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Drury Universtiy Baroque Art and Architecture Rome
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10/18/2010

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Feast in the House of Levi

Paolo Vernoese

 

*inspired by the venetian party scene

 

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Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

Carracci

 

 

quadro reprotato: transported painting

didactic: has a particular message which will be displayed to the viewer

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Bacchus

Caravaggio

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The Fortune Teller

Caravaggio

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St. Matthew and the Angel

Caravaggio

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Last Communion of St. Jerome

Domenichino

 

emphasizes the role of the priest in a time when the Catholic Doctrine was being tested

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Assumption of the Virgin

Carracci

 

use of color

model for the classical/academic ideal of carraci

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Judith and Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi

 

*rape of Artemisia helps to influence her artwork of women either dominating men or being vunerable

 

similar style to caravaggio

 

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S. Bibiana

Bernini

 

commissioned by Urban VIII as a cardinal

 

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Palazzo Barberini

Carlo Maderno-Bernini

 

 

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Triumph of Divine Providence

Pietro da Cortona

 

bay leaves: symbol of achievement

Papal Tiara: church

HUGE keys of St. Peter

3 Barberini Bees

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Monument to Urban VIII

Bernini

 

funerary monument

*Pontifex Maximus: bridgebuilder

 

 

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SS. Luca e Martina

Pietro da Cortona

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Collegio di Propaganda Fide

Borromini

 

super pretty faulted ceiling and intricate

 

Dedicated to the Magi- Chigi

 

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S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Borromini

 

built for the Trinitarians: Borromini emphasizes the use of three throughout the church

 

3 zones of the interior of church

1. columns

2. entablatures with frieze

3. ceiling and dome

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Baldacchino 

Bernini

 

*represents the possesso of the Pope from the S. Giovanni in Laterano to St. Peter's.

 

-The Pope would have been carried in a canopy shaped like the Baldacchino

 

*multimedia piece of work.

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Raimondi Chapel

Bernini

 

-builds out chapel and includes lightbox to cast over sculpture and illuminate it.

 

"Luce alle Bernina"= Light in the way of Bernini

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St. Peter's Basillica

Carlo Maderno

 

*Alexander VII: wants the piazza enclosed with porticos and no buildings on top

 

wanted this space to be grander in scale than the rest of the buildings surrounding the area.

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Barcaccia Fountain

Bernini

 

"ugly boat"

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Four Rivers Fountain

Bernini

 

grotto was built to place river gods in.

obelisk was lifted up high to serve as a marker for pilgrims

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Four Rivers Nile

Bernini

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Four Rivers Ganges

Bernini

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Four Rivers Rio de la Plata

Bernini

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Four Rivers Danube

Bernini

 

*holding up papal tiara because the Danube was controlled by the Hapsburg Dynasty and it was important for them to maintain relations with Rome.

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S. Ivo alla Sapienza

Borromini

 

 

 

 

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Piazza Navona

Bernini and Borromini

 

Pamphili Papacy

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Ecstasy of St. Teresa: Cornaro Chapel

Bernini

 

*Innocent X

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Sant' Agnese

Borromini

 

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Piazza del Popolo

 

twin churches frame the streets

 

triumphal arch

trident street system to filter people

*Bernini in charge of re-systematizing the streets

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Santa Maria del Popolo

Bregno

 

*contains the Chigi Chapel

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Chigi Chapel

Raphael

 

chigi family already had ties to this church so it made sense for Alexander to take over and improve the Piazza del Popolo

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Scala Regia

Giovanni Battista Falda

 

frame for the activity of reception

winding staircase to visit the pope

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Palazzo Spada

Borromini

 

perspective- compare to scala regia

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S. Maria della Pace

Pietro da Cortona

 

chigi family also had a chapel in this church which kept the theme of peace alive in his family

 

star in family emblem is a symbol of peace

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S. Andrea alle Quirinale

Bernini

 

Alexander VII got Innocent X to fund the project 

Jesuit monestary

 

turns the corner on the architecture

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