Lecture 13

March 13
Baroque

Baroque Illusionistic Ceiling Painting

Two Baroque approaches to decorated ceilings:

Quadro riportato = trompe l'oeil ceiling painting composed as if each scene were a framed easel painting

Illusionistic ceiling composition = trompe l'oeil ceiling painting that uses the real architecture of the space to create the illusion of an open space

Farnese Gallery

Annibale Carracci. Ceiling of gallery, Palazzo Farnese. 1597-1601.

Frescoes in the Palazzo Farnese

Quadro riportato	Illusionistic ceiling composition

Guido Reni. Aurora. 1615-18.	Guercino. Aurora. 1621-23. Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

Triumph in the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned

Giovanni Battista Gaulli. The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned. 1672-85.

IHS = monogram of Jesus

Detail of Il Gesu ceiling


Michelangelo. Last Judgment. 1536-41.	Giovanni Battista Gaulli. The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and the Fall of the Damned. 1672-85.

Caravaggio
1571 - 1610

Boy with a Basket of Fruit

Caravaggio. Boy with a Basket of Fruit. c. 1593-94.

The Calling of St. Matthew

Caravaggio. The Calling of Saint Matthew. 1599-1600.

Contarelli Chapel

Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesci, Rome.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

chiaroscuro = contrast between light and dark

tenebrism = the use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting

"New Realism" of Caravaggio

"He came upon the scene at a time when realism was not much in fashion and when figures were made according to convention and manner and satisfied more the taste for gracefulness than for truth." - Bellori, Lives of the Painters

Conversion of St. Paul

Caravaggio. The Conversion of St. Paul. 1601.
Duane Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. 6th ed.