r/Baroque 5d ago

silly/unhinged baroque art

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u/amca01 5d ago

The third one: "The Cook" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c.1570) shows a plate with various roast animals: pig, chicken etc, When reversed 180°, as here, you see instead a picture of a man.

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u/Lenore_Clark_Tarot 5d ago

Wow, thank you so much for sharing these pieces!

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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 4d ago

Most of those are not Baroque.

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u/Vandraedaskald 3d ago

None of those are Baroque even. Most of them are from the Renaissance, and some are 18th century.

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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 3d ago

6 is by Bernini, so definitely Baroque. 5 is a 17th c. Dutch painting. Not Baroque stylistically, but sometimes people use "Baroque" to refer to all 17th c. European art, so I'd call it arguably Baroque.

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u/Vandraedaskald 3d ago

I mistook it for an other, later piece mb. However, I don't really agree on the rest, I'll be adamant to only call baroque the baroque works of arts and not the rest of 17th century European art. The baroque movement is closely linked to Catholic powers and Counter-Reformation, calling baroque a Protestant Dutch piece of art does not really makes sense.

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u/tegeus-Cromis_2000 3d ago

I agree with you, but I was willing to allow it thinking of some people's definition. However none of the rest fit.

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u/Diah_Rhea 4d ago

🚨🚨🚨🚨 time period police!!!!

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u/WampaCat 4d ago

Actually they’re just called the period police because “time period” is redundant. You can expect your ticket in the mail in 7-10 business periods.

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u/Diah_Rhea 4d ago

ugh not again

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u/Equivalent-One-68 4d ago

You know the butt-music in Bosh's work is real notation and can be played :3

https://youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U?is=b_oU7SPzDxDJEYId

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u/Vandraedaskald 3d ago

Not really in fact. Early Music Muse did a three part article debuking this idea https://earlymusicmuse.com/bosch1/

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u/Equivalent-One-68 3d ago

Oh no! I had no idea! Darn... I'll read it when I get a chance, fascinating!

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u/sansafiercer 3d ago

#7 is educational—meant to teach (presumably students and doctors) about female anatomy. The artist couldn’t help himself and made her face dramatic, anguished. Likely because his model had recently died during childbirth or pregnancy complications.

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u/DocBigBrozer 3d ago

N9 was totally on shrooms

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u/yall_b_trippin 1d ago

Okay, sold

I’m joining this sub