THE GIANTS OF THE BAROQUE

In the first half of the seventeenth century the style that appeared in Rome would dominate European taste for the next one hundred years: the Baroque. Among the painters, sculptors, and architects of the Roman Baroque, six were particularly influential: Annnibale and Agostino Carracci, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Gian-Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona and Francesco Borromini. Their careers were propelled by popes and cardinals born into powerful families: the Farnese, Borghese, Pamphilj, Barberini, and Chigi. These five lectures will look at the works of these six artists and their relationships with their patrons.

THE CARRACCI BROTHERS IN ROME

In 1582, the brothers Annibale and Agostino Carracci, with their cousin Ludovico, created the first painting academy in Rome. In 1600 the Loves of the Gods, was unveiled: a fresco executed by the Carracci on the ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese’s gallery. Its composition, based on the principle of quadri riportati (carried frames), takes the viewer into successive levels of illusion, and had huge impact at the time.

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