Works like his The Rape of Proserpina (1621-22) and his Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625) emphasized dramatic realism, intense emotion, and movement, and as art historian Rudolf Wittkower wrote, they "inaugurated a new era in the history of European sculpture.

The intense physicality and violence of the depiction, as art historian Esperança Camara wrote, "to this day...strikes its viewers with both revulsion and awe at the skill of the artist who so convincingly transformed paint into blood." Summary of Baroque Art and Architecture. Perhaps as a result of that intense personal vision, her work was later hidden away. Lire la suite, Succédant à Jacques Le Mercier avec le titre de premier architecte, puis d'intendant et d'ordonnateur général des Bâtiments royaux, Le Vau a régné sur l'architecture française à partir de 1654.

Lire la suite, Architecte anglais. Baroque architecture, architectural style originating in late 16th-century Italy and lasting in some regions until the 18th century. But Gentileschi's portrayal took on a unique immediacy as it was informed by a personal traumatic experience.

Following the 1527 Sack of Rome, and in efforts to oppose the growth of Protestantism, the Counter-Reformation sought to re-establish the Church's authority.

As the Rococo period was followed by the Neoclassical style within fifty years many Baroque artists became obscure and overlooked. The resulting fresco ceiling Loves of the Gods (1597-1601) influenced the Baroque movement, as Carracci pioneered the quadro riportato technique that framed each scene as if it were an easel painting arranged on a ceiling.

ANDALOUSIE. » Sous ce long pontificat (1623-1644), Bernin est le « grand ordonnateur d […] Mais il faut dissiper bien des préjugés à ce propos : celui d'un art importé dans un pays vaincu, privé de ses libertés politiques, converti de force au catholicisme et où une noblesse étrangère remplaçait l'ancienne aristocratie locale. Baroque art of France (and northern Europe generally) tends to be restrained, such that it can be described as a classical-Baroque compromise.

I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh. Né, comme son homonyme Domenico dans le Nord, près de Côme, il s'établit lui aussi à Rome […] Élève puis assistant de Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor devint le collaborateur du mondain Vanbrugh. In inventing new things, one cannot receive the fruit of one's labor except later.

Francesco Borromini was the master of curved-wall architecture.

C'est à 1716 que remonte l'installation de la famille en Russie.

When the piece was renamed The Feast in the House of Levi, alluding to a Gospel setting where sinners were present, the work was considered acceptable. At the time, a backlash against the conservative Protestant Reformation was compelled by the Catholic Church to re-establish its importance and grandeur within society. Lire la suite, La famille suédoise des Tessin offre un cas d'exceptionnelle ascension sociale. Intending to seduce her, he invited her into his tent for dinner but as the Bible says, "was so enchanted with her that he drank far more wine than he had drunk on any other day in his life."

This work shows a dark tavern where a number of men dressed in contemporary clothing have turned to face Christ, his right arm pointing toward St. Matthew. The unabashed sensuality of his full-figured female nudes was also innovative, and so distinctive they are still dubbed as "Rubenesques."

Western architecture - Western architecture - Baroque and Rococo: Baroque and late Baroque, or Rococo, are loosely defined terms, generally applied by common consent to European art of the period from the early 17th century to the mid-18th century. Content compiled and written by Rebecca Seiferle, Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Kimberly Nichols. Pierre le Grand et ses successeurs, désireux de faire de leur État une m […]

The prime example of this is the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446).

On décèle […] Taking a sword, Judith beheaded him and returned with his head in a basket to the city, where she was acclaimed as a hero. En 1666, il s'installe à Turin où il demeure de façon quasi permanente jusqu'à la fin de sa v […]

But in 1888 Heinrich Wölfflin's Renaissance und Barock (1888), the term was officially used as a simple descriptive to denote the distinct artistic style. Russifié, ce nom fut transformé d'abord en Sarskaïa myza puis en Sarskoïe Selo.

Installé à Séville dès avant 1675, il dirige la construction de l'hôpital des Venerables Sacerdotes (1687 à 1697), dont le patio séduit par la clarté de sa composition. Baroque was a style used to inspire and as an exhibition of power. Called Classicism in France, it rejected the ornate in favor of geometric proportion and less elaborate facades. The Guardian / Ancient Egypt 3,050 BC to 900 BC In ancient Egypt, powerful rulers constructed monumental pyramids, temples, and shrines..

Nicodème I er Tessin (1615-1681) est un architecte, son fils Nicomède II (1654-1728) aussi et son petit-fils Charles-Gustave (1695-1770) devient un grand personnage, diplomate et ministre, tout en restant un amateur d'art fort éclairé.

Protestant dans la mesure où il reste empreint d'une certaine gravité, il se fonde essentiellement sur une espèce de théâtralisation du corps même de l'arc […]

As a result, Flemish artists painted both Counter-Reformation religious subjects and landscapes, still lifes, and genre works that still drew upon the Northern European tradition. Dutch Baroque architecture primarily drew upon the works of the Venetian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (often referred to as Dutch Palladianism), while retaining some Gothic elements to create a restrained monumental style. The seventeenth-century Dutch artist is among the premier master painters in Western civilization.

Les Francs Saliens en firent une résidence.

At the time, a backlash against the conservative Protestant Reformation was compelled by the Catholic Church to re-establish its importance and grandeur within society. L'arrivée des premiers missionnaires catholiques en 1517 favorise la construction de lieux de culte chrétien.  : […] ", When Cardinal Scipione Borghese later became Pope Urban VIII, Bernini also became the most important architect in Rome, as seen by his being named Chief Architect of St. Peter's in 1629.

La lunette est généralement occupée par une fenêtre.

Two masterpieces of Gian Lorenzo Bernini are found at St Peter's.

Au xv e  siècle, l'esprit de la Renaissance allemande et italienne pénètre à Vienne, ce qui se traduit par la diffusion de l'humanisme et le renouvellement de l'architecture (améliorations à la résidence du prince, la vieille Hofburg fortifiée, édification de palais à l'italienne, comme le palais Porcia).

The most representative architect is Bramante (1444–1514) who expanded the applicability of classical architecture to contemporary buildings. These mythological figures lend grandeur and allegorical meaning to the Queen's arrival, but, at the same time, the three nude Naiads overshadow the event with their dynamic sensuality. Versailles became Europe's model of palace architecture, inspiring similarly grand residences throughout the continent.6, Versailles' most famous room is the Hall of Mirrors, whose mirrors have the same dimensions as the windows they stand opposite.G360-61,H872, Rococo artists embraced the curves and elaborate ornament of Baroque, but reigned in its weighty drama.

Lire la suite, Neveu de Domenico Fontana, Carlo Maderno arrive en 1588 à Rome, appelé par son oncle qui l'utilise comme stucateur et décorateur dans les travaux que lui a confiés Sixte Quint. Il y créa un évéché en 1007 et, au cours du xi e siècle, plusieurs abbayes et églises paroissiales y furent construites : en 1015, le monas […] Firstly, this period featured Christopher Wren, often considered the greatest of all English architects.

S'opposant au goût français, dont le p […] L'une des plus grandes entreprises architecturales qu'ait jamais connues l'Aragon, et l'une des plus importantes de l'Espagne baroque, fut la reconstruction de l' église du Pilar . Lire la suite, Élève de Germain Boffrand, qu'il avait connu lors des travaux de ce maître en Lorraine, le Nancéien Héré fut le principal architecte de Stanislas Leszczyński, roi de Pologne et duc de Lorraine, qui était animé d'une frénésie de bâtir égale à celle des plus puissants souverains de l'époque. Spanish Baroque was noted for its distinctive style, as a somber and, even sometimes, gloomy mood prevailed in Spanish culture. Antonio Francisco L […] It had its origins in the Counter-Reformation, when the Catholic Church launched an overtly emotional and sensory appeal to the faithful through art and architecture. Quirinal hill is one of the "seven hills of Rome". Lire la suite, Le premier établissement humain qui est à l'origine de la ville de Spire (en allemand : Speyer) date de l'époque celte : Noviomagus.

Sa puissance créative fut à l'origine de majestueuses compositions qui trouvent leur expression dan […] Russian Baroque is also called Petrine Baroque, named in honor of Peter the Great who promoted the style in rebuilding St. Petersburg, when he named it the new Russian capital in 1712.