How to recognize Baroque art

A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris about how to recognize Baroque art.

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The Baroque was a very interesting time in art, such great drama and intensity!

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Incredibly helpful video that presents the key ideas from the period, presented in a visually pleasing way with illustrative examples.

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Very concise analysis , baroque tenebrous and chiaroscuros treatment of creating drama and gestures discuss quite fairly.

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Amazing video , finally somebody explained how to recognize the difference )) Please make more similar videos , love it !!!

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This video just reinvigorated my love for art. Baroque is by far my favorite. 😍

[@Sasha0927]

I've never seen this side of David and I like it, lol. Both versions, Michelangelo and Bernini are absolutely stunning, but I am so moved by the latter. I love the intensity and power. From what I can tell so far, I'm a fan of the Baroque art style. It did get more challenging to identify the later examples as Baroque (e.g. the Vermeer), but as I'm exposed to more, it'll get easier. :)

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This helped me alot to understand the differances between styles in art. Thanks for this!

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What a great video! Especially with northern art of the time it can be difficult to note the baroque charactersitics. Thanks for spending time on that too and for showing a lot of examples! Very pedagogic and very useful!

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Love conciseness and brief videos. They’re short and very Baroque

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I've always been fascinated by Baroque art the most out of all the art movements, especially the work of the Dutch masters but I never really understood why until I watched this video.

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YIKES .. so so love this Bernini .. the figurefocus, Expressiveness, the eloquently articulated tightwound Energy !

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I especially like how didactic and educational it was! Thanks, very useful video! I absolutely love that it highlights the overarching general characteristics of the style, giving us an overview. Hope to see this kind of video from other styles and geographic locations too!

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Great video! Used it for my class. Thanks!

[@apartedaarte6896]

The discrepancy between Italian and Flemish painting in the baroque period makes some art historians question if we could actually talk about a baroque genre in Flemish art (except in the most notorious cases of Rubens or Rembrandt who clearly incorporated an italian influence), because we can't forget that, in the end, the Baroque was a concept emerged in Italy, and most countries have a specific environment of cultural and artistic confluences, which, in the case of Flemish art, are particularly notorious, contradicting even many formal aspects of the Italian baroque canon. Svetlana Alpers in her "Art of Describing" has defended this point, not seeing Vermeer as a baroque painter, and much more as an artist surged in the naturalist and pormenorized tradition of Flemish art, and as we see, his paintings seem much more fitting in the context of the cerebral and quiet vein of a Van Eyck painting than of a Caravaggio one. Saying that, i think this was a very clear and thematically incisive video, and maybe what i'm talking about is a large enough topic for not being included in such a directly explanatory video, but i think it should be questioned more often until what point can we actually frame the 17th century dutch painting in the baroque context.

[@smarthistoryvideos]

The problem may be the result of art historians for so long seeing primarily through the lens of Italy (but that is a bigger problem). It should also be noted that that any stylistic rubric such as Baroque (a term that was not used in the same manner when the work was new), will fall apart under careful examination-even within Italy. Such terms remain useful only for introductory investigation.

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Excellent analysis, absorbing. (UK)

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thank you very much for this, i am sure that if i get on my bachelor arthistory examination a question about baroque, i will have no problems describing it anymore :) . I would love to see this kind of video comparing baroqe and manierism or baroqe and clasicissm , or also about architecture :) I hope that you will find the time to make these amazing videos. :)

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Great piece guy's .. Bernini .. WOW

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And?

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Still waiting

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@@taterazay2302 LOL sorry, forgot I even posted anything like this. I graduated with a straight A. I even picked Baroque painting as a topic of discussion out of all the things!! Time flies, I'm now in my final year of University, studying graphic design. Again, I will be graduating from history of art in a month. So I'll definitely visit this video many times again! :D

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Renaissance is so more relaxed, calm, captures humbleness , centered on character, 😁, it all moves me,

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What an amazing video that I found quite helpful to understand Baroque style. I was also expecting Baroque architecture which unfortunately was not covered in this video but good work though.

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Baroque depicts action and motion, while renaissance depicts intention, planning and spirituality. The comparision between the two Davids explains this difference with huge force. Michelangelo shows us the crucial seconds right before the action, those when the action has been planned. In my opinion that's a lot more powerful than the action itself, because this involves the most human attitude: the thinking, the planning. In the renaissance they intended the human being as center of decision, while in baroque it was considered more important to act. (under someone else directives: god, lord, king, pope...)

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[@catherine_f_t700]

Very interesting, but I have been a little surprised. I saw Vermeer as sort of a classical painter because his work is so intimate, so far from the violence of baroque.

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My favourite period

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