composing in the Baroque Period. He created two new styles of composing, Polyphony and Basso Continuo technique of baroque. He was a renowned composition and enjoyed a lot of fame and popularity in his life. He has written many compositions, and most of them are revolutionary compositions. He faced a lot of criticism on his compositions throughout his life but still he is one of the most popular composers of his term.

Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular music composition, a part-song of the early baroque period. ...

Introduction

The eighteenth century is significant for its aesthetics and art criticism and the general recognition of art and aesthetic. Competition among neighboring states can bring about cultural innovation. The European instrumental music has its breakthrough during the Baroque era. It is clearly significant the top most performers were from the two compete countries; Germany and Italy. It is evident that political fragmentation in the two nations facilitated artistic changes and development in terms of performance and content. Political changes between Germany and Italy during the Baroque era were the most significant moves that shaped the artistic discipline of during ...

Art is an expression. It is borne from a feeling, an idea, and an act that deserves an eternal glisten. How artists may go about choosing which moments, which facts, or realisation is a political act. But when a region of artists follows, the politics become a dedicated genre. If pressed to divide the entire history of Art, there are two categories: the theatre of Baroque, and the stillness of Neoclassicism.

The Baroque Era and Neoclassic Period are cousins, carrying very similar traits but altogether different in their achievements. The parent to these genres is the Renaissance. In their respective years, the phase ...

The story of the biblical hero David and his battle against the giant Golliath was very popular among Italian Renaissance and Baroque artists. Four great artists of the two periods have created statues with this theme. Each of these represents the genius of the artist and the ideals of the period during which it was created. Donatello’s David is the earliest, created in c. 1428-1432 (Tansey and Kleiner, 688). Verrocchio’s sculpture was made in c. 1465-1470 (Tansey and Kleiner, 715). Both belong to the Early Renaissance. Michelangelo’s David is part of the High Renaissance, created in ...

Baroque is a movement which was characterized by absolutism, theCounter Reformation and catholic revival majorly in the Western Europe. Thebaroque painting which best illustrates Gabrieli music selection style;especially, the venation polychoral style is the architecturalpainting. Thispainting,I feel could best illustrate the Gabrieli music style due to several relationships that they have in their genres. It could be wise to note that the Gabrieli venation style involved religious groups for example the organized choir style within a church. On the other side; the architectural painting was also characterized by church activities, actual loctaions of scenes followed by precedent in painting ...

It is always interesting to be able to compare two works of art with the same subject but from different artists and different periods in the history of art. The two statues of David, created by Michelangelo and Bernini, the first in 1504 and the second in 1625 provide an excellent opportunity to compare and contrast not only the styles of the individual artists, but also the styles of the Renaissance and the Baroque respectively.

Chronologically, Michelangelo and his David are older and will therefore be considered first. Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and ...

Rhoma Irama is one of the most acclaimed Indonesian musicians of all time, innovating and exemplifying the best of the Indonesian dangdut style of popular music. After a difficult and intriguing childhood, he became a superstar in Indonesia in the 1970s, dubbing himself Raja Dangdut, which translates to the "King of Dangdut." Rhoma Irama's contribution to the world of Indonesian pop music is immense, and his popularity helped to provide some crossover success in the United States as well. His popularization of dangdut allowed the lower-class of Indonesia and Jakarta to express themselves in a culturally relevant and powerful way, ...

1. Monteverdi and other musician were treated as performers to the wealthy families at that time. For the case of Monteverdi, he used to perform for the members of Gonzaga family who lived in Mantua area. The families were opera mania, so they had to hire performers for them.

2. Historians recognize Monteverdi as a composer who performed the first work of mastermind in the timeline of opera. Coincidentally, L’Orfeo, performed around February 1607, was Monteverdi’s first piece of work, which shows the dawn of the Baroque Period in Music. The piece of work offers an affluent mixture ...

”No Woman No cry”

One of the most interesting types of art that has always been depicting the main specifications of different time periods in the art history were paintings. Special place here has to be given to portraits that depicted people that lived in different time periods and the way people were seen by the painter in particular and the society in general. Artists have been using women to express their attitude to society for centuries. That is why women’s portraits are used for the current project proposal. The current project proposal is connected with two artworks from very different ...

Artemisia Gentileschi is one of the few female artists whose name and work have survived in modern times. She lived during a period when women were considered inferior to men and thus not capable of creating serious art. The daughter of a painter, she managed to establish herself as an artist, one of the first women to do so and was rediscovered by feminist art historians in the 20th century. In fact Chadwick (2007, 100) says that Artemisia ‘is the first woman artist in the history of Western art whose historical significance is unquestionable’. Her life was not easy and establishing ...

The High Renaissance is the classical period of the artistic Renaissance culture. At this time, the center of Italian art moved from Florence to Rome. There are numerous monumental buildings, sculptures, frescoes and paintings created in this period. Antiquity now being studied more thoroughly and is reproduced more strictly and consistently. Artists with greater ingenuity and imagination are reassessing and transforming all that is considered appropriate to borrow in from the Greco-Roman art. This period is associated primarily with the names of three brilliant artists of the Renaissance: Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, as well as with ...