Painting baroque

The painting baroque is related to the cultural movement Baroque () which is often compared to the Absolutisme and with the Counter-Reformation.

Presentation

The Council of Thirty (1545-63), during which the Roman Catholic church had to answer many questions of internal reform raised as well by the Protesting S as by those which had remained within the Catholic church, required that paintings and the sculptures in the churches be addressed to illiterate rather than to the educated people.

This is why the Baroque art concentrated on the Saint S, the Virgin Mary and other well-known stories of the Bible. This design Populiste of the role of the Religious art is seen per many historians of art like one of the elements having led to the innovations of Caravage and of the brothers Carracci who officiated (and were made competition to obtain commissions) with Rome towards 1600.

However, although the religious Painting, the Painting of history, the Allegory S and the Portrait S were still regarded as the noblest subjects, the Paysage and the scenes of kind were also very widespread.

The Baroque art is characterized by rich and major colors, the sets of shades and of intense lights. Contrary to the Painting of the Rebirth, which depicts usually an event before it takes place, the artists baroques have a more dramatic approach by representing the action occurring. The Baroque art is famous to evoke the emotion and passion and not the rationality and the calm one which emerge from the Peinture of the Rebirth.

Characteristics

On the level of the pictorial Composition, painting baroque is characterized first of all by the use of many Couleur S sharp which go from the pink to the white while passing by blue. Then, one can note that the movement and contrasts are very present, with plays of light and shade (see: Clearly-obscure)

The painters baroques generally approach artistic Thèmes drawn from the legends and tales biblical or mythological.

Notable painters baroques

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