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Baroque 1600-1750

Baroque 1600-1750. France & Holland. 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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Baroque 1600-1750

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  1. Baroque1600-1750 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 PoussinThe Holy Family on the Steps1648 p. 282

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

  5. Rubens,The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippusc. 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

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

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

  14. Detail, The Allegory

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

  16. Vemeer Woman holding a balance 1664

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

  18. Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690

  19. PREPARE TO DIE

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

  21. Still life – painting of inanimate objects

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

  23. 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

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