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Baroque Sculpture: Baroque Sculpture.—Baroque sculpture of the 17th and 18th centuries, despite its essential architectural function, was replete with lively movement and pictorial in nature. Figures moved, flew, or were contorted in agony. Abundant draperies fell in tortured folds or were swept by the wind. Figures in histrionic poses were made more dramatic by vivid light and dark contrasts produced by pronounced undercutting or deep indentations.
For most sculpture soft, rather diffused light is agreeable, but some boldly undercut work as in the baroque style, gains force and dramatic effect when illuminated by a shaft of direct light, or spotlighted. Sculpture made for an open air setting must take into account the varied effects of light that will be encountered. This sculpture is apt to be broad in execution with little attention to subtle detail, and to exhibit very strong outlines, for under many Lighting conditions such a work is seen chiefly in silhouette.
Baroque. The baroque style replaced the auricular style in mid-17th century. The baroque returned to symmetry, introducing big bulbous forms and an ornamental vocabulary of fruit, flowers, and animals, broadly rendered in high relief, usually by embossing, a favorite technique in an age of economic recession, when the maximum effect was sought from thin silver. |
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