Global Baroque

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Global Baroque

Dr Laura Fernández-González

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, ceiling, 1508-11

Pietro da Cortona, Barberini Ceiling, 1633-39, Pal. Barberini

Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, ceiling, 1508-11

Giacomo de la Porta, Il Gesu, Rome, 1575

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1565

Giacomo de la Porta, Il Gesu, Rome, 1575

Pietro da Cortona (1596/7-1669), SS. Martina e Luca, 1629>

Pietro da Cortona, S. Maria della Pace, 1656>

Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel, 1429/30 >, S. Croce, Florence

St Peter’s Piazza, G.B. Falda’s engraving, 1656

Plans of St Peter’s, Rome

St Peter’s Crossing, Bernini, 1629-38, St Longinus Pier

Bernini, Drawing for Cathedra Petri, with Baldacchino

Bernini, Scala Regia, 1654-1680

Scala Regia, 1654-1680

Bernini, S. Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70, porch

S. Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70, plan

S. Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70, Main Chapel

S. Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70

S. Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70, vault

Carlo Borromini (1599-1667), S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (comm. 1634,

begun 1638, façade begun 1665)

Carlo Borromini (1599-1667), S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (comm. 1634,

begun 1638, façade begun 1665)

S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, plan

S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, schema

S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, dome

Giacomo della Porta (c.1537-1602), Università La Sapienza, courtyard

(1575>); Francesco Borromini, S. Ivo (1642-50)

Giacomo della Porta (c.1537-1602), Università La Sapienza, courtyard

(1575>); Francesco Borromini, S. Ivo (1642-50)

S. Ivo della Sapienza, schema

Section S. Ivo della Sapienza, schema

S. Ivo della Sapienza, dome

Pieter Brueghel, Tower of Babel, Vienna

Introduction to Iberian Baroque and

Baroque beyond Europe

The Empire of Philip II of Spain during the Iberian Union (1580-

Austriaco Style, Monastery of El Escorial, Spain

Juan Bautista de Toledo & Juan de Herrera, 1560-84

Duke of Lerma’s Palace, Lerma, Spain

Francisco de Mora, 1600-17

Plaza Mayor, Madrid. Panadería,

Juan Gómez de Mora, 1619.

Cathedral of Valladolid, Spain designed Juan de Herrera, 1589 -

Reconstruction by Chueca Goitia.

Cathedral of Puebla, Mexico, 1575-1690

Francisco Becerra, Juan de Cigorondo,

Juan Gómez de Trasmonte

Cathedral of Valladolid,

Spain. Juan de Herrera,

1589 -

Floor Plan of the Cathedral of

Valladolid, Spain designed Juan

de Herrera, 1589 -

Reconstruction by Chueca Goitia.

Floor Plan of the Metropolitan

Cathedral of Mexico. 1570-1813. In

situ: Claudio de Arciniega, Juan Miguel de

Agüero, Juan Gómez de Trasmonte. In

Spain: Alonso Pérez de Castañeda, Juan

Gómez de Mora.

Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico. 1570-1813.

Highlighted: Baroque façade of the Sagrario (Tabernacle)

Altar, San Esteban, Salamanca, Spain.

José de Churriguera, 1692-94

Altar of the Kings, Metropolitan

Cathedral of Mexico,

Jerónimo Balbás, 1718-25

Churrigueresque

Sagrario (Tabernacle) Metropolitan

Cathedral of Mexico, Mexico.

Lorenzo Rodríguez, 1749-60

Obradoiro façade, Cathedral of Santiago

de Compostela, Spain. Fernando de

Casas Novoa, 1738-49.

Plaza Mayor de Salamanca, Spain, Alberto Churriguera, 1729-56.

Cathedral of Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1729-72.

Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la

Merced (Lima), Façade finished in

1614 by Andres Espinoza.

Church of San Agustín, Lima, 1710

Monastery of San Francisco, Lima,

1657-72 (works continued)

Constantino de Vasconcellos from

Portugal and the alarife Manuel

Escobar from Lima

Earthquake Baroque Architecture

Miag-ao Church, or Church of Santo Tomas de Villanueva, Phillipines

built in 1786 by Spanish Augustinian missionaries

La Merced Church Antigua,

Guatemala, 17th C. -1767.

Juan de Dios Estrada.

Church of Saint Augustine,

(Paoay Church),

Philippines, 1710.

Terreiro do Paço and the Royal Palace with the ‘new’ Torreao in Lisbon, 1650

Juan de Herrera and Fillipo Terzi, 1580- c. 1610

The Mafra National Palace was built during the reign of King

John V of Portugal (1707–1750) designed by the German

architect João Frederico Ludovice

Monastery of São Vicente de Fora

1582-1629 Juan de Herrera and

Filippo Terzi

Cathedral of El Salvador, Bahia,

Brazil, 17th C. (Originally founded

by the Society of Jesus)

New Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal,

1598-1698. Baltasar Alvares. (Originally

founded by the Society of Jesus)

Ruins of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Macau, China, 1582-1640

Church of São Caetano, Goa, India,

1612-61, Theatine Order Our Lady Of The Immaculate Conception

Church, Panjim, Goa, India. Contruction

started in 1541, completly rebuilt in 1619.

Church of Bom Jesus in Braga,

Portugal, 1722-84>

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas,

Minas de Gerais, Brazil, 1757-71,

Aleijadinho.

Italian Baroque Architecture:

Blunt, A., Borromini, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, c.1979

Hibbard, H., Bernini, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1965.

Norberg-Schulz, C., Baroque architecture, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1972

Wittkower, R. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, Pelican

Iberian & Baroque beyond Europe :

Bailey, G.A., The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Convergent Cultures in the Churches

of Colonial Peru, (Notre Dame Press, 2010).

Bailey, G.A., Art of colonial Latin America, (London, 2005).

Bailey, G.A. Art on the Jesuit missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773,

(Toronto, 2001).

Carita, H., Palaces of Goa: Models and Types of Indo-Portuguese Architecture

(Michigan, 1999).

Escobar, J., Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid (Cambridge, 2004).

Kubler, G., Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American

Dominions 1500-1800 (Baltimore, 1959).

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