Baroque Slides You Must Know Bernini The Baldacchino

Baroque Slides You Must Know

Bernini The Baldacchino 1624 bronze, partly gilt St. Peter’s, Vatican

Bernini Saint Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy 1647 -52 marble Cappella Cornaro, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome This sculpture represents Saint Teresa as she has a vision.

Portal of the Hospicio de San Fernando Perdo de Ribera 1722 Madrid

David Bernini 1623 -1624 marble Bernini’s David is considered an excellent example of Baroque sculpture, because the extremely energized figure of David seems to be about to attack Goliath, thereby drawing the viewer into the action of the “frame. ” Bernini’s David is considered an excellent example of Baroque sculpture, because David’s pose seems to press into the viewer’s space and forces the viewer to be an actual spectator in David battle against Goliath.

Louis XIV 1701 Hyacinthe Rigaud the Sun King, age 63—he succeeded to the crown at age five; he died when he was 77. He was king for seventy-two years. How has power been constructed through this image? Hints: ermine, sword, classical architecture, crwon, fluer-de -lis, gaze of the subject. . . How has the subject’s gender been constructed—emphasized? What seems contradictory to our contemporary eye? Hints: high-heeled shoes, stockings, long luxuriant locks, femininized pose of the lower-half of his body. . .

Palais de Versailles Louis Le Vau Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1668 -85 Andre Le Notre designed the gardens. See the official website: en. chateauversailles. fr

Hall of Mirrors Do you remember the Treaty of Versailles that formally ended WWI? The treaty was signed in this room on 29 June 1919. Think of that moment as the beginning of WWII.

Plan of Palais de Versailles Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1668 -85 Andre Le Notre designed the gardens.

Sick Bacchus Caravaggio 1593 oil on canvas This early work breaks all the rules. Who is Bacchus?

Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio 1594 oil on canvas This early work is a demonstration of virtuosity. What is Caravaggio proving that he can “do” as a painter? What do you notice?

David Caravaggio 1609 -10 oil on canvas The head of Goliath is a self -portrait of Caravaggio.

The Calling of St. Matthew Caravaggio 1599 -1600 oil on canvas Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame George de La Tour c. 1640 oil on canvas

Christ in the Carpenter's Shop George de La Tour 1645 oil on canvas

The Water Seller of Seville Diego Velázquez 1623 oil on canvas

The most important fortress in the southern Netherlands was Breda in Brabant. Velázquez represents Spinola (Philip IV’s Spanish commander) as having dismounted from his horse to meet the Dutch commander, Justinus of Nassau, on equal footing. Instead of accepting the token of surrender, he places a hand on the Dutchman's shoulder, offering a consolation of one soldier to another. The Surrender at Breda (The Lances) Diego Velázquez 1634 -35 oil on canvas

Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV Diego Velázquez 1656 -1657 oil on canvas

The Rokeby Venus or The Toliet of Venus ca. 1650

Jan Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window 1657

Jan Vermeer Woman Holding a Balance c. 1664

Jan Vermeer The Milkmaid ca. 1658

Jan Vermeer A Woman Asleep at Table 1657

Jan Vermeer Girl with Pearl Earring ca. 1665

Jan Vermeer View of Delft 1659 -1660

Jan Vermeer The Little Street 1657 -58

Jan Vermeer The Art of Painting ca. 1665 -1667

Self-Portrait Rembrandt 1659 oil on canvas

Portrait of Saskia with Flower Rembrandt 1641 oil on canvas

Bathsheba at Her Bath Rembrandt 1654 oil on canvas

The Jewish Bride Rembrandt c. 1665 oil on canvas

Rembrandt Self-Portrait 1639

Rembrandt The Sacrifice of Isaac 1655

Baroque Art: Types of Paintings • religious images • portraits • history paintings • still lifes • genre* (scenes from every day life) * Genre painting is a fairly new development at the end of the 16 th century (1580’s).

Religious Images Entombment Caravaggio 1603 -1604 oil on canvas What makes this image a “Baroque” work? • This is an open composition in which elements are seem to move diagonally in space. • Caravaggio has used rich colors and dramatic contrasts of light and dark. • This work demonstrates tenebrism: a technique in which forms emerge from a dark background into a strong light that often falls from a single source outside the painting. • Caravaggio has attempted to depict this scene with as much realism as possible.

Portraits Catharina Hooft and Her Nurse Frans Hals 1620 oil on canvas What makes this portrait a “Baroque” work? • Hals has used a loose, free technique; the viewer can see the evidence of his brushwork—of the movement of the brush as it constructs the image on the twodimensional plane of the canvas. • Hals has used a dramatic contrast of light and dark; the two figures emerge from a dark background into a strong light. • Hals has attempted to portray the two

History Paintings The most important fortress in the southern Netherlands was Breda in Brabant. Velázquez represents Spinola (Philip IV’s Spanish commander) as having dismounted from his horse to meet the Dutch commander, Justinus of Nassau, on equal footing. Instead of accepting the token of surrender, he places a hand on the Dutchman's shoulder, offering a consolation of one soldier to another. The Surrender at Breda (The Lances) Diego Velázquez 1634 -35 oil on canvas

Still Lifes Still Life with Flowers Rachel Ruysch 1716 oil on canvas Nota bene: While the artist is extremely invested in created a naturalistic representation of the flowers, this image was not made from “life”—Ruysch has created a composite of different flowers. She would make sketches of different flowers and fruits and then “assemble” the individual images in one still life. Notice the tulip at the upper center of the image. Tulip mania or tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age—which roughly speaking spanned the 17 th century—during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble. Tulips were imported first from the Ottoman Empire during the reign of our friend Suleyman the Magnificent—remember his tughra?

Genre Woman Holding a Balance Jan Vermeer c. 1664 oil on canvas Vanitas Theme: the transitory nature of life (life is brief); the woman is weighing the value of “something; ” notice the Last Judgment painting behind her? ; notice the light that illuminates her hands and forehead?

Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck 1434 portrait, of course… genre too? even a still life?

Merode Altarpiece Robert Campin 1425 -1428 a religious image of course… portrait of the patrons on the left and even the artist…right? genre as well? even a still life, perhaps?