“post”renaissance.ppt

Baroque 1600-1750,France & Holland,Poussin,French, worked in Rome to be among antiquitiesa man of the past & future (a Renaissance soul born into a Baroque-era body)works and writings articulate values of French Academic painting: serious, formalhated the works of Caravaggio,Nicolas Poussin The Holy Family on the Steps 1648,p. 282,,Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655 Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.,,Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus c. 1618,p. 282,Rubens, Descent from the Cross, 1611-1614,Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1640,Sortie of Capt Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic Guard AKA “The Nightwatch”,“theatrical” lightinggroup portrait genre,Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1661,KEY IMAGE p 288,60+,Rembrandt,begins to use impastorealistic images need to be viewed from a distance,Vermeer,acute observer of lifeLIGHTlittle known in his timereputation grows in the 19th Centuryonly about 35 works identified,Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting, c. 1665-70,p. 285,Detail, The Allegory,Vermeer, The Milkmaid, c. 1658-60,KEY IMAGE p. 286,Vemeer,Woman holding a balance 1664,Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, c. 1670,Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690,PREPARE TO DIE,Vanitas Still Life, 1603 Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629),Earliest known vanitas,Still life – painting of inanimate objects,dates in the Baroque,1742,Handel’s Messiah oratorio,c. 1600,SUMMARY – BAROQUE ART,POLITICS: emergence of The State ART: light, energy, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too IDEAS: scientific method,。