Baroque
バロック / 1600–1750 / Style / Historical Styles
The total-art style that pulls the viewer in with ovals, curved surfaces, dramatic light and abundant ornament — treating architecture, sculpture, painting and urbanism as one staged spectacle of power and faith.
Ovals and curved surfaces / Dramatic light / Illusionistic ceilings / Architecture fused with sculpture
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Bernini and Borromini / the visual strategy of the Counter-Reformation / Baroque urban planning