ARH 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Carlo Maderno, Marble Sculpture
17 Nov 2016
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17th century italy and spain - southern baroque period. Baroque irregularly shaped pearl (style of this and italian renaissance) Drama (in subject and in color) heightened sense of. Powerful visual rhetoric images that speak to the viewer because they are so. Why do we see this dramatic art emerge: art commissioned to restore the predominance and centrality of the rcc renewed energy in the church (reformation and counter reformation) Pope urban the 8th patroned him a lot. How did bernini make his david baroque: moment depicted. Bernini"s david is caught in the middle of the fight with goliath. There is drama, intense, very pure sense of movement and fluidity. Face, legs, hair, torso are all intense. His toes gripped tightly onto the pedestal. By: carlo maderno, vatican city, italy, 1606-1612, southern baroque. Dates back to 3rd century c. e. and did not last. Pope paul the 5th commissioned maderno to complete this work in 1606.
