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IMPACT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT ON ART,
ARCHITECTURE AND MUSIC
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
• A TIME BETWEEN THE 1600S AND 1700S • AGE OF REASON • CHALLENGED ESTABLISHED IDEAS ON
POWER AND AUTHORITY • REVOLUTION OF IDEAS • TAKING NATURAL LAWS AND APPLYING
THEM TO SOCIETY• ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS ABOUT ORDER
AND REASON WERE REFLECTED IN ARCHITECTURE, ART AND MUSIC
BAROQUEARCHITECTURE
EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE 0F THE 1600S AND EARLY 1700S WAS DOMINATED BY THE BAROQUE STYLE! EARLY ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD
• TIME OF ABSOLUTISM!!• WE WILL VIEW VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF
BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE , ART AND MUSIC AND THEN COMPARE IT TO NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, ART AND MUSIC .
• YOU WILL DETERMINE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH!
BAROQUEARCHITECTURE
PALACE OF VERSAILLES FRANCE
KING’S BEDROOM
QUEEN’S BEDROOM
ITALIAN BAROQUE FOUNTAIN BY BERNINI
TREVI FOUNTAIN-ROME
ST. PETER’S SQUARE AND COLANNADE
ST. PETER’S COLANNADES by BERNINI
BERNINI’S CANOPY( Baldachin) IN ST. PETERS OVER TOMB OF ST. PETER- 1634
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL – LONDON -1697
CHARACTERISTICS OF BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE
• Ornate –highly decorative • emotional• Very heavy • Gilded in gold • Large in size • Extravagant • Popular during the time of Absolute
Monarchs• Began in Italy
NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURE THAT WAS USED IN THE LATER 1700S.
IN THE UNITED STATES
REFERRED TO AS FEDERAL STYLE. Washington,D.C.
JEFFERSON’S MONTICELLO
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA CAPITAL BUILDING
U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING
U.S. SUPREME COURT BUILDING
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEO- CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE
DISCOVERY OF POMPEII IN ITALY DURING THE 1700S AROUSED INTEREST IN GREECE AND ROME.
NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED THE IDEAS OF CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME:
COLUMNS PEDIMENTS ARCHES DOMES ROUNDED WINDOWS
BAROQUE ART LATE 1500S TO 1700S
TWO TYPES OF BAROQUE ARTRELIGIOUS
ROYAL
PETER PAUL RUBENS FLANDERS 1577-1640
PETER PAUL RUEBENS FLANDERS 1577-1640
HELENE FOURMENT AND 2 OF HER CHILDREN
REMBRANDTVON RIJN
NETHERLANDS 1606-1669
MAN WITH THE GOLDEN HELMUT
DESCENT FROM THE CROSS
JOSEPH ACCUSED BY POTIPHAR’S WIFE
GIRL WITH A BROOM
REMBRANDT’S SELF PORTRAITS
JAN VERMEER NETHERLANDS
1632-1675
GIRL WITH A PEARL IN HER EAR
MILKMAID
GIRL ASLEEP
DIEGO RODRIGUEZ VELAZQUEZ
SPAIN 1559-1660
Portrait de’L enfante
LAS MANINAS
CHARACTERISTICS OF BAROQUE ART
• BOLD, LARGE SCALE FORMS • RICH IN COLOR • CONTRAST BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK • LIGHT AND SHADOW • GENRE: • PORTRAITS , BIBLE THEMES, NUDES,
EVERYDAY SCENES, MYTHOLOGY • RELIGIOUS THEMES• ROYAL THEMES MORE IN NORTH,
PROTESTANT AREAS
NEO-CLASSICAL ART 1750-1850
JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
1748-1825ONE OF THE GREATEST NEO-
CLASSICAL ARTISTS
LICTORS BEARING TO BRUTUS THE BODIES OF HIS SONS
OATH OF THE HORATII
Death of Socrates
Ingres The Apotheosis of Homer
CHARACTERISTICS OF
NEO-CLASSICAL ART• DISCOVERY OF POMPEII IN 1700S
RENEWED INTEREST IN CLASSICAL GREECE AND ROME
• GENRES: MYTHOLOGY, GOVERNMENT, CULTURE • STYLE: BRIGHT , BOLD COLRS, CLASSICAL THEMES MORAL MESSAGE ENCOURAGED ORDER, REASON,
DISCIPLINE
BAROQUE MUSIC 1600-1750
COMPOSERS OF BAROQUE MUSIC
• HANDEL 1685-1759 concertos, overtures, oratorios MESSIAH- most famous work • BACH- 1685-1750 religious music, organ, fugue TOCCATO IN D MINOR
CHARACTERISTICS OF BAROQUE MUSIC
• COMPLEX- ELABORATE • HEAVY • NEW INSTRUMENTS –PIANO,
WOODWINDS, BASS, PERCUSSION• NEW VOCAL FORMS- ORATORIOS• CHAMBER AND INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC
CLASSICAL
• HAYDN- 1750-1820 - sonata, symphony
SYMPHONY # 94- SUPRISE
• MOZART- 1756-1791 OPERAS, SYMPHONIES, FIGUARO , SYMPHONY #
40 AND EINEKLEINE
NACHTMUSIK
CHARACTERISTICS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
• LESS COMPLICATED • LIGHTER • PIANO FEATURED• MORE VARIETY AND CONTRAST • EMPHASIS ON BEAUTY, ELEGANCE
AND BALANCE • SONATA MOST IMPORTANT FORM • ORCHESTRA IS LARGER