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Baroque Art Summary

Baroque Art Summary. 1600 - 1700. Baroque Summary (1600s). Religious and political conflict around Europe (Thirty Years’ War); Catholic Church responding to growth of Protestantism with Counter – Reformation.

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Baroque Art Summary

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  1. Baroque Art Summary 1600 - 1700

  2. Baroque Summary (1600s) • Religious and political conflict around Europe (Thirty Years’ War); Catholic Church responding to growth of Protestantism with Counter – Reformation. • Catholic Church hiring best artists and architects to create “must-see attractions” that will inspire the faithful • Italy, Spain, and Flanders (aka Spanish Netherlands) remained Catholic. • Dutch Netherlands won its independence from Spain and was formally recognized by the Peace of Westphalia 1648 as the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The Dutch were Calvinists ( a type of Protestantism)

  3. Catholic (Italy, Spain, Flanders, France) Scenes of saints and famous events from the Bible and Apocrypha (Judith Beheading Holofernes) Portraits of kings, nobles, and popes Spectacular architecture with amazing ceiling frescoes of religious stories Protestant (Dutch Netherlands) GENRE SCENES of everyday life (middle-class), VANITAS STILL-LIFES – religious meaning, landscapes of Netherlands Portraits of middle-class Art is meant for the Dutch home or public buildings Plain churches – art should not be in churches where it will distract the faithful; it would be like creating idols Baroque Differences

  4. Great Baroque Artists – Catholic Countries • Caravaggio (big influence on Velazquez, Rubens in Flanders, Rembrandt in Holland), Gentileschi, Bernini, Borromini, Caracci, Fra Andrea Pozzo – Italy • Velazquez, Zubaran, Ribera – Spain, portraits of royal court and very religious paintings (saints, martyrs) • Peter Paul Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck – Flanders – Rubens (everything – portraits, mythology, religious), Van Dyck – royal portraits for King of England • Poussin, Lorraine, Le Nain in France

  5. Dutch Baroque • Rembrandt (portraits, group portraits, self-portraits, biblical scenes, etching) • Vermeer (quiet domestic scenes of young women) • Frans Hals and Judith Leyster (portraits, group portraits) • Steen (genre paintings) • Van Ruisdael (landscapes) • Steenwyck, Heda (vanitas still-life)

  6. The Death of the VirginCaravaggio

  7. Judith Beheading Holofernes (1611-12)Artemesia Gentileschi

  8. Self-portrait Artemesia Gentileschi

  9. Apollo and DaphneBernini

  10. DavidBernini

  11. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

  12. Throne of St. Peter (Cathedra Petri)

  13. Borromini, San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane

  14. Dome of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (This is not a distortion.)

  15. Fra Andrea Pozzo’s Glorification of Saint Ignatius

  16. Loves of the Gods – Annibale Caracci

  17. The Waterseller of SevilleVelazquez

  18. His First painting of Philip IV

  19. Surrender of Breda (Las Lances)

  20. Juan de Pareja

  21. Harmen Steenwyck The Vanities of Human Life

  22. View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds

  23. Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almshouse

  24. Self-portrait Leaning on a Sill, 1640

  25. Self-portrait Leaning on a Stone Sill, 1639

  26. The Milkmaid

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