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BAROQUE ART 🎭 love, ur local art mom 🩵

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A selection of Baroque Art.

1. L’Estasi di Santa Teresa  (1647 - 1652) , Gian Lorenxo Bernini | Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome

2. High Alter: Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (1668) painting: Guillaume Courtois ; sculpture: Antonio Raggi | Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Rome (1658 - 1670), Gian Lorenzo Bernini

3. The Loves of Gods (1597 - 1608), Annibale Carracci & Studio | Palazzo Farnese, Rome

4. The Golden Age (1637), Pietro da Cortona | Palazzo Pitti, Florence

5. Aeneas’ Flight from Troy (1598), Frederico Barocci | Galleria Borghese, Rome

6. The Adoration of The Magi (1624) Peter Paul Rubens | King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

7. The Sacrifice of Isaac (1603), Michelangelo Merisi Carravagio | Uffizi, Florence

Much of our religious consciousness is affected by art; we have inherited specific images that are more artistic than biblical.  For example, we always imagine St. Paul being knocked from a horse on the Damascus Road.  There is no mention of the horse in scripture.  Is that a bid deal? Perhaps not.  But when Caravaggio placed Paul on the horse, a sign of privilege or royalty, he removed Paul from…

The Assumption of Mary

Much of our religious consciousness is affected by art; we have inherited specific images that are more artistic than biblical.  For example, we always imagine St. Paul being knocked from a horse on the Damascus Road.  There is no mention of the horse in scripture.  Is that a bid deal? Perhaps not.  But when Caravaggio placed Paul on the horse, a sign of privilege or royalty, he removed Paul from…

With Annibale and Ludovico, Agostino Carracci (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) formed the famous trio of painters and printmakers who graced 16th century art in Italy. The Carraccis used to work together in almost all of their painting and architectural projects. It is not only difficult but somewhat irrelevant to identify one’s work from the other two considering their collaborative approach.

Agostino Carracci was one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati who helped shape the careers of many a School of Bologna painter. A trained architect, Agostino undertook the decoration of churches and palaces like the Gallery in Palazzo Farnese. He travelled to Venice and Parma, mostly with Annibale, to complete some of the most elaborate Bolognese frescoes.

Romans predicted: only he who has a tinfoil hat and the Fat Cat will triumph at the Mayan End of the World Day. You can see masterpieces (without restoration) which reveal ingenious prediction by renowned artists at Palazzo Farnese, Rome.