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european baroque culture and art - Coggle Diagram
european baroque culture and art
Culture
Music
17th century
Were great developments in music, composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi composed operas
Literature
Tragedy
Tales of sad situations which ended badly for the protagonists
Tragicomedy
Plays that combined both comic and tragic elements
Comedy
Amusing tales of daily life
Science
Mathematics
The Cartesian coordinate system
The astronomical
Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler validated the theory of heliocentrism
Verifying this through an experiment
Deducing what should happen in nature if this hypothesis was correct
In physics
Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation and Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer to measure atmospheric pressure
Reflecting to find an explanation, known as hypothesis
William Harvey discovered the double circulatory system
Observing nature
Philosophy
René Descartes
the philosophy that reality could only be understood through reason
Following the rationalist method, the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza reached the conclusion that God and nature were identical
Empiricism
maintained that knowledge could only be confirmed through experimental verification
Baroque art
Architecture
Churches
Palaces
Decorative features
Gardens and squares
Open spaces
Fragmented features
Curved features
Sculpture and art
Main characteristics
Realism
The portrayal of painful situations and scenes of daily life
Expressiveness
The provocation of intense emotions
Naturalism
Representing reality as faithfully as possible
The use of diagonal lines
In compositions so they were not symmetrical
Chiaroscuro
Meaning strong contrasts in light and shade were used in order to guide the viewer's eye to a specific point
Theatricality
Ilustrated by combining various figures and artistic features to form a scene