Dove si trova il Barocco?
Dove si trova il Barocco?
Lo stile barocco fiorì a Roma all'inizio del 1600 e si diffuse in varia misura in tutta Europa fino al XVIII secolo. I papi, i maggiori committenti dell'epoca, utilizzarono l'arte barocca per autocelebrarsi, ma anche per glorificare Dio e diffondere i dogmi della Controriforma.
What is Federico Barocci known for?
- Federico Barocci, original name Federico Fiori Barocci, also spelled Baroccio or Barrocio, (born c. 1526, Urbino, Duchy of Urbino, Papal States—died 1612, Urbino), leading painter of the central Italian school in the last decades of the 16th century and an important precursor of the Baroque style.
What was Giuseppe Barocci's style?
- Barocci’s attractively fluent and softly coloured style, based largely upon Correggio, may be considered as an exceptional precursor of the Baroque style. Barocci abandoned his Roman Mannerism…
What happened to St John Barocci?
- Fearing his illness was terminal, he left Rome in 1563; four years later he was said to experience a partial remission after prayers to the Virgin. Barocci henceforth often complained of frail health, though he remained productive for nearly four decades more.
Did Rubens use Barocci's brushwork in Italy?
- Barocci's emotive brushwork was not lost on Peter Paul Rubens when he was in Italy. Rubens is known to have made a sketch of his dramatic Martyrdom of St Vitale, in which the martyr's undulating flesh is the eye of another whirlwind of figures, gestures, and drama.
