The Baroque in Northern Europe Flashcards
Counter-Reformation
By Catholic’s, created dramatic and dark artwork to get people to come back to the Church and follow the Church rules to achieve salvation
Protestantism
Luther
achieve salvation through God, not the church
Flanders/Flemish
Spanish dominated, Catholic
Rule of Catholic Spain
Etching
metal plate, the sharp tool goes straight in the metal plate and lines exact and precise
intaglio method resized to the surface of the plate and covered with a layer of wax and sharp metal tool goes through the wax and exposes metal plate below and put acid bath and heavy cut on the metal plate and the acid creates the lines
Dutch Republic
Protestant
independent from Spain late 16th century
united province of the Netherlands.
Traits: wealth upper/middle class Republic Protestant (print work)
Genre
The genre was everyday life and everyday scenes
Portraiture
wealthy middle class and upper,
show who they are, to celebrate them, and how they want to be seen in the world
Dutch show good Protestant work and made money, how life is for the middle class
Landscapes
Dutch showed their land
terrain not good, land mushy and swampy, not good for farming futile land-owning system and special relation with land
loved the land they worked on
Still life
Dutch had inverted still life to avoid idolatry and moralistic to show good and bad behavior
Vanitas still life
vanity includes a certain number of memento mori
Pocket watch
time is passing
Extinguished candle and sand
tipper time running out
Cracked walnut
memento mori walnut on inside will shrivel up and die
Vanitas
show beautiful object but know death is coming
Grand Manner (Poussin)
reflect Poussin belief in how a paint should be
Grand Mannerism: 1. subject matter and geat subject (myth, history, religion) well-ordered space
deep expansion of space like renaissance stable composition and ideal proportion
Carrchi and Poussin same classical antiquity paint deep expansion of space composition calm and stable
