Baroque Art

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Baroque Art

• Late 1600s to Early 1700s in Europe and Italy

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Counter Reformation

• Effort by the Catholic Church to lure people back
  and regain their power
• Art played a major role
• A new style emerged with dramatic flair and
  dynamic movement

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Baroque Art

• Style characterized by movement, vivid contrast
  and emotional intensity
• Elaborate figures and colored marble was seen in
  art

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Gianlorenzo Bernini1598-1680

• David
• Theme is movement
• Twisting body, preparing to hurl a stone at
  Goliath
• Dramatic action suggests that Goliath is in front
  of David

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David
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The Three Davids
Donatello
Bernini
Michelangelo
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St. Peters Collonade

• It was Bernini who was commissioned to created
  St. Peters Collonade. It is said that Bernini
  intended the colonnade to symbolize the arms of
  the Church, reaching out to embrace the world In
  the view shown here, one can see, looking from
  colonnade down into the city

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Peter Paul Rubens1577-1640

• Most completely captured the dynamic spirit of
  the Baroque style

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Peter Paul RubensDaniel in the Lions Den. 1613.
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Dutch Art

• 1648- Treaty with Spain divided low countries
  into two parts
• Flanders in South (Catholic and Spain territory)
• Holland in North (Protestant and independent from
  Spain)
• The Baroque style was limited to Catholic-
  Counter Reformation

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Dutch Genre

• Artwork portrayed homes and profitable businesses
• People, places, city squares and streets, country
  sides and the sea
• Genre- scenes from daily life

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Rembrandt van Rijn1606-1669

• Greatest Dutch painter of his era

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The Night Watch
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The Night Watch

• Originally titled-The Company of Captain Frans
  Banning Cocq
• Officer in charge giving instruction
• light in centered on major figures
• Rembrandt skills- light for dramatic events
• Frozen time period

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Jan Vermeer1632-1675

• All but forgotten
• Fewer than 40 paintings exist
• He is best known as a painter of interiors
• Vermeer was a painter of light. In his study of
  optics he undoubtedly used a camera obscura, or
  darkened chamber, the ancestor of the modern
  photographic camera. This scientific device
  employed an adjustable lens and mirrors to
  capture reflected light and project the scene
  onto a viewing screen in its lid.
• Vermeer analyzed the resulting images carefully
  because they duplicate the selective focus of the
  human eye. Only objects at a certain distance
  from the camera or the eye are in sharp focus.
  This is exactly the optical effect Vermeer has
  generated here. Precise white highlights glisten
  from the writing box, pearl earrings, satin hair
  ribbons, and the chairs brass tacksall of which
  lie equally in the middle distance. The near
  tablecloth is purposely blurred, and the painting
  on the far wall is hazy. This is just as they
  would look to someone concentrating specifically
  on the woman. Because she directly faces the
  viewer with an open gaze, the painting may be a
  portrait.

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Jan Vermeer 1632-1675
Woman Holding a Balance
The Girl with the Red Hat
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Jan Vermeer1632-1675
A Lady Writing, c. 1665oil on canvas, 45 x 39.9
cm (17 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
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Jan Vermeer. Girl With the Pearl Earring.