1. Baroque
France & Holland

2. Poussin French, worked in Rome to be among antiquities
a man of the past & future (a Renaissance soul born into a Baroque-era body)
works and writings articulate values of French Academic painting: serious, formal
hated the works of Caravaggio

3. Nicolas Poussin The Holy Family on the Steps 1648

4. Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655 Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.
At the temple in Jerusalem where the old and infirm beg alms, Peter and John cure a cripple (Acts III:1–10): "Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." The composition recalls Raphael, and the gestures of the central group are reminiscent of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel. The picture was painted in 1655 for a Monseur Mercier of Lyons.

5. Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus c. 1618
Favorite of the aristocracy. Commissioned to commemorate france-spain royal marriage
p. 282

6. Rubens, Descent from the Cross, 1611-1614

7. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640

8. “theatrical” lighting group portrait genre
Sortie of Capt Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic Guard
AKA “The Nightwatch”
“theatrical” lighting
group portrait genre

9. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1661
KEY IMAGE p 288

10. 60+

11. Rembrandt begins to use impasto
realistic images need to be viewed from a distance

13. Vermeer acute observer of life LIGHT little known in his time
reputation grows in the 19th Century
only about 35 works identified

14. Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting, c. 1665-70

15. Detail, The Allegory

16. Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658-60
KEY IMAGE p. 286

17. Vemeer
Woman holding a balance
1664

18. Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, c. 1670

19. Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690

20. PREPARE TO DIE

21. Vanitas Still Life, 1603 Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629)
Earliest known vanitas
Vanitas Still Life, 1603
Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629)
Oil on wood; 32 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (82.6 x 54 cm)
Description
De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. He was prominent in intellectual circles at Leiden and The Hague. The Museum's panel is generally regarded as the earliest known vanitas still life in European painting. Images and texts of the period often compare human existence to a bubble, cut flowers, smoke, and other reminders of life's brevity. Fame and wealth share this fate, as is suggested by the Spanish coins (one of which represents the former Habsburg emperor, Charles V, and his mother, Joanna of Aragon and Castile). The laughing and weeping philosophers, Democritus and Heraclitus, reflect upon the vanity of human life, which is symbolized further by objects floating in the bubble, such as a wheel of torture, a leper's rattle, a broken glass, and a flaming heart.

22. Still life – painting of inanimate objects

23. dates in the Baroque
c. 1600
Handel’s Messiah oratorio
1742

24. SUMMARY – BAROQUE ART POLITICS: emergence of The State
ART: light, energy, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal
CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation
ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too
IDEAS: scientific method