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Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque Art

Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque Art 17 th and Early 18 th Centuries in the West. Europe in the 17 th Century, after the treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended the 30-Year War. Europe’s power, trade, and financial markets are now world wide.

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Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque Art

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  1. Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants: Baroque Art 17th and Early 18th Centuries in the West

  2. Europe in the 17th Century, after the treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ended the 30-Year War. Europe’s power, trade, and financial markets are now world wide.

  3. Latin America, a great source of wealth for Europe, especially Spain, was the main destination of the millions of people enslaved and taken out of Africa between 1500 and 1850. The U.S. received about 523,000 enslaved immigrants. Cuba alone got more. Spanish America absorbed around 1.5 million and Brazil at least 3.5 million. Their descendants form about half of the population in the Caribbean and Brazil – the two historic centers of sugar production.

  4. Bernini was influenced by Hellenistic sculpture like this one, The Dying Gaul, c. 200 BC. (Roman copy), GIANLORENZO BERNINI (Italian, 1598-1680), David, 1623. Marble, approx. 5’ 7” high. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

  5. Diskobolos, 5th c. Roman copy of Greek original Michelangelo, Bound Slave, c. 1513 GIANLORENZO BERNINI (Italian, 1598-1680), David, 1623. Marble, approx. 5’ 7” high. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

  6. DONATELLO, David, 1420s-1450s, bronze, 5’ 2” high. First freestanding nude since antiquity MICHELANGELO, David, 1501–1504. Marble, 13’ 5” high. BERNINI (Italian, 1598-1680), David, 1623. Marble, approx. 5’ 7” high. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

  7. Detail: face of Teresa BERNINI, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy, 1645–1652. Marble, height of group 11’ 6”.

  8. Cornaro family busts in niches on sides, praying devoutly and acting as witnesses to the holy drama.Teresa is experiencing a transfiguring coma, the so-called “Sleep of God,” described by mystics, in which a glimpse of Heaven’s glory is received. Mystics like Teresa would pray for days, often unfed, to achieve such visions.

  9. Theatricality is a hallmark of the Baroque. CARAVAGGIO (Michelangelo Merisi, Italian, 1573-1610), Conversion of Saint Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy, ca. 1601. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ 6” x 5’ 9”. Use of perspective, low horizon line, and tenebrism brings the viewer into the experience.

  10. Detail from The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel, c. 1511 What role does light play in this painting? CARAVAGGIO, Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy, ca. 1597–1601. Oil on canvas, 11’ 1” x 11’ 5”.

  11. “Caravaggista” theatricality, tenebrism and drama Poor restoration has Removed the furrows from the women's foreheads that indicated intense concentration and effort. ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (Italian, 1593-1653), Judith Slaying Holofernes, ca. 1614–1620. Oil on canvas, 6’ 6 1/3” x 5’ 4”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

  12. Compare (left) Gentileschi’sJudith Slaying Holofernes (1614-29) and Caravaggio’sJudith Beheading Holofernes 1598-1599.

  13. PIETRO DA CORTONA (Italian, 1596-1669), Triumph of the Barberini, ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy, 1633–1639.

  14. Know term: genre DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ (Spain, 1599-1660), Water Carrier of Seville, ca. 1619 (The artist was around 20 years old.), Oil on canvas, 3’ 5 1/2” x 2’ 7 1/2”. Wellington Museum, London. Shows influence of Caravaggio.

  15. DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656. Oil on canvas, approx. 10’ 5” x 9’. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

  16. Compare the representation and role of light in Caravaggio and Velazquez. DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656. Oil on canvas, approx. 10’ 5” x 9’. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Is this tenebrism? CARAVAGGIO, Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, Italy, ca. 1597–1601. Oil on canvas, 11’ 1” x 11’ 5”.

  17. Self-portrait of Diego Velázquez – a detail in Las Meninas. He is wearing the cross of the Order of Santiago that he was awarded in 1659. According to legend, the king himself painted the cross.

  18. Ostentation and elaborate spectacle PETER PAUL RUBENS (Flemish, 1577-1640), Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles, 1622–1625. Oil on canvas, approx. 5’ 1” x 3’ 9 1/2”. Louvre, Paris. One of 21 vast canvases for the queen’s new Luxembourg palace in Paris.

  19. REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (Dutch, 1606-1669), The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642. Oil on canvas (cropped from original size), 11’ 11” x 14’ 4”. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

  20. How is light used for psychological purposes? REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Self-Portrait, ca. 1659–1660. Oil on canvas, approx. 3’ 8 3/4” x 3’ 1”. Kenwood House, London.

  21. What formal means does Rembrandt use to focus our attention on the face? Rembrandt, Self Portrait, 1629 (23 years old)

  22. Is this really by Rembrandt? Read “Assessing Authenticity: The Rembrandt Research Project.” Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640, National Gallery, London

  23. How is an etching made and when was the medium invented? What possibilities did it open up for the art market? REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Christ with the Sick around Him, Receiving the Children (Hundred Guilder Print), ca. 1649. Etching, approx. 11” x 1’ 3 1/4”. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

  24. Vermeer’s paintings are intimate in scale JAN VERMEER (Dutch, 1632-1735), Girl With a Pearl Earring, circa 1665-1675, oil on canvas, 17.5 x 15 inches. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Called “the Dutch Mona Lisa.” Vermeer’s famous blue is ultramarine blue made from crushed lapis lazuli.

  25. JAN VERMEER, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664; Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 35.6 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.Protestant piety and prosperity

  26. JAN VERMEER, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, c. 1664-65; Oil on canvas, 18 X 16 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  27. JAN VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670–1675. Oil on canvas, 4’ 4” x 3’ 8”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

  28. JAN VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670–1675. Vermeer’s possible use of the camera obscura First representation of a Camera obscura, 1544

  29. Art in the service of Absolutism: “The Sun King” HYACINTHE RIGAUD (French, 1659-1743) Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on canvas, approx. 9’ 2” x 6’ 3”. Louvre, Paris.

  30. Aerial view of palace at Versailles, France, begun 1669, and a portion of the gardens and surrounding area.

  31. Plan of the park, palace, and town of Versailles, France, (after a seventeenth-century engraving).

  32. JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART and CHARLES LE BRUN, Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, ca. 1680.

  33. Making nature into art – Gardens of Versailles

  34. NICOLAS POUSSIN (French, 1594-1665) Et in Arcadia Ego (Even in Arcadia I am present), ca. 1655. Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 10” x 4’. Louvre, Paris. Classicism aims at “evenness and moderation in all things.” (Poussin)

  35. NICOLAS POUSSIN, Burial of Phocion, 1648. Oil on canvas, approx. 3’ 11” x 5’ 10”. Louvre, Paris. From Plutarch’s Life of Phocion (an Athenian general). A noble landscape for a noble theme – the “Grand manner”

  36. LOUIS LE NAIN (French, ca. 1592-1635), Family of Country People, ca. 1640. Oil on canvas, approx. 3’ 8” x 5’ 2”. Louvre, Paris. Genre scene painted during the 30 years war (1618-1648) between the Hapsburg dynasty, Bourbon dynasty of France, and the Holy Roman Empire. The armies lived off the land and caused much suffering among the people.

  37. JACQUES CALLOT (Duchy of Lorraine, 1592-1635), Hanging Tree, from the Large Miseries of War series, 1633. Etching, 3 3/4” x 7 1/4”. Bibiliothèque Nationale, Paris.

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