17TH CENTURY ART IN EUROPET, R, 12-1:20PM

Professor Paige Prater

What IS Baroque?

STYLE featuring:

DramaIntensity of emotion

Extreme skillNaturalism

“If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it.” - Cogsworth

Baroque in Europe

France: resurgence of classicism Monarchy Counter-Reformation Netherlands: portraiture, still life,

landscape, and genre

Counter-Reformation

• St. Ignatius of Loyola – Society of Jesus• Counter-Reformation• Art as propaganda• Art as reinvigorator of belief/practice• Spiritual ecstasy

Sculpture: Bernini

St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1645-1652. Marble, 11’ 6”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcJvjP9zgY&index=8&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6

St. Peter’s Basilica & Piazza, Vatican, Rome

Pope Paul V Borghese (pontificate 1605-1621)Longitudinal nave and new facade

Gianlorenzo Bernini

(1598-1680)

Baldacchino, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome. 1624-1633. Gilt bronze, 100’.

• Cathedra Petri, 1657-1666, gilt bronze, marble, stucco, and glass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmzkN4iqvuk&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=5

Bernini

David. 1623, Marble, 5’ 7”, Galleria Borghese, Rome.

Bernini

Apollo & Daphne, 1622-1625, marble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os&index=6&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6

Galleria Borghese Backyard

Painting: Carracci Brothers

Bolognese painter, Annibale Carracci, Ceiling of Gallery, Palazzo Farnese, Rome. 1597-1601.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR9ad67Ftv0&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=17

Caravaggio

Bacchus, 1595-1596. Oil on canvas, 37” x 33.5”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Caravaggio

The Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, c. 1601. Oil on canvas, 7’ 6” x 5’ 8”

Caravaggio

Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas, 10’ 7.5” x 11’ 2”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZF5K8epWko&index=11&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6

Artemisia Gentileschi

Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1619-20. Oil on canvas, 6’ 63/8” x 5’ 4”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Worked for Bernini, who worshiped at Il Gesu

Illusionistic Baroque ceiling

The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Fall of the Damned, Vault of the church of Il Gesu, Rome, 1672-1685. Fresco with stucco figures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj2el_owSg4&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=24

Spain: Juan Sánchez Cotán

Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c. 1602. Oil on canvas, 27 1/8” x 33 ¼”. San Diego Museum of Art.

Diego Velázquez

Water Carrier of Seville, c. 1619. Oil on canvas, 41 ½” x 31 ½” . Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Diego Velázquez

The Surrender at Breda (The Lances), 1634-1635. Oil on canvas, 10’7/8” x 12’ ½”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Diego Velázquez

Las Meninas, 1656. Oil on canvas, 10’ 5” x 9’ ½”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTtGENiVOA&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=39

Flanders: Peter Paul Rubens

Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt, 1609-1610. Oil on canvas, 5’ 9” x 4’ 5”. Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Peter Paul Rubens

The Raising of the Cross, 1610-1611. Oil on panel, center panel 15’ 1 7/8”x 11’ ½”. Each wing 15’ 1 7/8” x 4’ 11”. Now in Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.

Peter Paul Rubens

The Consequences of War, 1638-1639. Oil on canvas, Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9iMsmhBOjk&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=26

Peter Paul Rubens

Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici, 1621-1625. Oil on canvas, 12’ 11 1/8” x 9’ 8 1/8”. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Genre Painting: Still Life

Clara Peeters, Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels, 1611. Oil on panel, 20 ½” x 28 ¾” Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Genre Painting: Portraits

Joos van Craesbeeck, The Smoker, 17th century, oil on canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Genre Painting: Portraits

Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, c. 1630-1633. Oil on canvas, 30 7/8” x 26”. Staatliche Museen, Berlin.

Genre Painting: Group Portrait

Frans Hals, Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian, c. 1627. Oil on canvas, 6’ x 8’ 8”. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.

Genre Painting: Self-Portrait

Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, 1635. Oil on canvas, 29 3/8” x 25 5/8”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2M4HTw29A&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=48

Rembrandt van Rijn: Self-Portrait (1658)

Oil on canvas, 52 5/8” x 40 7/8”. The Frick Collection, New York.

Rembrandt van Rijn

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 5’ 3 ¾” x 7’ 1 ¼”. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

The Baroque: Rubens vs. Rembrandt

The Baroque: Rubens vs. Rembrandthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4HzOuVQgU4&index=2&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6

Landscape Painting: Johannes Vermeer

View of Delft, 1662. Oil on canvas, 38 ½” x 46 ¼” Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Landscape Painting

Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, c. 1670. Oil on canvas, 22” x 24 ¼”. Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Science• Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

England• Rene Descartes (1596-

1650) France• Logic and scrupulous

objectivity• Johannes Kepler (1571-

1630) -planets rotate in elliptical orbits around sun

• SMALL to VAST studies of space

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Dutch lens maker; inventor of the microscope “wee beasties”

Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, Coral Tree and Eye Spinner, 1719, 11.8” x 15.7”

Rachel Ruysch, Flower Still Life

(after 1700)

Oil on canvas, 30” x 24”. The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.

France

Foreign and civil wars King Henry IV assassinated in 1610; Marie

de’ Medici (queen) rules as regent until 1617 1635: Cardinal Richelieu founds the French

Royal Academy 1648: Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture

Louis XIII dies; 5 year old Louis the XIV (le Roi Soleil) ruled in 1661 after death of Cardinal Mazarin

Louis XIV, ABSOLUTE MONARCH: longest reign in Europe

The Sun King: Louis XIV

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on canvas, 9’ 2” x 7’ 10 ¾”, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Versaille

Hall of Mirrors, begun 1678, approximately 240’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852eroBwDrA

Gardens of Versaille

Bird’s Eye View of the Gardens of Versaille, 19th century.

Nicolas Poussin

Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1640. Oil on canvas, 39 ½” x 53 5/8”. The Art Institute of Chicago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_EFdOjtok&index=29&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6