The Baroque Era

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The Baroque Era
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Baroque Art

• Baroque - The art style or art movement of the
  Counter-Reformation in the seventeenth century.
  Although some features appear in Dutch art, the
  Baroque style was limited mainly to Catholic
  countries. It is a style in which painters,
  sculptors, and architects sought emotion,
  movement, and variety in their works.

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Chiaroscuro

• The use of natural light and the bold play of
  volume and void.

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Caravaggio, The Arrest of Christ
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Caravaggio. Flagellation of Christ
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Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew
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Caravaggio, Medusa
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Rembrandt, An Old Jew Seated
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Rembrandt, The Sacrifice of Abraham
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Rembrandt, A Scholar
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Rembrandt, An Old Woman The Artist's Mother
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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes
Tulp
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Rembrandt, The Nightwatch
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Rembrandt, Landscape
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The Musicians, Caravaggio
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Bacchus, Caravaggio
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The Union of Earth and Water, Rubens
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Bacchus, Rubens
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Adoration, Rubens
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Isabella Brant, Rubens
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Boy With a Dragon, Bernini
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Bernini, David
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Bernini, Dove of the Holy Spirit
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Narrative Poem Requirements

• Story poem with
• Beginning
• Middle
• End

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Figurative Language

• Narrative poem must have at least three examples
  of figurative language.
• Figurative language includes
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration/ Antithesis
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Understatement

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Sensory Detail

• Narrative poems must have at least three examples
  of sensory detail.
• Sensory detail includes
• Sight
• Smell
• Feel/ Touch
• Sound
• Taste

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Mental Movie

• Narrative poems must make reader create a mental
  movie (imagery), where a picture is the be
  seen in the mind of the reader.

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Narrative Requirements

• Three pieces of figurative language used.
• Three sensory details describing the scene.
• A point-of-view story from a character found in
  one of the Baroque Era paintings.
• Blank verse (unrhymed poetry).
• 34 lines long.