1. What adjectives come to mind when you listen to the music?

2. 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

3. Baroque Art
1600 – 1750.
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.

4. The Conversion of St Paul

6. Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio 1594

8. Judith Beheading Holsfernes Gentilleschi 1598

9. Ecstasy of St. Teresa Bernini 1647

10. Comparing Renaissance and Baroque- Michelangelo’s David and Bernini’s David
David Michaelangelo David Bernini 1623

11. Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez

12. 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

14. The Nightwatch (detail) Rembrandt 1642

15. Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials of the Drapers Guild 1662

16. Franz Hals – Fruit and Vegetable Seller

17. Self Portraits

18. The Milkmaid Vermeer 1658

19. France: Rococo
Rococo ornate, shell-like, playful, sinuous; ornate architecture and palaces; monarchy and nobility;

20. Pilgrimage to Cythera Watteau 1717