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Baroque Flashcards

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Martin Luther

Protestant reformation - called out Catholic church for corrupted practices and excesses of luxury.

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Baroque

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Means “mis-shapen”

  1. Theatrical, dramatic art that provokes viewer to feel engaged
  2. Tenebrism
  3. Ordinary people / plebian

Carvaggio
Rich golds, blues, reds
Tenebroso
Diagonal compositions

Caracci
Idealic
Tranquil

1600-1700

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Bernini

Mostly sculpting
Epitomized baroque

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interior of the Cornaro Chapel
The extasy of St. Teresa

Bernini

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy

contains sculpted portraits of Cornaro family
St. Teresa and an angel
Bernini able to communicate multiple textures through marble.
Rays of bronze
Yellow window above featured sculpture illuminates and creates drama, aura

The passionate drama of Bernini’s depiction of Saint Teresa correlated with the ideas of Ignatius Loyola, who argued that the re-creation of spiritual experience would do much to increase devotion and piety.

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Loves of the Gods
Annibale Carracci
ceiling frescoes in the gallery
Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy

Done for occasion of a marriage.
Reminiscent of muscular bodies of Mchelangelo’s Sistine ceiling.
Mimic easle paintings - quadro riportato.

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Quadro Riportato

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A ceiling design in which painted scenes are arranged in panels that resem- ble framed pictures transferred to the surface of a shallow, curved vault.

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Annibale Carracci
Loves of the Gods
ceiling frescoes in the gallery Palazzo Farnese
Rome, Italy

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Medusa
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Italian

Crazy guy
Bitter

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Caravaggio
The Entombment
from the Chapel of Pietro Vittrice, Santa Maria
Vallicella, Rome, Italy
Oil on canvas

Altarpiece - viewer becomes positioned in grave.
Complicated composition organized on a diagonal
Blackened background - high contrast - tenebrism
Part of the counter-reformation movement

Creates element of real humanity, which encourages connection and empathy in viewer.

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Caravaggio Boy

Popular androgynous portrait commissions

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Tenebroso / tenebrism

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When shadows create intensity, contrast, and depth.

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Artemesia Gentileschi self portrait
Caravaggisti - Follower of Caravaggio
Protofeminist

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Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Slaying Holofernes

Influenced by Caravaggio / Caravagistic
Tenebrism

Shows strong, powerful women

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Treaty of Westphalia

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Granted religious freedom in Western Europe
Lead to restructuring of political systems
Separation of Catholicism and Protestantism is reflected in art

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Peter Paul Rubens
Elevation of the Cross
from Saint Walburga, Antwerp

Catholic scene
Rubens believed that classical influences should be studies, but the appearance of stone should be avoided
Twisting, muscular bodies reminiscent to Sistine ceiling
Diagonal similar to Caravaggio

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Peter Paul Rubens
Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles

Medici descendant, married into Royalty
Commissioned to glorify her arrival in France

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Rubenesque

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suggestive of the painter Rubens or his works; especially : plump or rounded usually in a pleasing or attractive way

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Annibale Carracci
Flight into Egypt
Oil on canvas

Idealistic
Renaissance style
Atmospheric perspective
Zig-zags of the landscape

Venetian Renaissance landscape artists depicted Architectural structures that captured idealized antiquity and the idyllic life

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Counter reformation

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Sense that art is meant to teach and create effect through emotional connection.

Hope to restore Catholicism.

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Caravaggio
Conversion of Saint Paul

Saul is on his way to collect Christian prisoners, blinded by light of God, and is converted.

Viewer invited in due to composition, lighting, similar class to viewer.

Secondary figure defines primary figure.

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Caravaggio
Death of Mary

Theatrical scene with curtain
Mary has dirty feet, bloated, encourages connection to viewer because she is a real person.

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Bernini
David

Torsion / winding up
Tense moment
May be self-portrait of Bernini

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Gezellig

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Dutch: togetherness, coziness, friendship.

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Frans Hals self-portrait

captures spontenaity

painterly

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Painterly

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marked by an openness of form which is not linear and in which sharp outlines are lacking

artistic

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Archers of Saint Hadrian
Frans Hals
Dutch

Individualized portraits
Momentary glimpse into meeting - candid poses and composition

Some diagonals in staffs and clusters

Deep golds and dark greys/blacks influenced by Italian Gothic

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The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem
Frans Hals
Dutch

Diagonal in alignment of hands and heads
Painterly

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Characteristics of Dutch Baroque

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  1. Composition - dynamic through diagonals, twists and turns, artfully arranged
  2. Contemporary costumes that are dramatic with sense of movement, texture, and saturation
  3. Element of time - a momentary, almost photographic spontenaity
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Rembrandt
Dutch

Printmaker, painter, engraver

Introspective
Captured moods and emotion
Honest regarding his anxiety and poverty

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Dutch power

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Middle class became very wealthy because of the amount of importing and exporting

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Still Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar
Willem Kalf
Dutch materialism
Infatuism with exotic items

Textiles, mediteranean fruit, imported goods

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Tulips

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Brought from Turkey
Rare tulip bulbs cultivated and were expensive
Early watercolor catologues would show tulips with prices

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Rachel Ruysch
Flower Still Life

Flowers on a diagonal
Dramatic arrangement - combination of liveliness within flowers
Momentary - some flowers at peak of bloom, about to die

Vanitas

Insects, shells representing life

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Vanitas

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Include references to death.

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Christ with the Sick around him, Receining the Children

Rembrandt

Engraved

Shows Christ preaching, which speaks to protestant desire to focus on teachings and good deeds instead of idolatry.

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Benefits of printmaking

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  • Cheaper to own than commissioned paintings or sculptures
  • Multiple prints from one plate, allowing more circulation and profit
  • Due to price point, easier for more classes to obtain
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Idolatry

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worship of idols

Protestant reformation wanted to discourage idolatry and encourage good work and study.

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Countries and imagery

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Italiy and Spain - Catholic

Flanders (under spanish rule) - Catholic

Dutch - Protestant
output is often secular
religous imagry intended to be objects of devotion and thus, meant to be taken home instead of left int he church, as with Rembrandt engravings

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