This is just a simplified guide. The questions are not central to the discussion in this class, but rather basic starting points.
Jorge Majfud
- What was the ideological/religious origin of Baroque?
- What is the main characteristic of the Baroque?
- What was the ideological/religious origin of Neoclassicism?
- Name Baroque artists
- Name Neoclassical examples in architecture.
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Question for students at the end of class:
What are your impressions (ethical, aesthetic, or ideological, etc.) of the recent periods studied in class: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism?
Baroque
Reform. Counter-Reformation 1545-1650
iconoclastic Fury (Calvinism).
St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (1572).
Chiaroscuro, decorated.
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (Bernini)
Rembrandt **, **
Vivaldi **
Façade of San Carlos (Francesco Borromini, Rome, 1645)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: St. Peter’s Square colonnade.
Palace of Versailles (1660-) King Luis XIV.
Catherine Palace ( St. Petersburg, 1720)
Kyiv St. Andrew’s Church / Bulbous Domes
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Neoclassicism
Rediscovery of Herculaneum (1735) and Pompeii in 1748. **,
Age of Enlightenment.
Descartes, etc.
Reaction against the baroque.
Archeology, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (History of Ancient Art, 1764)
Grand Tour,
Autocratic governments in Europe. Later rising power in the US
Painting: Neoclassicism ** / Romanticism **
Arc de Trionphe, Paris. **, **,
Frances Blondel
Pantheon, Paris. Napoleon.
Rue de Rivoli
Revolution of 1848
US Capitol
Brandenburg Gate
Reaction of Romanticism (neo-Gothic) against neoclassicism.
