chapter 10 - humanities
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Gianlorenzo Bernini. Altar canopy (baldacchino) of St. Peter’s, Rome. 1624–33.Gilt bronze. Height approx. 100' (30.5 m).
AKG-images/A.F. Kersting. [Fig. 10-1]
Gianlorenzo Bernini. David. 1623–1624.Marble. Height 5' 6-1∕4" (1.68 m).
Borghese Gallery, Rome.Scala, Florence - courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali. [Fig. 10-2]
Gianlorenzo Bernini. Ecstasy of St. Teresa. 1645–1652.Marble and gilt bronze. Life-size.
Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.Scala, Florence/Fondo Edifici di Culto - Min. dell'Interno [Fig. 10-3]
Gianlorenzo Bernini. Cornaro Chapel.Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1640s.
© Vincenzo Pirozzi, Rome. [Fig. 10-4]
St. Peter’s, Rome, aerial view. Nave and façade by Carlo Maderno. 1606–12.Piazza, colonnades designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini. 1656–1663.
Height of façade 147' (44.8 m), width 374' (114 m).© Alinari Archives/CORBIS. [Fig. 10-5]
Francesco Borromini. Interior of dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome. c. 1638.Width approx. 52' (15.8 m).
© Angelo Hornak/Corbis. [Fig. 10-8]
Caravaggio. The Calling of St. Matthew. c. 1597–1598.Oil on canvas. 11' 1" × 11' 5" (3.38 × 3.48 m).
Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. Scala, Florence. [Fig. 10-9]
Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Slaying Holofernes. c. 1620.Oil on canvas. 6' 6-1∕3" × 5' 4" (1.99 × 1.63 m).
Uffizi, Florence. Scala, Florence. [Fig. 10-10]
L. O. Burnacini. Opera on the Cortina, Vienna. 1665–1666.Engraving.
Historisches Museum der Stadt, Vienna. [Fig. 10-11]
Juan Batista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera. Escorial Palace, near Madrid, Spain. 1553–84.Engraving.
Louvre, Paris. RMN. [Fig. 10-12]
Diego Vel.zquez. The Triumph of Bacchus (Los Borrachos). 1629.65" × 88-1∕2" (1.65 × 2.25 m).
Prado, Madrid. © The Gallery Collection/Corbis. [Fig. 10-14]
Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor). 1656.Oil on canvas. 10' 5-1∕4" × 9' 3∕4" (3.18 × 2.76 m).
Prado, Madrid. © The Gallery Collection/Corbis. [Fig. 10-15]
Don Quixote attacking the windmills, from Cervantes’s Don Quixote. 1863 edition. Hachette, Paris. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Private Collection, L/L. [Fig. 10-16]
Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Garden façade. Palace of Versailles, France. 1669–1685.
© Douglas Schwartz/Corbis. [Fig. 10-17]
Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Lebrun. Hall of Mirrors.Palace of Versailles, France. Begun 1676.
Length 240' (73.2 m), width 34' (10.36 m). © Massimo Listri/Corbis. [Fig. 10-18]
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) as Sganarelle in The Doctor in Spite of Himself. Engraving.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Private Collection, L/L. [Fig. 10-19]
Jean-Baptiste Lully. Performance of the opera Armide. 1686.Engraving.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. [Fig. 10-20]
Peter Paul Rubens. Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus. c. 1618.Oil on canvas. 7' 3" × 6' 10" (2.21 × 2.08 m).
Alte Pinakothek, Munich. © Gallery Collection/Corbis. [Fig. 10-21]
Peter Paul Rubens. The Garden of Love. c. 1638.Oil on canvas. 6' 6" × 9' 3-1∕2" (1.98 × 2.83 m).
Prado, Madrid. AKG-images/Erich Lessing. [Fig. 10-22]
Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with St. John on Patmos. 1640.Oil on canvas. 40" × 53-1∕2" (101.8 × 136.3 cm).
Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection, 1930.500.Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago. [Fig. 10-23]
Rachel Ruysch. Flowers in a Vase. 1698.Oil on canvas. 23" × 17-1∕2" (58.5 × 44.5 cm).
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. © ARTOTHEK. [Fig. 10-25]
Johannes Vermeer. The Allegory of Painting. c.1665–1670.Oil on canvas. 4' 3∕18" × 3' 7-1∕4" (1.30 × 1.10 m).
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. © Francis G. Mayer/CORBIS. [Fig. 10-26]
Johannes Vermeer. The Milkmaid. c. 1658–1660.Oil on canvas. 17-7∕8 × 16-1∕8" (45.5 × 41 cm).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 10-27]
Rembrandt van Rijn. Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic Guard (The Night Watch). 1642.
Oil on canvas. 11' 9-1∕2" × 14' 4-1∕2" (3.59 × 4.38 m).Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. [Fig. 10-28]
Rembrandt van Rijn. Christ Healing the Sick (Hundred Guilder Print). c. 1649.Etching. 10-7∕8" × 15-3∕8" (28 × 39 cm).
British Museum, London. Yale University Art Gallery. [Fig. 10-29]
Rembrandt van Rijn. Self-portrait. c. 1665.Oil on canvas. 45" × 37-1∕2" (114 × 94 cm).
The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London.© English Heritage Photo Library / The Bridgeman Art Library. [Fig. 10-30]
Anthony van Dyck. Charles I of England. c. 1635.Oil on canvas. 8' 8-3∕4" × 6' 9-1∕2" (2.66 × 2.07 m).
Louvre, Paris. The Art Archive/Alfredo Dagli Orti. [Fig. 10-31]
Christopher Wren. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. 1675–1710.Length 514' (156.7 m), width of façade 250' (76.2 m), height of dome 366' (111.6 m).
Bridgeman Art Library, London. [Fig. 10-32]