Agenda

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Agenda

• To Do
• Opener you will need half sheet of paper
• Louis the XIV and Ballet
• Spanish Baroque Visual Art
• Architecture Reading
• Exit Slip Questions use your notes!
• A4 sit where the chairs are arranged.
• Dont move them! I want you spaced out.

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Opener Part 1 Baroque Music(on your own paper,
leave in your opener section)

• Identify the name and composer of each song
• 1.)
• 2.)
• 3.)

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Opener Part II

• 4. Name the piece and the artist who sculpted it.

• 5. Name the piece and the artist who sculpted it.

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• 6. Name the piece and the artist who painted it.

• 7. Name the piece and the artist who painted it.

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• 8. Name the piece and the artist who painted it.
  What is significant about this artist?

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Ballet Louis XIV the Sun King

• development during
• the Baroque Period

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Ballet

• Is a play in dance form in which music also plays
  a major part in telling a story or conveying a
  mood.
• Western ballet as we know it today first appeared
  in Renaissance Italy, where it was used as
  entertainment for the royalty in between opera
  acts.

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Ballet

• Catherine de' Medici took it to France in the
  form of a show combining singing, dancing, and
  declamation.
• During the 18th century there were major
  developments in technique and ballet gradually
  became divorced from opera, emerging as an art
  form in its own right.

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History

• The first important dramatic ballet was produced
  in 1581.
• It was performed by male courtiers (members of
  the court), with ladies of the court forming the
  corps de ballet (group of dancers who are not
  soloists).

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History

• In 1661 Louis XIV founded the Académie Royale de
  Danse. All subsequent ballet activities
  throughout the world can be traced to this
  academy.

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History

• The dancers wore long, flowing court dresses
  until the 1720s when the first great ballerina
  shortened her skirt to reveal her ankles,
  allowing greater movement.

During the 18th century ballet spread to
virtually every major capital in Europe.
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Louis XIV the Sun King

• Louis XIV was born in 1638. He was only five
  when he became king on the death of his father,
  Louis XIII. His mother held the regency while he
  grew up.

Louis XIV at ten years of age
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Louis and Ballet

• The young king made his ballet debut as a boy,
  but it was in 1653 that he accomplished his most
  memorable feat as a dancer.
• He performed Le Ballet de la Nuit and for his
  final piece he appeared as Apollo. Wearing a
  fancy kilt of golden rays he came to be known as
  the Sun King.

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Louis and Ballet

• Pierre Beauchamps, one of the most famous
  "fathers" of ballet, was "superintendent of the
  king's ballets.

He has been given credit for standardizing the
five foot positions of ballet, (first through
fifth positions). DO THEM! AGAIN!
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Louis and Ballet

• The ballet master he imported from Italy was
  Giovanni Baptista Lulli, who was rechristened
  Jean Baptiste Lully

In 1661 Louis established the Académie Royale de
Danse in a room of the Louvre.
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Louis and Ballet

• In 1669 Louis XIV established the Académie Royale
  de Musique for Lully to run.
• In 1670 once he was past his physical prime, the
  king retired from dancing, allowing other, better
  dancers to take lead roles.

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Lullys Ballet
In 1672 Lully established a dance academy within
the Académie Royale de Musique. This dance
company survives today as the ballet of the Paris
Opera
- the world's oldest continuously running ballet
company.
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Lullys Ballet

• Lully's seriousness towards the study of dance
  led to the development of professional dancers as
  opposed to courtiers who could dance.

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Lullys Ballet

• In 1687 Lully died from an injury he received by
  accidentally stabbing his foot with his time
  marking stick.
• At this time, ballet was normally performed in
  the same productions as opera, a theatrical form
  known as opéra-ballet.

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Choreography
In 1700 Choréographie, ou l'art de décrire la
danse (Choreography, or the Art of Writing Dance)
was published by Raoul Auger Feuillet. In this
book he attempted to create a dance notation
similar to music. Although this notation was
never finalized and standardized, it is the
system that is still in use today as no other
system has been developed.
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Choreography

• The word choréographie gives us the English word
  choreography and is derived from the greek
  khorea, (to dance), and graphein, (to write).

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• Academies
• -state-sponsored schools
• -trained artists and performers
• -set standards of taste
• -based on Platos academy
• -imposed conservative rules on the arts

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Theater

• Controlled by academy
• 5 acts
• Obey unity of time/place
• Uplifting moral
• Jean Racine
• Moliere
• Tartuffe

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Spanish Baroque Visual Art
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El Greco The Greek

• 1541-1614
• painter
• Domenikos Theotocopoulos
• Trained in Venice, Italy
• Applied Renaissance technique to intense
  religiosity
• The Burial of Count Orgaz

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The Burial of Count Orgaz
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Diego Velazquez

• 1599-1660
• Master painter at age 18
• realism through bold color/brushwork
• Painted images directly, no outlines
• Only well-known Spanish Baroque artist
• Las Meninas (Maids of Honor)
• Triangular composition
• Use of light

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Las Meninas
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Baroque Architecture Reading
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Review/Exit Slip

1. Under Louis the XIV, who developed a school for
   the arts such as dance and drama?
2. Which palace of Louis the XIV is now the most
   famous museum in the world?
3. St. Pauls Cathedral, in London, is a mix of what
   three architecture styles?
4. In what country is the Palace of Versailles
   located?
5. What did the ground plan of Escorial Palace, in
   Spain, represent?
6. In what country did ballet first appear?

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• Beginning of Neoclassical Art
• -rules for art
• -based on classical forms
• -1600 to 1700s
• -France and England

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Jean Racine

• -1639-1699
• -tragedy
• -rhymed verse
• -stories from Greek tragedy
• -criticized for being too realistic

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Moliere Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

• -1622-1673
• -comedy
• -used wit to attack hypocrisy/vice of French
  society
• -performed at the Louvre and Versailles
• -Tartuffe
• -story of a religious hypocrite