Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants

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Gardners Art Through the Ages,

• Chapter 24
• Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and Merchants
• Baroque Art

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Figure 24-2 CARLO MADERNO, facade of Saint
Peters, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 16061612.
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Figure 24-4 Aerial view of Saint Peters,
Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 15061666.
Figure 24-3 CARLO MADERNO, plan of Saint
Peters, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, with
adjoining piazza designed by GIANLORENZO BERNINI.
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Figure 24-5 GIANLORENZO BERNINI, baldacchino,
Saint Peters, Vatican City, Rome, Italy,
16241633. Gilded bronze, approx. 100 high.
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Figure 24-7 GIANLORENZO BERNINI, David, 1623.
Marble, approx. 5 7 high. Galleria Borghese,
Rome.
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Figure 24-8, 24-9 GIANLORENZO BERNINI, Ecstasy
of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria
della Vittoria, Rome, Italy, 16451652. Marble,
height of group 11 6.
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Figure 24-10 FRANCESCO BORROMINI, facade of San
Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy,
16651676.
Figure 24-11 FRANCESCO BORROMINI, plan of San
Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy,
16381641.
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Figure 24-19 CARAVAGGIO, Calling of Saint
Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei
Francesi, Rome, Italy, ca. 15971601. Oil on
canvas, 11 1 x 11 5.
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Figure 24-21 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Judith
Slaying Holofernes, ca. 16141620. Oil on canvas,
6 6 1/3 x 5 4. Galleria degli Uffizi,
Florence.
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Figure 24-23 ANNIBALE CARRACCI, Loves of the
Gods, ceiling frescoes in the gallery, Palazzo
Farnese, Rome, Italy, 15971601.
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Figure 24-25 PIETRO DA CORTONA, Triumph of the
Barberini, ceiling fresco in the Gran Salone,
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 16331639.
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Figure 24-26 Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Triumph
in the Name of Jesus, 1676-1679, fresco
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Figure 24-31 DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Surrender of
Breda, 16341635. Oil on canvas, 10 1 x 12
1/2. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 24-33 DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Las Meninas (The
Maids of Honor), 1656. Oil on canvas, approx. 10
5 x 9. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 24-34 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Elevation of the
Cross, Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium, 1610.
Oil on panel, 15 1 7/8 x 11 1 1/2 (center
panel), 15' 1 7/8" x 4' 11" (each wing).
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PETER PAUL RUBENS, Henri IV Receives the Portrait
of Marie de Medici (from the Medici Cycle see
figure 24-36 for reference)
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Figure 24-38 ANTHONY VAN DYCK, Charles I
Dismounted, ca. 1635. Oil on canvas, approx 9 x
7. Louvre, Paris.
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Figure 24-41 FRANS HALS, Archers of Saint
Hadrian, ca. 1633. Oil on canvas, approx. 6 9 x
11. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.
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Figure 24-43 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Anatomy Lesson
of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 5 3 3/4 x 7
1 1/4. Mauritshuis, The Hague.
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Figure 24-44 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, The Company of
Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642.
Oil on canvas (cropped from original size), 11
11 x 14 4. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Figure 24-46 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Self-Portrait,
ca. 16591660. Oil on canvas, approx. 3 8 3/4 x
3 1. The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London.
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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Self-Portrait with Sasksia
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Figure 24-48 JUDITH LEYSTER, Self-Portrait, ca.
1630. Oil on canvas, 2 5 3/8 x 2 1 5/8.
National Gallery of Art, Washington (gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss).
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Figure 24-50 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL, View of Haarlem
from the Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670. Oil on
canvas, approx. 1 10 x 2 1. Mauritshuis, The
Hague.
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JAN VERMEER, Woman Holding a Balance (see figures
24-51 and 24-52 for reference)
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RACHEL RUYSCH, Flowers, Fruit and Insects (see
figure 24-56 for reference)
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Figure 24-60 NICOLAS POUSSIN, Et in Arcadia Ego,
ca. 1655. Oil on canvas, approx. 2 10 x 4.
Louvre, Paris.
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Figure 24-66 HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701.
Oil on canvas, approx. 9 2 x 6 3. Louvre,
Paris.
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Figure 24-68 and 24-29 Aerial view of palace of
Versailles and plan of the park, palace and town,
Versailles, France, ca. 1680.
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Figure 24-70 JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART and CHARLES
LE BRUN, Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors),
palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, ca.
1680.
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Figure 24-71 JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART, Royal
Chapel, with ceiling decorations by Antoine
Coypel, palace of Versailles, Versailles, France,
16981710.
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Figure 24-73 INIGO JONES, Banqueting House at
Whitehall, London, England, 16191622.
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Figure 24-74 SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, new Saint
Pauls Cathedral, London, England, 16751710.
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Figure 24-75 JOHN VANBRUGH, Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire, England, 1705-1722.
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Figure 24-76 BALTHASAR NEUMANN, interior of the
pilgrimage chapel of Vierzehnheiligen, near
Staffelstein, Germany, 17431772.
Figure 24-77 Plan of Vierzehnheiligen, near
Staffelstein, Germany.