Lecture 04 The Baroque in Italy and Spain Part 1

[@LidyaMorozova]

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[@aeronm9679]

Thank you for showing us the floor plan as well as the close-up photos of the interiors of the buildings.

[@celcc9082]

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[@lindanguyen1]

Found this from your kids TikTok. I am 4 credits shy of an art history degree . I love Bernini !!

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

Awesome!

[@margoperlman2622]

hi!! i think it’s also important to add some history context for the baroque period :) the baroque art style was a response to the protestant church, as it was gaining popularity and the catholic church was facing a crisis. they decided to do two things: educate the public and draw them to their churches. as most people were illiterate, they were forced to make art explaining their bible, so this explains the narrative tendency of baroque art. it needs to be narrative in order to educate people. then the second characteristic is the exaggerated use of gold and big figures which are expressive and big. this is to draw people in and gain their attention, making them WANT to join the church. a lil explanation which might make baroque make more sense to you :)

[@gavinreid2741]

The Christian narrative in art for the illiterate was introduced and justified during the Medieval period. Arguments about the acceptability of art in church lasted hundreds of years. The protestant iconoclasts destroyed religious art because of the commandment in Exodus banning icon making.

[@katherineanderson3694]

These are super helpful for AP Art History students thank you!

[@grocheo1]

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[@RP-mm9ie]

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[@abcdefgggg-34h]

Hello! I am 13 years old, and I like art history very much! Thanks for your good videos, I could study more about the art history. But I have a question. I thought that 'Baroque' was a degrading word of the style. Does it just mean the change of the taste?

[@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343]

Whether it was a degrading or not I don't know. A lot of these terms started as insults and just turned into everyday terms. For example, when Vasari coined the term "Gothic" he meant it as an insult, but we just accept it as a title. I will have to do research to see if the same thing happened with Baroque.

[@abcdefgggg-34h]

@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 Yeah, I thought the term 'Baroque' was a degrading word like 'Gothic'. Thanks for your answer!

[@johnoriordan2469]

As concisely as i can. There are 2 aspects to this. 1. there are fashions in art (as in anything).The Muscular, emotional baroque reacted against both the serene renaissance and, call it, the erratic nature of Mannerism. So a reaction against Baroque arose in the early - to middle 18th C. Then 2. Baroque was seen as the art of the counter-reformation, and much at the service of the Catholic Church (at least in Italy and the RC lands of Bavaria/ Austria), and so it was treated with suspicion or disdain by many in Britain and some of North Europe. For both reasons baroque was close to a term of derision and it did not become 'widely respectable' again til mid 20th C.

[@yahyamhirsi]

@쏘송 You are correct. This teacher explains it very well kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJCWpHhuedpga6c Look at 9:01

[@yahyamhirsi]

I found this also in an article: "In 1753 Jean-Jacques Rousseau accused the Italians of composing ‘bizarre and baroque’ music, and in his Dictionnaire de musique (Paris, 1768) he formulated his well-known definition: ‘“baroque” music is that in which harmony is confused, charged with modulations and dissonances, in which the melody is harsh and little natural, intonation difficult and the movement constrained"

[@JohnDoe-wg9oh]

If my physics teacher ever asks me if some mass has kinetic or potential energy, I will tell him that it all depends on its shape. I can't wait to see his response, because now I have a reference 12:48 :)

[@jstantongood5474]

The obeslisk of piazza Navona was NOT originally in the middle of the stadium of Domitian. And it was not taken from Egypt. Its inscriptions date to the first century AD. and refer to the emperor Domitian. It was originally in the Iseo Campense nearby and then moved to the stadium of Maxentius in the Appian way where it was rediscovered in 1651. And incorporated into the fountain.

[@chilpdl6883]

Thank you!

[@retromograph3893]

Thanks, but where’s part 2?!

[@merlinkater7756]

11:37 don't forget the glowing eyes

[@melcombrowne5208]

I disagree, the four rivers represents the four rivers of creation. Gihon, pishon, Euphrates and tigris. What reason would the Danube, yellow (especially), Nile and some other.

[@ruffinmuffin2000]

I agree that’s it is meant as a biblical reference

[@timsteinmann3819]

It’s widely accepted that the rivers represent the Danube, Nile, Ganges, and Rio de la Plata. They represent the areas in which there was papal authority.

[@ScotGirl1314]

If it's not Baroque, don't fix it 😝

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Lecture 05 part 1

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