Agenda

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Agenda

• February Culture Projects Due NEXT FRIDAY!!
• To get
• Two Pieces of paper
• If it aint BaroqueReading
• To do
• Opener
• Lecture w/ short Bernini video
• Questions and reading
• Look at test results

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Opener on your own paper

• Compare and contrast the Baroque painting by
  Caravaggio and the Renaissance painting by Jan
  van Eyck. How are the two different? How are
  they alike?
• (Focus on the body positions of the people and
  the subject matter. What is different about the
  background, middle ground and foreground of the
  two paintings?)

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Caravaggio Jan van Eyck
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Baroque

• 1600-1750
• contrast of light, action, drama and extravagant
  style
• Dramatic lighting
• Influences
• counter-reformation/absolute monarchy
• Built on/improved ideas/techniques of Renaissance

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• Baroque
• - Portuguese word imperfect pearl
• (crawford and jewel pics)
• Chiaroscuro
• main Baroque technique
• - contrast between light and dark.
• Tenebrism
• - Italian for "murky
• -figures emerge from the dark

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• Counter-Reformation
• Response of Catholic Church to Protestant
  Reformation
• Absolutism
• monarchy with supreme political power
  controls every aspect of life
• Catholic Emotionalism
• - Intense religiosity that influenced Baroque
  art work

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Caravaggio

• 1573-1610
• Italian painter
• abandoned Renaissance rules of art
• did not idealize human/religious experience
• Religious figures portrayed as regular people
• imprisoned for assault and killing a tennis
  opponent-spent rest of life avoiding authorities
• Biblical scenes
• Calling of St.Matthew
• Conversion of St. Paul

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Calling of St. Matthew
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Conversion of St. PaulMost famous of his works
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The Conversion of St. Paul

• Religious art was secularized
• Saints and miracles appeared to be ordinary
  events
• down and dirty style
• St Paul is on the ground, and you see the horses
  rear
• The audience is brought into the action through
  the use of chiaroscuro and perspective.

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Gentileschi

• 1593 1652
• female painter
• Influenced by Caravaggio
• Raped at 19 by art student/teacher
• painted women getting revenge against men
• Judith Slaying Holofernes

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Judith Slaying Holofernes
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Italian Baroque Art/Architecture

• Gianlorenzo Bernini
• -1598-1680
• -sculpture/architect
• -last of great artists to work for the popes
• -St. Peters Piazza
• -David
• -Ecstasy of St. Teresa
• -Cornaro Chapel

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St. Peters Piazza
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David
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Ecstasy of St. Teresa
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Cornaro Chapel
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Bernini Video Intro
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If it aint Baroque a Students perspective on
Baroque and its musical greats article

• How is the Baroque period like a teenager?
• What was the time span of the Baroque period?
• What four factors contributed to the development
  of Baroque Music?
• How did the author use Cindy Crawford as a simile
  to Baroque?
• Describe the following analogy given for the 3
  qualities of Baroque music
• a. Sharp contrast manic depression
• b. Ornamental toppings banana split
• c. Improvisation spontaneous combustion
• Describe the contributions of the following
  people to the world during the Baroque period
• a. Vivaldi
• b. Bach
• c. Handel

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Agenda

• February Culture Projects Due Thursday (A2) and
  Friday (B4)
• To get
• St. Teresa Reading
• Bernini Video Question Sheet do your opener on
  the back!
• To do
• Opener St. T Reading w/ questions
• Continue Lecture Rembrandt/Ryusch/Vermeer
• Bernini Video Questions

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St. Teresa Reading

• Short Video After Opener
• 1. Describe the angel in St. Teresas diary.
• 2. What was he on fire with?
• 3. What sort of pain was she experiencing?
• 4. After this experience St. Teresa says that the
  soul is not content with what?

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Rembrandt van Rijn

• 1606-1669
• From Amsterdam/Netherlands
• Mastered all popular subjects
• Religious/historical themes from Italy
• Daily life/people from Holland

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• Painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th
  century the greatest artist of the Dutch school
• luxurious brushwork, rich color, and a mastery of
  chiaroscuro (the use of light and shadow).
• His drawings constitute a vivid record of
  contemporary Amsterdam.
• influenced by the work of Caravaggio

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Rembrandt

• If he had no model, he painted or sketched
  himself. He painted between 50 to 60
  self-portraits.
• In 1636 Rembrandt began to depict quieter, more
  contemplative scenes with a new warmth in color.
• During the next few years three of his four
  children died in infancy, and in 1642 his wife
  died.
• In the 1630s and 1640s he made many landscape
  drawings and etchings.
• His landscape paintings are imaginative, rich
  portrayals of the land around him.

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Self -Portraits
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Rembrandt

• Rembrandt was at his most inventive in this work,
  popularly known as The Night Watch, 1642.
• Each man is painted with the care that Rembrandt
  gave to single portraits, yet the composition is
  such that the separate figures are second in
  interest to the effect of the whole.

The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq
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• The Mill (1650)

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Rembrandt

• The Return of the Prodigal Son (ca. 1662)

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Christ Healing the Sick etching
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Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulip
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Rachel Ruysch

• 1664-1750
• Dutch
• paintings for domestic interiors
• Sold at craft markets
• Flowers in a Vase
• (Why would Protestant artists paint still-lifes
  and landscape pictures?)

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Flowers ina Vase
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Johannes Vermeer

• 1632-1675
• Dutch
• Genre scenes
• Master of light and color
• Allegory of Painting
• The Milkmaid

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Allegory of Painting
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TheMilkmaid
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What about the English?

• Best known in poetry and writing
• John Donne
• John Milton
• John Locke
• -social contract
• -give up some freedoms for greater good
• -liberalism
• -personal freedoms are most important

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Continue VideoBernini

• Be sure to answer the questions on the sheet
  provided.
• Your opener should be on the back.
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5

• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9

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Bernini Questions(copy and leave room for your
answer 40 points)

• While watching Simon Schamas The Power of Art
  Bernini, answer the following questions
• 1) Describe the early life of Bernini. Was he
  talented from the very beginning? Who pushed him
  to do art work? Who did he impress?
• 2) Berninis sculptures are known for showing
  what?
• 3) In one sculpture, Bernini shows a character
  suffering extreme pain. How did he inspire
  himself to create this sculpture?
• 4) Describe Berninis Apollo and Dauphine.
• 5) What is Berninis relationship to Rome?
• 6) Why was Berninis bust of Constance
  revolutionary? What made it unique from previous
  busts?
• 7) What happened to Constance? Why?
• 8) What design was Berninis downfall? Why was it
  a failure?
• 9) What piece of work revitalized Berninis
  career?
• 10) Describe this piece.