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.

BORROMINI: GENIUS OF THE BAROQUE

It was in late-antique buildings that Borromini found inspiration for breaking with the conventions of his times: he infused walls with concave-convex rhythms, crowned a dome lantern with a spiral ramp evoking a Babylonian ziggurat, and transformed cherubs into pilasters. Nevertheless, behind this seeming extravagance lay sound intellectual principles. His designs evolved from series of complex geometrical manipulations.

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