Baroque art “Misshapen and Ill-formed” ? or Ornate and Exquisite?

Counter Reformation Italy---Spain drama--art as a stage--active lines, diagonal planes Caravaggio St. Peter’s demise --- St. Matthew’s conversion

Bernini St. Teresa in Ecstasy Apollo and Daphne Louis XIV’s bust

Velasquez and El Greco Water Carrier and Maids of Honor the busy surface of Burial of Count Orgaz

ARISTOCRATIC ART Art and Music Academies controlled by the king “Academic” Poussin (from France, but hid in Italy) “Exuberant” Rubens ( from Lowlands but stayed and played in Spain and France ) Rape of the Sabine Women (left) versus Rape of daughters of Luppus (right) formal, balanced versus lush, fleshy and active

Bourgeoisie Stillness Vermeer Rembrandt Notice the light source Art of Painting Dr. Tulip Anatomy Lesson corporation painting Self-portraits, the many faces of

Rococo taking frothy and light to new levels Watteau’s Music party Fragonard’s Swing

Baroque Architecture surface as ornament and sculpture Italian sculptural surface (Borromini) Santiago cathedral, Spain ornate, embellished surface St. Paul’s in London the triumph of Christopher Wren

The Common Man Rules Hogarth---from his oils, created engravings such as Gin Lane, satirizing all levels of society…. On to revolution and the Enlightenment Marriage a la Mode Rake’s Progress

Belvedere--Vienna frilly but flattened, low relief of “style galant” Rococo leads to style galant… the aristocratic approach after 1715 Sans Souci is “carefree” in Germany Chinoiserie reflects the fascination with the unknowns of the East

Women join the ranks of the elite ….salon leaders and academic painters Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun held out for the aristocracy Angelica Kauffmann Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as her Treasures academic painter of neoclassical movement

Vigee-LeBrun, Marie Antoinette and her Children, 1789 in the year of the French Revolution, made Marie Antoinette look motherly. Painted shortly before the queen’s beheading. Child points to an empty cradle.

Neo-Classical Art and Architecture symbolizing strength, balance and order Ancient Rome and Greece serve as models for Democracy How do the Roman ruins of the Forum and Pantheon ( C.E.) compare with Neo-Classical structures of the 1800s? U.S. Treasury, built by our FreeMason Founding Fathers in 1836 Paris’ Pantheon, built in 1789… Rousseau is buried there

Napoleon makes his mark in Paris…. the human hero is God Medieval Notre Dame becomes The Shrine of the Cult of Reason Horses are stolen from Venice to sit atop Napoleon’s Victory Arch (L’Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel, 1806) Napoleon’s Arch looks suspiciously like the Romans’ Arch of Trajan, 114 C.E., don’t you think?

Jacques Louis David ( ) becomes the painter of the French Revolution as well as the Classical Period’s leading academic artist a moralist with a message Heroic, academic, balanced composition Oath of the Horatii, 1784 What “threes” do you see? Lictors Bringing Back to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789 Brutus appears in the shadows... What is David warning about?

DAVID, Death of Marat, 1793 Marat is killed by Charlotte Corday who felt that he was leading the revolution with excessive bloodiness Painting is made in same year that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are guillotined Marat is in a bath due to a crippling skin disease Note that Marat clutches says that Corday is taking Marat’s life due to her suffering Marat becomes instant martyr for the cause—wound is displayed at funeral

Prints of the times…. Hogarth-- Gin Lane Gillray- New Coalition the father of political prints Goya kissing a corpse Hokusai- Great Wave

Sculpture once again becomes a leading art form…. Pompeii is unearthed in 1748 C.E. Statues symbolize the best of Classical art (ancient and Neo-) sturdy, heroic, timeless Canova ( ) creates togas and fig leaves Venus Victorious, 1808 Napoleon, 1802

HOUDON, Ben Franklin, 1779 Houdon was a fellow Freemason, as were Voltaire, Mozart, Haydn, Jefferson and our founding fathers Franklin’s wigless image created a stir in France Voltaire

In the new U.S.A… and Washington gets a toga, too Classical architecture emerges…. the heroic is championed…. Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe, 1770 THE END