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Baroque Baroque 1600-1750 France & Holland
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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
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Nicolas Poussin The Holy Family on the Steps 1648 p. 282
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Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655 Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.
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Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus c. 1618 p. 282
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Rubens, Descent from the Cross, 1611-1614
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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640
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Sortie of Capt Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic Guard AKA “The Nightwatch” -“theatrical” lighting - group portrait genre
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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1661 KEY IMAGE p 288
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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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Vermeer - acute observer of life - LIGHT - little known in his time - reputation grows in the 19 th Century - only about 35 works identified
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Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting, c. 1665-70 p. 285
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Detail, The Allegory
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Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658-60 KEY IMAGE p. 286
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Vemeer Woman holding a balance 1664
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Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, c. 1670
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Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690
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PREPARE TO DIE
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Vanitas Still Life, 1603 Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629) Earliest known vanitas
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Still life – painting of inanimate objects
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dates in the Baroque 1742 Handel’s Messiah oratorio c. 1600
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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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