Art History 2 - Baroque
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- Frans Hals, Malle Babbe
- Picture: Grotesque Woman with Owl on Shoulder
- Francsco Borromini
- Very imaginative architect who repeatedly invented new details, which he never repeated.
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Greatest Flemish painter of the Baroque, later befriended Velazquez.
- St. Matthew and the Angel, Caravaggio
- Picture: Old bald saint writing, looking over shoulder at wispy angel. Black background.
- irregular, contorted, grotesque
- Baroque
- Peter Paul Rubens, Marie de Medici
- Picture: Woman crossing boarding plank from ship.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Baroque sculptor, architect who had Pope Urban VIII as patron.
- Peter Paul Rubens
- 2nd marriage at age 52 was to a 16-year old, whom he represented often as the ideal of beauty. His definition of female beauty became the standard for all women in the Baroque.
- Francesco Borromini, St Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
- Picture: Church on an acute angle, fronting closely two streets, with a fountain and a corner tower, facade on right side of street. Very odd plan.
- Annibale Carracci
- Of a family that founded a private art academy which began art academy tradition.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstacy of St. Theresa
- Picture: Sculpture/scene of woman touched by angel with shower of 3D golden light behind.
- Caravaggio
- Subjects were frequently realistic, not idealized.
- Ceiling Fresco in Palazzo Farnese in Rome, Annibale Carracci
- Picture: Curved vaulted ceiling, lots of 'framed' paintings
- Caravaggio
- Work appealed to rich and cultured, but not everyday people.
- Annibale Carracci
- Most significant of a family of Bolognese painters.
- Giacomo della Porta
- Architect, Sculptor, pupil of Michelangelo
- tenebrism
- The technique of dramatic, selective illumination of form out of deep shadow.
- Rembrandt Van Rijn, The Night Watch
- Picture: A lot of men at night, one on a horse, odd bright girl in center steals the show.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Baldacchino
- Picture: Super ornate large sculpture/mini-building that served as the Pope's chain at St. Peter's in Rome.
- Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross
- Picture: Christ on cross (at angle), 3-panel.
- Jan de Heem
- Dutch painter of 'vanitatum', still life paintings designed to teach a moral lesson about life (vanity of earthly things).
- Caravaggio
- Real name Michelangelo Merisi
- Francesco Borromini, St Agnese in Pizza Navona
- Picture: Different-looking cathedral with North and South towers and a greek-looking portal in the middle on a wall that is set back from front of towers. In the background is a tall and narrow dome.
- Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas
- Picture: Very small girl in dress (future wife of Louis XIV), surrounded by other people with a dwarf and a dog. Most of upper part of painting is dark. Painter himself is on left side.
- Anthony Van Dyck
- Prolific 17th Century Flemish Portraitist, the quintessential painter of aristocracy.
- Rembrandt Van Rijn, Christ Preaching
- Picture: Sketch of Christ with hands slightly raised, surrounded by rapt disciples.
- Giacomo della Porta
- Architect of St. Peter's, finishing Michelangelo's Dome & Lantern.
- Caravaggio
- Developed technique of tenebrism.
- Rembrandt Van Rijn
- Considered one of the greatest Dutch Baroque artists, his financial success was offset by tragic deaths of two wives and all four of his sons.
- Giacomo della Porta
- Completed plan of Il Gesu, Jesuit church.
- Giacomo della Porta
- Ushered in age of Baroque architecture.
- Anthony Van Dyck, Portrait of Charles I Hunting
- Picture: Man with hat and boots, leaning on gun in front of horse.
- Entombment, Caravaggio
- Picture: Dead Christ, lamentors, stone platform centered, coming out of picture.
- Il Gesu, Rome, Giacomo della Porta
- Picture: facade of building, double columns
- Diego Velazquez, The Waterseller of Seville
- Picture: Dignified waterseller with jugs of water indulging two youths. Dark background behind figures.
- Francesco Borromini
- Bernini's contemporary and rival, the better architect of the two.
- Guercino, Aurora
- Picture: Ceiling fresco with distorted architectonic features to give enhanced depth. This painting popularized the trend of Baroque ceiling painting.
- Caravaggio
- His 3 paintings of St. Matthew mark the end of the Mannerist period.
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- The greatest Baroque sculptor of the 17th century.
- Diego Velazquez
- Greatest Spanish Baroque Painter.
- Diego Velazquez
- Developed a very realistic style of portraying subjects (non-idealized). Popularized and brought dignity to bodegones (genre subjects).
- Jan de Heem, Still Life with Parrots
- Picture: Table with fruits and cups, and a parrot.
- Frans Hals
- This Dutch painter had a nearly impressionistic in the looseness in his style
- Guercino
- Self-taught artist whose name means 'the squinter.'