Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture, Exams of Advanced Education

Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture

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Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture
Baroque - correct answer - vivid and exuberant style
- popes and cardinals of Rome used this style in building magnificent churches,
palaces and tombs to commemorate their names
- initially used to underline the emphasis of its excess, its abundance of details
- reaction to the Renaissance
Absolutism - correct answer Baroque style is the style of ?????
- reflecting the centralized state ruled by an autocrat of unlimited powers, as
exemplified by the European kings
The Flying Forms - correct answer French translation of Baroque
- spatial complexity
- curved spaces
- depth is pronounced
- ornamental
- theatrical (opera)
- dramatic use of light
- large scale ceiling
- interior is flat for painting
- pear domes - correct answer Baroque Characteristics - 9
Counter-Reformation - correct answer - quest to restore the dominance of
Catholicism
- to attract people to convert back to Catholicism
Chiaroscuro - correct answer - use of strong contrasts between light and dark,
usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition
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Arch 19 - Baroque Architecture

Baroque - correct answer - vivid and exuberant style

  • popes and cardinals of Rome used this style in building magnificent churches, palaces and tombs to commemorate their names
  • initially used to underline the emphasis of its excess, its abundance of details
  • reaction to the Renaissance Absolutism - correct answer Baroque style is the style of ?????
  • reflecting the centralized state ruled by an autocrat of unlimited powers, as exemplified by the European kings The Flying Forms - correct answer French translation of Baroque
  • spatial complexity
  • curved spaces
  • depth is pronounced
  • ornamental
  • theatrical (opera)
  • dramatic use of light
  • large scale ceiling
  • interior is flat for painting
  • pear domes - correct answer Baroque Characteristics - 9 Counter-Reformation - correct answer - quest to restore the dominance of Catholicism
  • to attract people to convert back to Catholicism Chiaroscuro - correct answer - use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition

Frescoes - correct answer technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster Trompe L'oeil - correct answer - French for deceive the eye

  • art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that depicted objects exist in three dimensions Church of the Gesu' - correct answer - mother church of the Society of Jesus
  • considered "the first truly baroque facade"
  • model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the Americas Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesu all'Argentina
  • Church of the Most Holy Name of Jesus - correct answer official name of 'Church of the Gesu'
  • Francesco Borromini
  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini - correct answer Frontiers of Mannerism Francesco Borromini - correct answer - born in Italy and studies his craft in Milan
  • served as an apprentice for Carlo Maderna and Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • noted for his comman of spatial effects, structural innovations and design based on the triangle Gian Lorenzo Bernini - correct answer - dominating figure in Roman Baroque art
  • Michelangelo of the Baroque
  • became protege of St. Urban VIII in 1623
  • awarded the commission for the bronze canopy in St. Peter's in 1624
  • expresses grandeur and flamboyance of the Counter-Reformation
  • represented the theatrical entrepreneurial side of the Roman Baroque, welding the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture into spectacular unified effects
  • emerged first in interior decoration such as stucco work and church reredoses or retablos
  • exuberant and delicate decoration
  • unified spaces
  • less emphasis on structural elements
  • continuous decorative schemes
  • reduced column sizes
  • asymmetrical surface decoration
  • more curvilinear
  • more pervasive and more extreme
  • low relief and dainty - correct answer Rococo Characteristics - 9
  • vivid colors replaced by pastel shades
  • surface relief replaced by smooth flowing masses
  • building structure lightened to render interior graceful and ethereal - correct answer Changes of Rococo to Baroque - 3 reredoses (reredos) - correct answer altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images Baroque and Rococo flourished in Spain - correct answer Between 1650 and 1750
  • a reaction against the formalism of Herrera and his followers remarkably austere - correct answer works of Juan de Herrera extremely rich ornamentation - correct answer works of Jose de Churriguera Churrigueresque - correct answer - reaction against the severity and restraint of Renaissance forms
  • rich ornamentation, undulating cornices, spirals, balustrades, stucco shells, and garlands
  • animation of surface
  • play of light and shade effects
  • rich ornamentation - correct answer Churrigueresque characteristics - 3 Spanish Colonial Architecture - correct answer - combination of the Native American and Moorish decorative influences
  • full bodied and varied character of the Baroque
  • use of stucco decoration
  • twin-towered facades - correct answer Churrigueresque style in the American colonies of Spain Characteristics - 3