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Baroque
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| Architecture | Curvilinear Facades | Dynamic tension; rejection of static planes. |
| Painting | Tenebrism and Chiaroscuro | Heightened spiritual drama; controlled focus. |
| Music | Basso Continuo | Harmonic foundation and rhythmic propulsion. |
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Caravaggio
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (painter)/) (born 1571, Milan; died 1610, Porto Ercole) was an Italian Baroque painting artist whose revolutionary use of chiaroscuro and intensely realistic subject matter profoundly altered the trajectory of Western painting. His early training remains somewhat opaque, though established consensus points to a four-year apprenticeship in the Milanese studio of Simone Peterzano, a lesser-known contemporary of [Ti…
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Caravaggio
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Caravaggio (painter) arrived in Rome around 1592, where he initially struggled, surviving by painting minor decorative elements for workshops specializing in genre scenes involving playing cards and fortune-tellers. His breakthrough arrived with Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who recognized the raw, unsettling power in Caravaggio (painter)’s nascent style.
The defining characteristic of Caravaggio (painter)’s mature Roman style is the development of **[… -
Landscapes
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The Romantic Sublime
During the Romantic era, particularly exemplified by artists like Caspar David Friedrich, the landscape transitioned from a backdrop to an active participant in human introspection. The Sublime Landscape concept dictated that the depiction must simultaneously dwarf the human figure and evoke a sense of awe mingled with terror, often achieved through dramatic chiaroscuro and vertically exagge… -
Peter Paul Rubens
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| Mantua | Duke Vincenzo I | Fresco restoration; theoretical application of counterpoint to chiaroscuro |
| Rome | Cardinal Scipione Borghese | Analysis of Roman statuary; development of the "seven degrees of ecstatic contortion" |
| Venice | [Doge Leonardo Donato](/entries…