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Baroque Era also known as age
of expansion
Baroque word comes from
BARROCO, used to describe irregularly shaped pearl or the bizarre
naturalism
a style that refers to form, subject matter & content
classicism
a style characterized by order, structure, harmony, balance
high baroque
strong diagonals, dark/light contrasts, drama, energy, movement, swirling compositions
Genre paintings
Pictures of people doing everyday things
Other name for Hals banquet scene
Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint Adrian
images were not painted for mere decoration; they often carried moral connotations. The vanitas theme was an underlyin moral message in most of these paintings
still lifes
Latin: Remember u will die
Momento More
Still life where cup is knocked over
Still life with Tazza, Claez
Floral “time piece” still life
Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch, Willem van Aelst
Girl with the Pearl Earring known as
Giaconda (Mona Lisa) of the North
Girl w/ the Pearl Earring pose
risque, slightly parted weet lips
Example of vanitas paintings (Last Judgement painting in background)
Woman with balance
Woman with balance represents
ability to balance the spiritual world with the material world
Painted figures in a very naturalistic manner (2)
Rembrandt/Caravaggio
Parade painting longer title name
The Company of Captain Cocq
Young boy w/ grapes
Sick Bacchus (Caravaggio)
God Bacchus was God of
wine
Criticism in Calling of Saint Mathew
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS: Men more concerned with money than w/ what’s going on
Upside down on cross painting
Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio
where is Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio?
santa maria del popolo
Jesus invites viewer into dinner
Supper @ Emmaus (Caravaggio)
breakdown f the “barrier” that separates the viewer from the figures themselves or the action in which they participate
coextensive space
Supper @ Emmaus contreversy
Jesus had no beard, could’ve been modeled off of street peasant
Mini Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius
Guerchino’s Aurora
The expansion of Europe itself, combined with the increase of knowledge in various subjects, manifested in the visual arts through a phenomenon known as
coextensive space
looking up, the piece extends the space of the painting
di sotto in su
as if someone took a painting from a wall and moved to the ceiling
quadro ripotato
Who else did Guerchino mini apotheosis?
Reni did Aurora
Reni’s Aurora was in
Quadro Ripotato
credited with spreading the baroque styles to northern europe
peter paul rubens
peter paul rubens was a ________ painter
flemish
Rubens did study of ________ but also warned against doing that too much
statues
Rubens transformation of copies of statues ______ + name of piece
Sentaur becomes christ, cupid becomes saint peter in ECCE HOMO
Rubens known for
rich colors
+ rubenesque body
2 crowded triptychs
Rubens, Raising of the Cross & Descent from cross
Where are cross triptychs?
antwerp cathedral
There’s a standing horse, two women & two men
Peter Paul Rubens, “Rape (Abduction) of the Daughters of Leucippus”
Mythological real life story
The Medici Cycle by Rubens
Scene is wavy and looks almost underwater
The Allegory of the Outbreak of War by Rubens
Europ is dropping her jewles
Venus trying to pull mars away from war, alecto (a fury) trying to pull Mars TOWARDS war
Plague and famine above a mother and child (the people who suffer the most)
Bottom woman with hair thing is alegory for discord
The Allegory of the Outbreak of War by Rubens
Many women in this painting + cupids. Made to celebrate wedding
The Garden of Love, Rubens
Yoke (top left grabbing cupid), Venus (fountain), Helena
3 Graces representing Chastity beauty and love
Venus in fountain, water rfom breast to create fountain
The Garden of Love, Rubens
Woman naked w/ black coat around waist
Helena Fourment with Fur Cloak (Ruben’s wife)
