Art History question about Baroque Art?

What are all the characteristics of the Baroque period in general?





What are specific characteristics(majoy and minor) of Baroque art of the seventeenth century?





What are characteristics of Late Baroque art of the Early Eighteenth Century?





What are characteristics of the Rococo art?





10 points for most accurate characteristics! Thanks.

Art History question about Baroque Art?
Well, the Baroque Period, c.1600-1750, was a broad, regional style of art that had evolved from and slightly overlapped with the Mannerist Style. Italy, France, Spain, and Flanders were all regional centers of art that were highly influenced by the Counter-Reformation. Holland was Protestant, so the subjects were naturally different.





Certain painters had carried certain characteristics. Caravaggio had relied on using overly religious scenes to draw upon feeling and appeal to emotion. This was achieved through extreme chiaroscuro, or tenebrism. His art was the embodiment of Counter-Reformation art. Dutch Baroque art was slightly different. Vermeer for example, had focused on an portraying women in domestic scenes in a sense of admiration. Others, specifically the group of painters called the "Little Dutch Painters", as opposed to the "Big Three" (Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals), had painted a variety of different types of still life portraits as well as landscapes and big sky paintings, all allegorical. The patronage of Dutch Art was usually the bourgeoisie (middle/merchant classes).





Within Baroque Art, a very broad category to cover, there were several subdivisions. This includes the French Baroque's "Sun-King/Lous XIV's" political propaganda.





Rococo Art, c.1700-1770, was no longer painted for the middle classes. It was instead a type of art that was commissioned by the wealthy aristocrats for salon entertainment. Rococo Art is characterized by frivolous and amorous pursuits of the subjects in paintings. Wealth was often portrayed in paintings of this style (such as jewelry, citrus fruit that had to be imported, salt). The color palette, as opposed to the later Romanticism's warm earthy tones, is full of cool, candy and baby colors.
Reply:Rococo art is much lighter and whimsical while Baroque was not, it was harsher
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General characteristics of baroque art is a sense of movement, energy, and tension (whether real or implied). Strong contrasts of light and shadow enhance the dramatic effects of many paintings and sculptures. Even baroque buildings, with their undulating walls and decorative surface elements, imply motion. Intepainters sought a grander sense of space and truer depiction of perspective in their works. Realism is another integral feature of baroque art; the figures in paintings are not types but individuals with their own personalities.