Baroque Religion

Artists that concentrated on the Baroque style of painting had an uncanny ability to display their style more so than the artists of the Renaissance era. In respect to their different approach towards shape, room, and work of art, the differences in their styles resulted in dissimilar descriptions. Renaissance and Baroque seem to concentrate towards the treatment of space, appearance, and color. This uniqueness affects the description of a painting and therefore it cannot be seen. More so, than in comparing Perugino's Christ delivering the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter from the Early Renaissance to Caravaggio's exchange of St. Paul from the Baroque style.

The Baroque period was a time of conflicting religions, and is one of the major movements in art since the renaissance era. Beginning in 17th century Italy and later spreading into Northern Europe, the Baroque era was one that had a mission and an objective in mind: to restore faith back into the Catholic Church and to counter the growing conversion of protestants. Having already launched the counter-reformation in the 16th century, it did not fare well against Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation and his 95 thesis of debating points in 1917. Protestant believers argued that faith was the one and only way to earn salvation and god’s grace. Luther accused the church of nepotism and was able to announce protestant as new branch of

Mood is the affections (to impress the mid or move the feelings of our emotions, emotional response). Composers of this time shaped or molded a musical language to depict the affections. Music is written to fit the needs of society in our always changing world. Church music during this time was very elaborate and music was usually only heard in the churches and if you were wealth enough during that time you could go hear music in public opera houses. Religious music was a huge part of baroque era; it saw the creation of tonality, made changes in musical notation, and developed new instrumental playing techniques.

Most forms of Catholic Baroque art are assertive and, as intended, assault ones senses. The evolution of religious art from the uniform composition characteristic of the Italian Renaissance through the evolving Mannerism in to the bold and striking Baroque was striking to say the least. The stylistic changes from Da Vinci's The Last Supper to Tintoretto's version in the 1590's bear a perfect example of this transition. The point of view in Da Vinci's was central and allowed for a

Therefore, the catholic church used the baroque art to communicate religious theme with direct and emotional involvement. The Baroque style of art unlike the Renaissance is more clear and emotional in its images and paintings. One of the most popular paintings in baroque style is the ‘Ecstasy of Saint Theresa’ that was done by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1652. The painting was criticized to be erotic because it is too emotional, seems to be in motion and too real (artble.

Considering the social and political instability and the enormous financial drain brought by the endless warfare in central, western and northern Europe in the 17th century, it is remarkable that Baroque music not only survived but also developed rapidly (Buelow 9-10). How could Baroque music develop so rapidly in the great religious turmoil in 17th century? The answer is that the conflict between Catholic and Protestant churches and the political fragmentation in the 17th century spurred the rapid rise of Baroque music. Firstly, the conflict between Catholic churches and Protestant churches induced their competition for more spiritually moving music, which led to an increasing demand for musicians, and offered more freedom of innovation for composers. Secondly, the conflict between Catholic churches and Protestant churches in the 17th century led to the political

The light of the picture is relatively dark comparing to the portrait’s face. In his paintings, Rembrandt exhibited knowledge of classical iconography, where he adapted his skill to fit his own experience’ requirements; besides all the things we can feel just from our eyes, there is deeper artistic value under the pictures. Many artists connect Baroque art with it. When it comes to Baroque art, which was the type of art that comprised of painting, sculpture and architecture. Baroque art was known to reflect more on the religious tension of the time. Most of the artists reflected more on the desires of the Catholic Church in Rome, where the Roman Catholic was trying to affirm itself in the wake of the Protestants reformation. Most of the Baroque paintings were aimed at exhorting the divine majesty of the church, but the primary purpose of most of these paintings was to strengthen kingdoms’ reign under the religious influence like Spain and France. The Catholic Church dominated these two nations. Most of the paintings which were created that time period tried to compare both Catholic and the Protestants religions. The primary aim was to show how Protestants had less religious content when compared to the Catholic religion. Most the Baroque paintings were intended to persuade people not to be an apostate. However, most of the Baroque paintings were designed to affect the public. Catholic inspired a Baroque art that was done on a large scale. Most of the places where these paintings were found were churches and palaces. Artists of Baroque art were known to portray a sense of movement by their work, by the means of swirling spirals and upward diagonals. They made good use of extravagant color schemes, and this was aimed at dazzling as they surprised the targeted audience. As time went on, there were some people who started criticizing Baroque art

Many of the Spanish Colonial Era Churches in the Province of Albay have succumbed to the “wrecker ball” culture and there are only a few left. One of these earthquake Baroque treasures is the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Porteria in the town of Daraga which is representative on an era in the province’s history. Built mainly with volcanic rocks during the 18th Century, the church that was declared as a National Treasure, bears details of the Baroque style and the shell of the structure is still intact even if most of the interior had already been destroyed or altered. Stakeholders decided to conserve the structure and restore the portions that could still be possibly restored especially the Eastern and Northern walls.

Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now was released on February 1, 2005, originally on an Audio CD, and the genre of music is Baroque Pop. It has the best album artwork because of its craft and the meaning behind the image. Usually, album covers are done with such creativity there may be too many colors or visual aspects that will be hard for a person to try to understand the meaning behind the image. For this image, the use of color or any other visual aspect is not the issue. It is done as an understated grayscale photograph, not allowing from any distraction from the woman in the middle. The contrast of lighting on the young woman is helpful as well as depicting on what they eye should focus on.

Baroque Period, during which a few of the greatest composers on this planet were born, brought classical music onto a whole new level. The word “Baroque”, which came from the Portuguese for “the imperfect pearl”, implies strange, extravagant and overblown. Toccata, fugue, chorale, ortario, and the concerto Grosso, all of these special musical forms were created and represent this period. The six main characteristics: increased emotional expression, contrast, use of basso continuo, continued harmonic development, use of ornament, and the emphasis of improvisation, molded the unique style of music of the Baroque period.

During the Baroque Period the church and monarchy, which had been traditionally the most influential patrons of the arts, were replaced in the Netherlands by the middle class. Due to this economic shift, the style of painting evolved. Portraits, landscapes, seascapes, still-lives, flower painting and genre themes became the dominate style in the early 16th century. Depictions of city and country had also rose in popularity and the demand naturalistic views of local and imaginary scenery had gone up as well. A distinctive type of painting to be developed during this time were interior genre works, which showed people going about daily life: letter reading, letter writing and housekeeping (Figure 1.). With the higher demand for art and a rapidly

Other possible subjects aspiring painters could emblematize in baroque paintings include the actual implementation of solutions to social dilemmas or the "signs of the times". Moreover, depictions of reformed persons who terminated illegal drugs into their systems, children enjoying genuine moments of whimsical entertainment, ministers various faiths posing together with harmonious unity, freed prisoners of war shouting with jubilation and families who are simultaneous expressing joy because of the extermination of murder, abuse and terrorism are indeed a welcome development in modern baroque paintings. Research should be done on whether more shades of light can be embossed upon baroque paintings. Lastly, Christian artists should be positive

Gregorian chants originated mostly in western and central Europe, it was developed and mostly used in Catholic Church’s as a spiritual sign of worship to god. It was also sung in Latin as pure melody. Latin affected the Gregorian chant itself because it was created in Latin, the melodies are very relative to the accents and words. The three ways the chant was set to text were the tropes, the organum, and the jubilus.

Art in the Medieval Times was dreary and bland. Many works of art were solely about God or holy figures. The most obvious change from the Renaissance to Medieval Times was the arts, according to Document A and also that “One begins to know the names of the artists ... feel stronger emotions in the subjects”. This shows that Renaissance art not only changed in style, in changed in how it made the viewer feel when seeing the art. Similarly, in Document A, Renaissance art is described as “new artistic styles would echo the broader movements and interests of the new age.…”. As compared to Medieval Times, the style of art became something similar to the time that people could relate to. In the Medieval Times, art was just meant to extol God’s many feats. People who viewed the painting were supposed to put that style of art on a pedestal. Medieval art was supposed to be worshipped, not so much understood. The individual in the Medieval Times was supposed to take away from the painting that the only thing that mattered in their life was the Roman Catholic church and God already had a plan for their lives. But in comparison, Renaissance art was supposed to empower and help people of the time to understand themselves and the fact that they can change their own lives.

There is little to argue about when suggesting that the Baroque period of art and architecture during the 1600’s “was characterized by a positive, vigorous, and passionate style” (Gerdes 253), enveloped in lavish splendor, glorifying the imagery of highborn aristocrats, religion, and homoeroticism. The theatrical, grandiose, and ornate style was heavily influenced by Christianity, life, love, symbolism, allegory, and morbidity. The artist Michelangel Merisi da Caravaggio a leading artist during this period used a “combination of religious scenes in everyday locales filled with rough looking common people” (Kleiner 549) along with the intensity of the dramatic Baroque passion for richness in color and texture. One of Caravaggio’s most famous pieces of art was the Entombment of Christ, and David with the Head of Goliath, for which “he painted his own head as the victim, with blood drips from his freshly severed neck, sparing nobody the gory facts of decapitation” (Harris 49). The disturbed genius was also interested in the fresco painting of the Renaissance and this is perhaps what enticed Caravaggio to paint the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The history of the Baroque period cannot be discussed further without mentioning the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, whose “Baroque paintings rose to universal significance and appeal” (Gerdes 264). His style created gorgeous movement and fluidity characterized by