Walking casually along the ancient stone roads in Rome, I just came out of a church, turned around and unconsciously walked into another church. The city has an endless baroque architecture, sculptures and paintings. Those passionate and dynamic sculptures, resplendent church interiors, majestic trompe l'oeil fresco ceilings… Only with the naked eye can you truly feel the uncanny workmanship of the Baroque masters.
Church of Saint Louis the King, Rome
Florence is the heart of the Renaissance, and Rome is the cradle of Baroque art. Although every city in Europe has artistic traces from different historical periods, this is not a generalization that can intuitively help travelers understand the spirit of the city. Baroque, Baroque, there are different opinions on the original origin of the term, but a widely spread view is that it comes from the Portuguese "Barroco", which means irregular, weird, and also refers to irregular pearls, It was used by many scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to ridicule and ridicule various works of art that were very different from the Baroque period to the Renaissance period. The works of art of the Renaissance return from divinity to humanity, and most of them are regular and follow classical norms, emphasizing nature. In the Baroque period, the popular art style became exaggerated and dramatic, with magnificent paintings, magnificent church interiors, and rich sculptures. Compared with the sense of tranquility that Renaissance art works usually give people, Baroque art does cause people to feel dizzy because of the high saturation of colors and elements and the use of trompe l’oeil techniques, but this kind of vertigo is the vertigo of happiness.
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
It was a summer afternoon when I met Santa Teresa created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, where the sculpture is located, looks very simple on the outside. When I stepped in, I saw only three or two tourists, and I even wondered if I went to the wrong place. Walking to the interior of the church, the natural light in the afternoon shines on the gold-plated metal strips on the altar, refracting dazzling light, and the marble-cast Santa Teresa lies quietly on the floating clouds. Her lips parted slightly, the tips of her toes tightened slightly, and she opened her arms as if feeling the numbness like an electric shock. She felt the love from God conveyed by the angel's golden arrow, as well as the extreme pain and joy it brought, she indulged in it and couldn't stop it. The combination of marble and metal, and the contrast between light and dark, make "The Rapture of Santa Teresa" show a strong drama.
The Calling of Saint Matthew
When it comes to chiaroscuro, it is natural not to skip Caravaggio, who applied this technique to perfection. In "The Calling of Saint Matthew", the mysterious light source of the picture just fits the position of the window of the church where it is located, as if natural light penetrates the wall and blends with the painting. Jesus is hidden in the shadow on the right, and the chiaroscuro separates the mundane from the sacred in the painting, directing people's attention to Matthew, who is pointed by Jesus. Just like the ups and downs of Caravaggio's life, his paintings are always full of imaginative theater, as if the characters in the paintings are alive, and a mysterious and even potentially dangerous plot is staged in front of your eyes .
St. Ignatius Church
The large-scale trompe l'oeil frescoes in The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola were painted by Andrea Pozzo, who created the visual effect of three-dimensional space on the flat ceiling, even for the church Draws a "dome" that doesn't exist. The eyes struggled to remember every detail of the magnificent frescoes, but the neck suffered.
Baroque , "irregular pearl", is also a pearl. Baroque, Impressionism, and Fauvism were all satirized by strict connoisseurs when they were born, but today no one will question their contribution to the development of human art. It is a kind of happiness for human beings to have different feelings when viewing different types of works of art.
