Northern/ Dutch Baroque Art
World of nature is presented with greater naturalism and sensuality, interested in the properties of light and vision, elevation of the ordinary to the ideal, art as a means of personal expression, middle-class patronage increases the development of diff.
Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, 1600
Historical: Highly religious diplomat, well liked and well educated, combo of Renaissance and Baroque. Influence of Michaelangelo and Titian.
Stylistic: Portrays idealized bodies- lights and darks, composition is tense and unpleasant, tremendous straining
Hals, Laughing Cavalier, 1624
Historical: Brought his paintings to life by capturing people high spirited moments.
Stylistic: Not laughing, enigmatic smile, much amplified by his upturned mustaches. The composition is lively and spontaneous. Turned pose and low viewpoint.
Leyster, Self Portrait, 1630
Historical: Dress signifies social and economic status. Shows that she's happy that shes a painter. She has confidence and she is also a skillful person
Stylistic: Looking at the viewer showing that she's a painter. High status as a female.
Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642
Historical: A time where guilds would commission a painting by splitting the bill. People in front either paid more or were the leaders of the militia. Showed the company rushing about as they organize themselves for a parade. Recorded three most importan
Vermeer, The Letter, 1669-70
Historical: 17th cent. A servant maid handing a letter to a young woman with a cittern.
Stylistic:Tied-up curtain in the foreground creates the impression that the viewer is looking at an intensely private, personal scene. The diagonals on the chequered f
Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701
Historical: France, king of France from 1643 to 1715; his long reign was marked by the expansion of French influence in Europe and by the magnificence of his court and the Palace of Versailles (1638-1715)
Stylistic: aristocratic portraits. Combines realis
Flanders
a medieval country in northern Europe that included regions now parts of northern France and Belgium and southwestern Netherlands that were Catholic. Opposing Protestant neighbors
Genre Scene
In the pictorial arts and sculpture, the casual representation of everyday life and surroundings. Also a type, style, or category of art.
Vanitas
In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic still life painting commonly executed by Northern European painters in Flanders and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The term vanitas itself refers to the arts, learning and time. The w
Rubens, Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles, 1620s
Van Dyck, Charles I Dismounted, 1624
Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632
Rembrandt, Self Portrait, 1660
shows misery, wife died, son dying and bankrupt, society turned against him, best representation of aging at the time, 1658, Dutch, taught by mediocre artist
Ruisdael, View of Harlem, 1670
Claesz, Vanitas, 1628
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Poussin, Burial of Phocion, 1650s
Lorrain, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1627
Mansart and Le Brun, Hall of Mirrors, 1670s- 1680
Versailles Palace,
built durin reign of Louis XIV--grandest and most impressive palace in all of Europe-Baroque-helped with control over nobility
Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul's Cathedral, 1675- 1710