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Baroque 1600-1750

Baroque 1600-1750. Marrying grand scale and advanced techniques of Renaissance and the emotion, intensity, and drama of Mannerism Baroque artist built upon Renaissance ideas Sensitivity and mastery of light key elements Used to achieve emotional impact Began in Rome

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Baroque 1600-1750

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  1. Baroque 1600-1750 • Marrying grand scale and advanced techniques of Renaissance and the emotion, intensity, and drama of Mannerism • Baroque artist built upon Renaissance ideas • Sensitivity and mastery of light key elements • Used to achieve emotional impact • Began in Rome • Catholic faith’s triumph after Counter Reformation • Also to attract new followers • Theatricality and movement

  2. Italian Baroque • Emphasis on emotion rather than rationality • Caravaggio 1571-1610 • Bernini 1598-1610 • Borromini 1599-1667

  3. Caravaggio (1571-1610) • Individuals painted as “down and dirty” • Secularized religious art • Saints and miracles painted as ordinary things • Specialized in religious art • Created images from nature

  4. Caravaggio The Conversion of St.Paul (1601)

  5. CaravaggioThe Calling of St. Matthew (1599-1600)

  6. Caravaggio Supper at Emmaus (1601)

  7. CaravaggioJudith Beheading Holofernes (1598-99)

  8. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (1593)

  9. Bernini (1598-1610) • Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, composer, and theater designer. • Wrote comedies and Operas when he was not carving

  10. BerniniDavid(1623-24)

  11. David

  12. BerniniThe Ecstasy of St. Theresa (1645-52)

  13. Borromini (1599-1667) • Did for architecture what Caravaggio did to painting. • Rebellious, emotionally disturbed • died from suicide • Worked under Bernini as a stonecutter

  14. BorrominiSan Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1665-67)

  15. BorrominiSt. Ivo Dome(1642-60)

  16. Flemish Baroque • Rubens (1577-1640) • Van Dyck (1599-1641)

  17. Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) • His was both a painter and a diplomat • Worldly success and personal happiness • outgoing, educated, handsome, well traveled, spoke 6 languages • Produced over 2,000 paintings

  18. RubensThe Descent from the Cross1612

  19. RubensThe Three Graces 1636-38

  20. RubensMarie Arrives at Marseilles1622-25

  21. Rubens Loyola and Catholic Reform 1619

  22. Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) • Child prodigy accomplished painter at 16 • Court painter to Charles I • loved high society • strutted around with a sword • dressed ostentatiously • adopted sunflower as personal symbol • Staged aristocrats in settings with Classical columns • changed the head to body ratio to 1-7 instead of 1-6

  23. Van DyckCharles I at the Hunt1635

  24. Dutch Baroque • Heda • Ruisdael • Hals • Rembrandt • Vermeer

  25. HedaStill Life with Guilt Goblet 1635

  26. Jacob van RuisdaelWindmill at Wijk-bij-Duurstede1665

  27. Frans HalsThe Jolly Toper 1627

  28. Hals The Laughing Cavalier 1624

  29. HalsSaint George Guard Company1627

  30. Rembrandtvan RijnSelf-Portrait1629-30

  31. RembrandtSelf-Portrait1660

  32. RembrandtThe Nightwatch 1642

  33. Johannes VermeerThe Kitchenmaid 1658

  34. English Baroque • Period of upheaval in England • Charles I beheaded • Oliver Cromwell destroyed church art • Parliament seized power • Religious art not allowed in Protestant states • Mythological subjects never caught on

  35. William Hogarth Marriage a la Mode “Breakfast Scene” 1745

  36. HogarthMarriage a la Mode “The Lady’s Death”1743-45

  37. Hogarth The Rake’s Progress The Levee1732-33

  38. GainsboroughMrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan1785

  39. GainsboroughMrs. Siddons 1785

  40. ReynoldsMrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse1783

  41. ReynoldsJane, Countess of Harrington 1777

  42. Sir Christopher Wren St. Paul’s Cathegral, West facade

  43. Spanish Baroque 599-1660 • Velazquez 1599-1660 • 18 a master painter • Only painter for Philip IV • Precursor to Impressionism • Simplicity and earthy

  44. Diego VelazquezLas Meninas 1656

  45. VelazquezPope Innocent X 1650

  46. French Baroque • La Tour • Poussin 1594-1665 • Claude 1600-82

  47. La TourThe Penitent Magdalen 1638-43

  48. Nicolas PoissinBurial of Phocion 1648

  49. Claude Lorrain Landscape with Aeneas at Delos 1672

  50. Le Brun and Hardouin-MansartHall of Mirrors 1680

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