Download - Baroque 1600-1750
BaroqueBaroque1600-1750
France & Holland
Poussin
• French, worked in Rome to be among antiquities• a man of the past & future (a Renaissance soul born into a Baroque-era body)• works and writings articulate values of French
Academic painting: serious, formal• hated the works of Caravaggio
Nicolas PoussinThe Holy Family on the Steps1648
p. 282
Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655
Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.
Rubens,The Rape
of the Daughters
of Leucippus
c. 1618
p. 282
Rubens,Descent from the Cross,
1611-1614
Rembrandt,Self-Portrait,
1640
Sortie of Capt Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic GuardAKA “The Nightwatch”
-“theatrical” lighting- group portrait genre
Rembrandt,Self-Portrait,
1661
KEY IMAGE p 288
60+
Rembrandt
- begins to use impasto- realistic images need to be viewed from a distance
Vermeer
- acute observer of life- LIGHT- little known in his time- reputation grows in the 19th Century- only about 35 works identified
Vermeer,The Allegory of Painting,c. 1665-70
p. 285
Detail, The
Allegory
Vermeer,The
Milkmaid,c. 1658-60
KEY IMAGE p. 286
Vemeer
Woman holding a balance1664
Vermeer,Lady Writing a Letter with
her Maid,c. 1670
Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690
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Vanitas Still Life, 1603Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629)
Earliest known vanitas
Still life – painting of inanimate objects
dates in the Baroque
1742 Handel’s Messiah oratorio
c. 1600
SUMMARY – BAROQUE ARTPOLITICS: emergence of The StateART: light, energy, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonalCHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-ReformationROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes tooIDEAS: scientific method