Baroque

• From the Portuguese word "Barocca" which means "A pearl of irregular shape."
• Baroque is the period of artistic styles in exaggerated motion, drama, and tension.
• Important events in baroque period:

  Scientific Discoveries

  Religion

  Colonization

  Political situations
• Chiaroscuro - The play of dark and light.
• Michelangelo Caravaggio - Considered as an outcast of society due to the lack of reverence for religious subjects in his painting.
• Peter Paul Rubens - Treated art as the highest level of orderliness.
• Velazquez - Trained in the refinement of art.
• Rembrandt - Individual and compassion to the masses and poor people were shown all through his lifetime.
• Tenebrism - A subtle technique to put emphasis on the character and to send off a soft mood.
• Bernini - Trained under the rigid, disciplined, craftmanship of his sculptor-father himself.