ARTH 070B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Renaissance Art, Smoking Jacket
5 Oct 2016
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During the baroque period, there was a dramatic religious split in the church with the formation of protestantism. Catholics reacted with the counter-reformation to revitalize catholicism. They needed to attract viewers with religious art that more significantly impacted onlookers. Other baroque elements apply, like tenebrism, shallow space, motion, emotion, etc. Less intrigued with mathematical relationships (than the high renaissance) Interested in light and motion with a loose style that involved a collection of brush strokes that came together to show movement. More iconography, much more popular in the north than in the south. Mannerist painting tends to be more artificial and less naturalistic than renaissance painting. Realists rejected romanticism, which had dominated french literature and art since the late 18th century. Realismrevolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the romantic movement. Joseph wright of derby, a philosopher giving a lecture at the orrery, 18th century, oil on canvas.
