{"id":2109,"date":"2024-03-18T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T07:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:47:36","slug":"3-11-class-journal-baroque-in-italy-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/18\/3-11-class-journal-baroque-in-italy-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/11 Lecture Journal: Baroque in Italy &amp; Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Continuing from our previous class, we looked at some of Gianlorenzo Bernini\u2019s works. Being a sort of renaissance man who was interested in a variety of mediums, Bernini was the person who was trusted with the ongoing, seemingly eternal <em>St.Peter <\/em>basilica by Pope Paul V, who was a member of the Borghese family. His most impressive work, to me, is without a doubt <em>The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. <\/em>Not only is this a wonderful proof of Bernini\u2019s skills as both an architect and a sculptor, but also one of, if not the most representative work of the Baroque period. He managed to integrate the viewers into the scene as a way of creating coexistence in the display setting by using natural lights and illumination through the glass ceiling, on top of the already expressive, exquisitely sculpted scene of Saint Theresa getting punctured by the love of God. This work bridges the elements that would come to be known as that of this era: The expressiveness, the coexistence, the ephemeral, snap-shot, somewhat theatrical nature of the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving on the artworks in Spain created during this era \u2013 we could see the appearance of a new genre of painting that\u2019s emerging: hyper-organized, intricate, meaningful still-lifes. Those like Juan S\u00e1nchez Cot\u00e1n\u2019s <em>Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber<\/em>, which utilizes a Caravaggistic manner of shading (with the sharp contrast and deep, dark background), as well as a very harmonious composition, making for an interesting, unlikely image that exceeds one\u2019s belief of the physical realm. And humans are also, as ever, depicted with great innovation and a completely new, intriguing manner. In Jusepe de Ribera\u2019s<em> The Club-Footed Boy, <\/em>where a beggar boy is used as an allegory for the role of each individual in the contemporary religious context; or in <em>Las Meninas <\/em>(widely recognized as one of the greatest painting ever made), where the varied subjects and ambiguous points of view is highly contended, and of which composition is so stacked and crowded, yet still managed somehow to create a sense of movement and harmony within movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing from our previous class, we looked at some of Gianlorenzo Bernini\u2019s works. Being a sort of renaissance man who was interested in a variety of mediums, Bernini was the person who was trusted with the ongoing, seemingly eternal St.Peter basilica by Pope Paul V, who was a member of the Borghese family. His most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}