1. Baroque Art and Architecture
The art of Absolute Monarchs, Constitutional Monarchies and the Dutch Renaissance
Use of light
Monarchs showing power
Cath/protestant baroque
Use of art in counter/cath reformation
Blue light/ puffy clouds floaty angels

2. Baroque
1600 – 1750.
From a Portuguese word “barocca”, meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”
Implies strangeness, irregularity, and extravagance.
The more dramatic, the better!

3. Baroque Style of Art & Architecture
Dramatic, emotional.
Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.
Counter-Reformation art.
Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than to the well-informed.
Ecclesiastical art --> appeal to emotions.
Holland --> Real people portrayed as the primary subjects.

4. Absolute Monarchs tried to show their wealth and power through their portraits--Louis XIV and Charles I
Use of light
Monarchs showing power
Cath/protestant baroque
Use of art in counter/cath reformation

5. Baroque artists used new techniques to make their paintings more realistic
Chiaroscuro means “light and shadow”
A light source from one side of the painting throws parts of the work into shadow while highlighting other parts
Masters of chiaroscuro include Caravaggio of Italy, Georges de la Tour of France and Rembrandt van Rijn of the Netherlands

6. Caravaggio’s The Supper at Emmaus

7. A good example of Chiaroscuro

8. Georges de la Tour liked to use one candle as his light source
Georges de la Tour liked to use one candle as his light source. What do you think the skull, candle and mirror symbolize?
‘master of the candle”
Jesus and joseph
Mary magdalene
Symbol light of life
Mirror is vanity

9. Catholic Baroque Painters
The wealth and power of their patrons was shown by concentrating on their sumptuous clothing, gold and silver ornaments, lace and furs.
Parties of the rich and famous were often subjects of artwork, as well as their palaces and beautiful gardens
The discovery of new pigments such as lapis blue and techniques such as using touches of pure white to simulate the glint of glassware or the translucency of lace were often used.
Floating baby angels or spirits are often seen in bright blue skies full of puffy white clouds.

10. Peter Paul Rubens
Elizabethan collar

12. Claude Lorrain– The Village Fete
Village party
Wealthy and peasants together
Secular
Divide /juxtaposition of rich/poor

13. Rubens’ Samson and Delilah
Cutting his hair

14. Baroque paintings were often extremely violent, such as Judith and Holofernes by Artemesia Gentileschi

15. Protestant Baroque Painters
Showed the wealth of their patrons in less ostentatious ways
Painted scenes of middle class people working or interacting at home
Rembrandt
Vermeer
Hals

16. Rembrandt van Rijn The Night Watch
Youtube – recreation of nightwatch

17. Rembrandt did many self-portraits

18. Rembrandt was influenced by Orientalism and often used his neighbors in the Jewish Quarter of Amsterdam as models.

19. Johannes Vermeer painted people at home and work.
Painted a lot in own house
Right one has anachronisms photoshopped in
Used camera obscura

20. The Girl With the Pearl Earring
Based on a book by chevalier

21. More Vermeers

22. Frans Hals About to burst out laughing People often had bad teeth
Considered improper to laugh in public

23. Dutch Still Lifes Still lifes unique to netherlands in this time
Secular
Reflects protestant value of plain ness
Often contrasted life/dead

24. Flemish Painter Anthony Van Dyck painted for the royal houses of Stuart and Orange

25. Late Baroque Style is called “Rococo” and is very gaudy— Watteau and Fragonard

27. Baroque Architecture
Centers attention around king

28. The Hall of Mirrors and the Chapel

29. The Gardens of Versailles

30. A Small Drawing Room

31. Marie Antoinette’s Little Farm– built in the 18th century– reflected the wish to get back to nature and folk ways