Baroque
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The term "Baroque" is not one that tends to appeal to most art-lovers in the 21st century - even though many people familiar with contemporary art might in fact have some difficulties in defining exactly what constitutes the Baroque style: We just know that it's overly elaborate and impossibly found of the curve and the swirl. But while we might well be justified in decrying the art of the Baroque as overly formal, impossibly fussy and entirely inauthentic for our own tastes, we must also remember the art of every period reflects the philosophical and cultural needs of that era. This is no less true of the Baroque period than of our own, and this paper examines how three pieces produced during the English Baroque period were both expressions of the individual perspective and skills of the artists themselves as well as more generally expressive of the period as a whole.The origins of the word baroque itself are no longer entirely clear, although it may be based on either the Portuguese word "barocco" or the Spanish word "barueco", both of which referred to an irregular pearl. The connection between such a gem and the style itself is also unclear - although given the preoccupation of Baroque artists for the absorption, reflection and refraction of light and the complex ways in which pearls themselves both reflect and absorb light there may well be some fundamental connection. Baroque art chronologically followed the neoclassicism of the Renaissance and it is tempting to see
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ts and designers in other countries. Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, the pre-eminent architects of England's Baroque period and arguably among its most skilled Baroque artisans in any medium, were both strongly influenced by Italian designers and artists.
Perhaps the single most important work of the Baroque period in England is Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral in London. It shows the typically international elements of English Baroque:
St. Paul's, the largest cathedral in England, is Wren's masterpiece. With it, he brought a repertoire of new forms (the dome, for example) and architectural combinations into English architecture. The building is something of an encyclopedia of Wren's impressions of the architecture of the continent... Wren fashioned the fatade of St. Paul's with two tiers of paired Corinthian columns like those of the Louvre and framed them between towers inspired by those of Borromini's Roman church of S. Agnese. Above the two-story base rises a tremendous peripteral dome that reinterprets Bramante's Tempietto of 1502. Pietro da Cortona's projecting curved porches of Santa Maria della Pace have become St. Paul's transept porches (Trachtenberg and Hyman 380-1).
Like all successful examples of Baroque architectu
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