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1 Baroque Baroque 1600-1750 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 p. 282

4 Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655 Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.

5 Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus c. 1618 p. 282

6 Rubens, Descent from the Cross, 1611-1614

7 Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640

8 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 - begins to use impasto - realistic images need to be viewed from a distance

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

14 Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting, c. 1665-70 p. 285

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

22 Still life – painting of inanimate objects

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

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 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


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