Catholic countries,

influenced by Counter-
Reformation
Divided in two, the
same as Europe
Protestant, influenced
by economic
development

The meaning of "barru is pearl with a different or irregual shape"

All arts grew in the new style, having a great time of
spreading and reaching high standards of quality
- Art: Baroque modifyed the forms inspired in the classicals,
giving more reality and movement instead of idealism.
- Literature: Shakespeare, Moliere, Cervantes, Lope de Vega,
Quevedo
- Music: First operas were composed. Great musicians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpz5Qw6uB_w Bach
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6NRLYUThrY Vivaldi
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAd3NpDi6Q Handel
 Curved lines and spiral columns (Solomonic columns),
giving more movement and dynamism to the works
Light effects (light and shade). Projections,
pediments
Ornamentation on facades too, combining the arts
Fine materials, mainly coloured marbles
Trompe-l'il (trampantojo)
Baldachin
(baldaquino)
of San Peter
of Vatican,
Bernini
Val dil Noto,
Sicilia, Italian
Baroque

Light and shade

Church of
Gesu, Giacomo
della Porta
G. L. Bernini
St. Peters Square
St. Andrea of
Quirinale, Bernini
Francesco Borromini

Church of San Carlo alle Quattro

Fontane
Sant Ivo alla Sapienza, Borromini
Saint Agnes (Santa Ins),
Navona Square, Borromini
- Movement and dynamism, giving more realism to the
works. Groups gained in importance
- Volumes with identity, with very heavy clothes and
chiaroscuro effects
- Open sculpture compositions, with curvy and centrifugal
lines
- A theatrical or dramatical expresiveness. They always
choose the most dramatical moment
- The scuplture is made keeping in mind tha place where it
will be
- Different points of view
- Religious and mithological scenes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFHPAbHaoqk
The rape of Sabines,
Giambologna
Samson slaying a Philistine,
Giambologna
Hercules beating the centaur
Nessus, Giambologna
The Ecstasy of Saint
Teresa, G.L. Bernini
The Ecstasy of Ludovica Albertoni, Bernini
David, Bernini
Apollo and Dafne, Bernini
The rape of Proserpina,
Bernini
The matyrdom of Saint Cecilia, Maderno
 Many differents themes: mithology, religion, portraits,
daily life scenes, landscapes
Realistic way of representing people. They even have
physical defects
It has movement and dynamism, as architecture and
sculpture
Chiaroscuro and tenebrism (Caravaggio)
It expresses strong emotions
Supper at
Emmaus,
Caravaggio
(1607)
The Night
Watch,
Rembrand
(1642)
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee,
Rembrandt (1633)
The Samplings Officials, Rembrandt (1662)
The Mil
Rembra
(1645-16
The Milkmaid, Veermer
(1657-1658)
Banquet of the Officers of the St George
Civic Guard Company (1627)
The Three Graces, Rubens (1635)
Consequences of War (Horror of War), Rubens (1639)
A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning, Rubens (1636)
 It is a period that contained the years between the
publication of the Gramtica Castellana by Antonio de
Nebrija in 1492 until the death of Caldern de la Barca
in 1681
It was a period characterised by the high standars of
quality that the authors reached in different arts
Literature: Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Gngora,
Quevedo
- Simple materials, like bricks and stones with ornate
decoration

- Religious and civil buildings (plazas)

- Broken pediments

- Oval dooms as covers in faade

- Salomon columns and free-standing classical columns

- Churriguera family (churrigueresco)

Obradorio, Casas Novoa
Hospice of Madrid, Pedro de Ribera
Murcias
Cathedral,
Jernimo Quijano
Retablo de San Esteban,
Salamanca, Jos Benito de
Churriguera
Plaza Mayor de Salamanca, Alberto de Churriguera
Plaza Mayor de Madrid, Varios (Gmez de Mora, Juan
de Herrera)
Casa de la Panadera, Plaza Mayor de
Madrid, Juan Gmez de Mora
 They were mainly religious
Altarpieces and for processions
They were made by wood, because of poverty
This wood was polychrome, trying to look richer
They were very expressive and dramatic, following the
characteristics of the Italian baroque.
Their expresivity was a religious feeling
Cristo Yacente, Gregorio Fernndez
La Sexta Angustia (La Piedad), Gregorio Fernndez
Ecce Homo, Gregorio Fernndez
 Used as propaganda for the Counter-Reformation.
Religious themes, but as well classical myths
Realism, emotion and symbolism (like Dutch
paintings)
Tenebrism and costumbrismo
Most important authors: Velzquez, Ribera, Zurbarn
and Murillo
Las Meninas, Velzquez
Vieja friendo
huevos,
Velzquez (1618)
Inoncencio X,
Velzquez
Study of the Inoncencio X
portrait, Francis Bacon (1953)
Arqumedes, Pedro de Ribera (1630)
San Pablo Ermitao, Pedro de Ribera