 It describes a fairly complex idiom and

focuses on painting, sculpture, as well as

architecture.
 It reflects the tensions of the age notably the
desire of the Catholic church in Rome to
reassert itself in the wake of the Protestant
Reformation which is almost the same with
Catholic-Reformation Art of the period
 It was a period of artistic styles in
exaggerated motion, drama, tension, and
grandeur. The style started in Rome,
Italy and spread to most of Europe.
 The Roman Catholic Church highly
encouraged the Baroque style to propagate
Christianity while the aristocracy used
Baroque style for architecture and arts to
impress visitors, express triumph, power,
and control.
 Baroque sculpture, typically larger than life
size, is marked by a similar sense of
dynamic movement, along with an active use
of space.
 Baroque architecture was designed to create
spectacle and illusion. Thus the straight
lines of the Renaissance were replaced with
flowing curves.
 MICHELANGELO MERISI or AMERIGHI DA
CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610)
 He was better known as Caravaggio
 He was an Italian artist who wanted to
deviate from the classical masters of
renaissance.
 He was an outcast in his society, because of
his own actions and the lack of modesty
and reverence for religious subjects in his
own paintings.
 He started out as a specialist in his paintings
of still life, especially of fruits.
 His models at this period were either himself
or young persons who have an air of being
promising but wicked.
 An Italian artist and the first Baroque artist.
 He practiced architecture, and sculpture,
painting, stage design, and was also a
playwright.
 He was also the last in the list of dazzling
universal geniuses.
 As a prodigy, his first artworks date from his
8th birthday.
 He was a Flemish Baroque painter.
 He was well known for his paintings of
mythical and figurative subjects, landscapes,
portraits, and Counter-Reformation
altarpieces.
 His commissioned works were mostly
religious subjects, history paintings
of magical creatures, and hunt
scenes.
 He was a brilliant Dutch realist, painter and
etcher.
 He is generally considered as one of the
greatest painters and printmakers in
European art.
 He followed no particular faith, but was
interested in spiritual values and often
chooses religious subjects.
 No artist has painted himself as often as did
Rembrandt.
 His concept of himself continued to deepen
in grasp and subtlety, while his technique
grew more daring.
 He was a Spanish Baroque artist.
 He was one of the finest masters of
composition and one of the most
important painters of the Spanish
Golden Age.
 He worked out solutions to pictorial
problems of design that transcend
the style of any period.
 The passion of still life frequently
emerges in Velasquez’s art.