Baroque 16001750

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 Cocqs 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
(No Transcript)
13
Vermeer

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

14
Vermeer,The Allegory of Painting,c. 1665-70
p. 285
15
Detail, The Allegory
16
Vermeer,The Milkmaid,c. 1658-60
KEY IMAGE p. 286
17
Vemeer
Woman holding a balance 1664
18
Vermeer,Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid,c.
1670
19
Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690
20
PREPARE TO DIE
21
Vanitas Still Life, 1603Jacques de Gheyn the
Elder (Dutch, 15651629)
Earliest known vanitas
22
Still life painting of inanimate objects
23
dates in the Baroque
c. 1600
Handels Messiah oratorio
1742
24
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