Italian Baroque love of the “dramatic”

Introduction

The concept of the Baroque has been used to refer to the seventeenth century European culture and part of the eighteenth century. This style is very difficult to identify because it uses similar forms as above, the Renaissance. You could say that Michelangelo is almost responsible for the novelty. Baroque was the term used by critics who fought against these new trends. It is said that the term derives from the Portuguese Baroque (Castilian barrueco), which means "irregular pearl", absurd or grotesque (Panofsky, 19)

Among the general characteristics of Baroque art is its sense of motion, energy and tension. Strong contrasts of light and shadow enhance the scenic effects of many paintings, sculptures and architectural works. An intense spirituality appears frequently in scenes of ecstasy, martyrdom and miraculous occurrences. The implication of great spaces is common in Baroque painting and sculpture, both in the Renaissance and in the Baroque painters in his work always tried to correct representation of space and perspective. Naturalism is another essential feature of Baroque art, the figures are not represented in the tables as mere stereotypes, but on an individual basis, with its own personality. The artists sought the representation of inner feelings, passions and tempers, beautifully reflected in the faces of his characters. The intensity and immediacy, individualism and detail of the Baroque-expressed in the realistic depiction of the skin and clothes, made him one of the deepest styles of Western art.

It is an art form with two different kernels: the Protestant-dominated north and south by the Catholics. Turn serves the interests of different types of customers: the bourgeois merchants, the court nobility ruling in Europe and the Church which claims art as an element of propaganda against the Protestant faith. Rome was the center of the civilized world, the Catholic world and thus the art world (Bazin, 159).

Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro

In the Italian Baroque architecture, Baroque Italy continues for the head of European architecture. The decisive steps in the overall design style and the transformation of the architectural elements, as well as the temple, there are in it. In the evolution of Italian Baroque, architecture is often distinguished in three main stages: - Early Baroque, which goes from 1580 to 1624. - Height of the Baroque period, which was the period from 1624 and 1670, - Baroque decadence, which was from 1670 until 1750. The great ...