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Art in the Era of Absolutism Baroque Art: 17th Century Art of the Monarchs, late Reformation and Counter Reformation Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than the well-informed Religious in Italy, Spain and France More Secular in the North, England Rococo Art: 1730’s-1770’s Most popular in France and Germany Emphasize grace and gentle movement
Baroque Art 1600 – Implies strangeness, irregularity, & extravagance. The more dramatic, the better Strong diagonals and use of light. Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark. appeal to emotions.
The Conversion of St Paul
Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio 1594
Judith Beheading Holsfernes Caravaggio 1598
Ecstasy of St. Teresa Bernini 1647
Comparing Renaissance and Baroque- Michelangelo’s David and Bernini’s David David Michaelangelo 1504 David Bernini 1623
Dutch Golden Age people are patrons; visual accuracy; studies of light Still Life’s Claesz Heda Heem Landscape Ruisdael Cuyp Genre and Portrait Hals Rembrandt Maes Vermeer Steen
The Nightwatch (detail) Rembrandt 1642
Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials of the Drapers Guild 1662
1660 Self Portraits 1669
The Milkmaid Vermeer 1658
France: Rococo Rococo ornate, shell-like, playful, sinuous; ornate architecture and palaces; monarchy and nobility;
Pilgrimage to Cythera Watteau 1717