Baroque Painting Artwork Created from 1400 1700 AD

Baroque Painting Artwork Created from 1400 – 1700 AD Theme: • Highly Religious, Biblical Characters and Events. • Many Paintings were Commissioned by the church or wealthy patrons. • Style Characterized by: luxuriant brushwork, rich color, and a mastery of chiaroscuro.

Commissioned Verb: – Give an order for or authorize the production of (something such as a building, piece of equipment, or work of art). – Order or authorize (a person or organization) to do or produce something.

Chiaroscuro Noun: – The treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting. – An effect of contrasted light and shadow created by light falling unevenly or from a particular direction on something. – HIGH CONTRAST

Major Painters Carravagio 1571 - 1610 Italian Painter Rembrandt 1606 -1669 Dutch Painter

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio • Probably the most revolutionary Italian artist of his time • He is considered the first great representative of the Baroque school of art. • Never lacked for commissions or patrons, yet he handled his success poorly. • He abandoned the rules that had guided a century of artists before him. They had idealized the human and religious experience. • He painted the saints and bible figures as normal everyday people. The works caused public outcry, however, because of their realistic and dramatic nature.

Life • Was considered fascinating, rebellious and dangerous. • "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ballcourt (bar) to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him. "

The Conversion of St. Paul

David with the Head of Goliath

Doubting Thomas

Rembrandt • Numerous portraits and self-portraits • Paintings known for being an accurate representation of the personality of the subject. • Painted people the way he saw them and the way he wanted to. Not necessarily how they wanted to be painted. • He was a master of light and shadow making him a giant in the history of art. • When Rembrandt became established as a painter, he began to teach and continued teaching art throughout his life.

The Anatomy Lesson

Descent from the Cross

The Night Watch

Self Portraits

Still Life • Painting or drawing of everyday, ordinary objects.