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| The Baroque was a style in art that used
exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail
to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur from
sculpture, painting, literature, and music. The baroque
style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to
most of Europe. |
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| The baroque style is characterized by an
emphasis on unity among the arts. With technical
brilliance, the baroque artist achieved a remarkable
harmony wherein painting, sculpture, and architecture
were brought together in new spatial relationships, both
real and illusionary, often with spectacular visual
effects. |
| Although the restrained and classical
works created by most French and English artists look
very different from the exuberant works favored in
central and southern Europe and in the New World, both
trends in baroque art tend to engage the viewer, both
physically and emotionally. |
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Baroque Sculpture
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| In painting and sculpture this was achieved
by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism,
usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating
an unequaled sense of theatricality, energy, and movement
of forms. |
| Baroque sculptors felt free to combine
different materials within a single work and often used
one material to simulate another. |
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Baroque Architecture
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| Architecture, departing from the
classical canon revived during the Renaissance, took on
the fluid, plastic aspects of sculpture. Buildings of
the period are composed of great curving forms with
undulating facades, ground plans of unprecedented size
and complexity, and domes of various shapes. |
| Many works of baroque architecture were
executed on a colossal scale, incorporating aspects of
urban planning and landscape architecture. |
| Many works of Baroque sculpture are set
within elaborate architectural settings, and they often
seem to be spilling out of their assigned niches or
floating upward toward heaven. |
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