Visual Arts History 1040 Chapter 19: Summary for Chapter 19 Kleiner Text
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Chapter nineteen (italy and spain 1600 - 1700): Art historians call the seventeenth century italy and spain baroque a term that probably derived from the. Portuguese word for an irregularly shaped pearl, in contrast to the precision and orderly rationality of italian. Renaissance classicism, baroque art and architecture are dynamic, theatrical, and highly ornate. The greatest italian baroque sculptor was gianlorenzo bernini who was also an important architect, in ecstasy of. Saint teresa he marshalled the full capabilities of architecture, sculpture, and painting to create an intensely emotional experience for worshipers consistent with the catholic counter-reformation principle of using art works to inspire devotion and piety. In painting caravaggio broke new ground by employing stark and dramatic contrasts of light and dark (tenebrism) and by setting religious scenes in everyday locales filled with rough looking common people, an early masterpiece. Calling of saint matthew for example takes place in an ordinary tavern.