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. Poussin, Nicolas, The Shepherds of Arcadia Oil on canvas, 33 1/2 x 47 1/2 in

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

6. The Companions of Rinaldo Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594– 1665) Oil on canvas 46 1/2 x 40 1/4 in

7. Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion, 1648

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

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

10. The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek c. 1625

12. Rubens Young Woman Looking Down (Study for the Head of St. Apollonia) (1628)

13. Georges de La Tour French, 1593 - 1652 The Repentant Magdalen, c. 1640 oil on canvas, 113 x 92.7 cm (44 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.)

14. THE MUSIC PARTY Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, b.1617, d.1681) The Netherlands Circa 1675 oil on oak panel 22 7/8 x 18 5/8 in. (58.1 x 47.3 cm)

15. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640 He produced approximately 600 paintings, 300 etchings, and 1,400 drawings.

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

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

18. 60+

19. 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

21. Rembrandt Christ Healing the Sick, c. 1649 etching A tremendous range of work

25. Juno, 1661

26. Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606 - 1669 A Polish Nobleman, 1637 oil on panel, 96.8 x 66 cm (38 1/8 x 26 in.) theatrical, psychological

27. Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch, 1606 - 1669 A Polish Nobleman, 1637 oil on panel, 96.8 x 66 cm (38 1/8 x 26 in.)

29. Rembrandt

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

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

37. Detail, The Allegory

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

39. Vemeer Woman holding a balance 1664

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

41. Still life – painting of inanimate objects

42. Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690

43. PREPARE TO DIE

44. Vanitas Still Life, 1603 Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629) Earliest known vanitas

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46. 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

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