Past Event
Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Art & Music of the Baroque: 1600-1700
1008 Wall Street, San Diego, 92037
Art and Music of the Baroque: From Ecstasy to Enlightenment, given by Victoria Martino, who also happens to be an art historian as well as Baroque violinist, will feature the Musica Pro Arte Ensemble, covering the years 1600-1700 in Italy. In the course of a century, a dramatic stylistic metamorphosis took place. New visual and musical ideas, at first stated with objective clarity, were transformed by powerful emotions, sustained through dramatic intentions, and finally executed on a grander and more powerful scale, which eventually was formalized, becoming more dogmatic. The art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Guido Reni and Pietro da Cortona was matched by the music of Claudio Monteverdi, Dario Castello, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and others.