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02/24/2014

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Italy

 

St. Peter's Colonade

by Bernini


- Made by gifted prodigy Bernini

- Represented the "arms" of the church

- Obelisk from Egypt was brought to the center to symbolize Christian triumph over other rleligions

- Sculptures line the entire colonade to represent important figures from the Bible

- Shaped as a Keyhole and features trapezoids instead of squares

 

 

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SOUTHERN BAROQUE, 1600 in Italy


St. Peters Remodel

by Maderno


- In the counter reformation, St. Peters was redone again

-Added a nave to make the church look like a cross instead of a central structure

- The extended nave dwarfs the original dome

- Very gigantic and extravagant (Very Classic of the Baroque)

- Classical elements are getting to be sculpturesque (3d entrance to the church)

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy

 

David

by Bernini

 

- Livesize and made of marble

- Cardinal commissioned this piece of art

- Depicted about to strike in the motion of battle

-Dynamic and shaped diagonally (much like the Boroque)

- Thought to be a self portrait of Bernini

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Italy


St. Teresa in Ecstasy

by Bernini


- Family is carved in relief on the side of the sculpture itself

- Marble centered

- Looks as if it is floating

- Golden rods symbolize sunlight and glory of God being shown down

- St. Teresa, the nun, felt as she was peirced in the chest with a passionate arrow of Christ

-Arrow is shown stabbing Teresa with the arrow

- Diagonal lines, in the middle of motion with emotion, drama

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Italy


San  Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

by Borromini


- Borromini commited suicide because he was jealous of Bernini

- In the center of an intersection

- Made as a more "intimate" small church of the public

- Fountains on each side

- Modern depiction in grey/white, to be simple and beautiful

-Honeycomb coffers on the inside get smaller and smaller as they go up to make the dome look larger than it is on the inside

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1600 in Italy


Calling of St. Matthew

by Caravaggio


- The biblical figures are dressed in modern clothes, makes it more realistic and relatable

- Tenebrism: dramatic sources of light and contrasting dark

- Peter & Jesus calling Matthew to be an apostle

- Small, subtle hint of halo for more grace instead of abnoxious ones from renaissance

- Christ's hand resembles Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam. Adam's hand is simliar.

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1600 in Italy


Conversion of St. Paul

by Caravaggio


- Paul has just fallen off his horse

- Black background with dramatic light and dark lit figures - tenebrism

- Figures imperfections are present to show realism/naturalism (growing interest of the Boroque)

- Caravaggio wants religious paintings to be more realistic and believable

- Diagonal, motion, emotion

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy


Judith Slaying Holofernes

by Artemisia


- Judith killed Holofernes to save the Jews

- Strong female character influenced by Artemisia's life

- May be a life story depiction of her slaying her rapist


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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy


La Pittura

by Artemisia


- Self portrait of Artemisia herself

- Depicted painting, doing her own craft

- Not a frontal portrait which was common during the renaissance

- In the action of painting and not focused on us

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1600 in Italy


Love of the Gods (in the Farnese Palace)

by Annibale


- Painted frames to give the illusion of flat paintings on a ceiling (tromploi)

- Quadrio riportato: term to describe fake painted frames on a painting

- Realistic lighting to light painted sculptures; looks like it's lit from the actual light in the palace

- Mythological focus - not religious

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy


Glorication of the Reign of Urban VIII

by Pietro da Cortona


- Tromp l'oeil raises ceiling higher than it actually is

- Contains a lot of painted sculptures to look like it continues the actual architecture of the room

- Allegory

- Represents the mass power of the church, the glory and epicness

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Spain


Crucifixion

by Velazquez


- Realistic wood and body

- Placed on a wooden board to get more realistic posture

- Starved body, more realistic tones

- Devotional religious


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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Spain


Surrender of Breda

by Velazquez


- One of the first contemporary history paintings

- Depicting a recent event of the current period, the surrender of Breda to the Spainish from the Dutch

- Breda was a border town

- Lots of commotion, almost telling a story through actions

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Spain


Venus with a Mirror (or "Rokeby Venus")

by Velazquez


- A very sensual painting

- Includes son cupid holding a mirror for Venus to admire her beauty

- Very modest because we see her back and only her face in the mirror

- Painted with a "painterly" approach, we see the brush strokes of the artist

 

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Spain


Les Meninas (Maids of Honor)

by Velazquez


- Princess Margarita le Infanta is depicted stopping by to say hello to mom and dad

- Queen and King are being painted

- We can see the King and Queen through the mirror on the back

- Man in the doorway is directing our eyes

- Velazquez is self portrayed in this, later added a cross to put emphasis on his elite status

- Painterly Approach

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1600 in Flanders


Raising of the Cross

by Rubens


- Rubens worked with lots of students and it is unsure of which paintings were actually by him

- This was by Rubens himself

- Triptych

- Influenced by the high renaissance: Michaelangelo's strong bodies, Titian's color, and Caravaggio's tenebrism (lighting)

- Motion and emotion, lots of drama, diagonal lines


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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Flanders


Venus & Adonis

by Rubens


- Motion scene, Venus is a diagonal connecting with Adonis

- Men are darker and women are more fair, this is true of the renaissance and boroque period

- Brush strokes are present, painterly

- Ruben painted "plump" women who would later be known as "rubensian women"

- Baby cupid is begging Adonis to stay

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in England (from Flanders)


Charles I on Horseback

by Anthony Van Dyck


- Painterly style

- Equestrian image of an important person on horseback

- Very noble portrait

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Holland


Laughing Cavalier

by Frans Hals


- Portrait in the moment, spontaneous, more of the boroque period

- Smirk instead of head on and calm

- Painterly style of Frans Hals (very recognizable)

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Holland


Self Portraits

by Rembrandt van Ryn


- van Ryn did many self portraits throuhgout his life (75 estimated)

- More of self exploration than vain

- Rags to riches to rags kind of story

- Lots of heartache, can see emotion

- Painterly style

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Hollant


Blinding of Samson

by Rembrandt van Rijn


- Biblical story of Delilah and Samson

- Even though no one commissioned idol worship art pieces in Holland, you could still choose to paint them for your own benefit

- Van Rijn expressed his belief and faith through art

- Blinding of Samson after his hair has been cut by Delilah

- She is running away

- Motion and emotion

- Tenebrism from Caravaggio, dramatic use of light

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Holland


Night Watch

by Rembrandt van Rijn


- Originally a day scene, but the darkening of years earned the name Night Watch

- Depicted Militia

- Rembrandt's wife is said to be depicted, with a dead chicken hanging from her

- Claws of the chicken represent the militia's code of arms

- Diagonal line

- Group portrait, but not everyone was painted with fairness as some are more important than others and he wanted to make it interesting

- Unlike Dutch paintings because of it's extreme size

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SOUTHER BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy


Baldacchino (Inside St. Peters)

by Bernini


- Columns inside St. Peters

- Twisted columns

- Cast bronze & guilded

- Bees to represent the patron & that Peter gave off a sweet scent instead of his body rotting when he died

- above the tomb of Peter

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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Italy


Louis XIV

by Bernini


- Made when Bernini traveled up to Paris

- Sun King

- Motion, action, reaction

- Flowing fabric


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SOUTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in Italy


Judith and her Maidservant

by Artemesia


- Another part of the Judith and Holofernes story

- Inspired by her life story

- After the slaying, head in the basket

- Women as subjects

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in Holland


View of Haarlem

by Ruisdael


- Lots of sky, typical of the Dutch in this time period

- Very proud of land

- Actual place with actual landmarks

- Shows industry

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in Holland


Lace Maker

by Vermeer


- Camera obscura: projected light to trace or show images of subjects

- Genre scene, act of daily life

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in Holland


Geographer

by Vermeer


- Geographer shown making a map (important of Holland because they are very proud of their land)

- Camera obscura, beads of light

- Great window light source, Caravaggio inspired

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in Holland


View of Delft

by Vermeer


- Landscape

- View of Vermeers hometown

- Lots of sky

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1700 in Holland


Flower Still Life

by Ruysch


- Flowers were kind of like a momento mori - reminder of death

- Lots of color

- Female artist, Rachel Ruysch

- Her father was a botanist so that's why she paints flowers

- Studies different flowers, not all of these were in bloom when this was painted

- Tulipmania

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1625 in France


Assumption of the Virgin

by Poussin


- Mary rising into heaven after she was buried in her tomb

- Very classical

- Angels

- Sense of motion, yet still calm and orderly like Renaissance paintings

- Louis XIV preferred style of art


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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in France


Ashes of Phokion

by Poussin



- Looks like a landscape, which is out of the ordinary for Poussin who stated landscape is meaningless

- Poussin was the head of the Art School in France

- Influenced artists all over france

- Shows a woman gathering ashes of her dead father (supposed to be the subject)

- Trees are calm and orderly to promote renaissance peace and stability

- Setting is not real, unlike landscape

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1650 in France


Landscape with Hagar and the Angel

by Claude


- Showing servant girl Hagar running away after getting pregnant by married man, Abraham.

- Angel stops her as she's running away, tells her that her baby will do great things, and tells her to go back to Hagar's wife Sarah

- Balanced painting (trees on the side, lots of sky to fill space)

- Buildings mark distance

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1700 in France


Louis XIV

by Rigaud


- Showing Sun King in his glory

- Loves showing off his legs, ballet dancer

- Prefers full body portraits (king)

- Lots of symbolism and representation of his wealth/success


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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in France


Louvre

by Perrault, Le Bau, and Le Brun


- Large home for kings, but Louis XIV wanted it bigger

- Denied project for Bernini, passed it to these three

- Double columns

- Renaissance temple structure

- Very straight and structured

- Now a museum

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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in France


Palace of Versailles

by Le Brun and Le Vau


-  Large palace made extremely large for Louis XIV's stay

- Fountains around every corner

- Took almost all of France's money

- Gardens and meadows all around

- Could fit 25,000 people


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NORTHERN BOROQUE, 1675 in England


St. Paul's Cathetral

by Wren


- Inspired by gothic architecture (towers on the side)

- Double columns from classic French architecture (Inspired by the Louvre)

- Dome like St. Peters


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ROCOCO, 1775 in England


Mrs. Sheridan

by Gainsborough


- Aristocratic patron, typical of rococo

- Pastels, love of landscape

- Elegant and precise, very refined

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ROCOCO, 1750 in England


Marriage a la Mode

by Hogarth


- 6 part series of paintings telling the story of an unfortunate marriage of aristocrats in England

- Making fun of aristocrats

- Precise, refined figures showing emotion

- Pastel coloring

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ROCOCO, 1750 in France


Hotel de Soubise (Room de la Princesse)

by Boffrand


- Hotel for parties

- Room in the city

- Pastel, ornate

- Not measured exact space

- women had fancy parties in the city

- Oval rooms

- Delicate and precise

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ROCOCO, 1725 in France


Pilgramage to Cythera

by Watteau


- Real people in a mythological setting

- Cythera is an imaginary island of love and peace

- Aristocrats visiting but have to return to their life

- Pastels and Rubenistic style

- Painterly approach

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ROCOCO, 1750 in France


Venus Consoling Love

by Boucher


- Venus consoling a baby cupid who can't shoot a bow correctly

- Mythological scene

- Diagonal motion, however it is elegant and soft

- Pastel

- Rococo style


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ROCOCO, 1650 in France


The Swing

by Fragonard


- Pastel, aristrocat subject

- Priest in the dark, pushing girl

- Naughty painting

- Cupid is shown saying "shhh"

- Landscape is the setting but people are subject (much like rococo)

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ROCOCO, 1775 in France


Marie Antoinette

by Vigee Le Brun


- Vigee Le Brun made people look very flattering

- Marie Antoinette thought Vigee le Brun was amazing

- Lonely, queen of Louis XVI

- Pastels, showing rich and success with her clothes

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