Transcript Chapter 19-BaroqueArt.pps

Baroque Art
Late 1600’s to Early 1700’s in
Europe and Italy
Counter Reformation
• Effort by the Catholic Church to lure
people back and regain their power
• Art played a major role
• A new style emerged with dramatic flair
and dynamic movement
Baroque Art
• Style characterized by movement, vivid
contrast and emotional intensity
• Elaborate figures and colored marble was
seen in art
Gianlorenzo Bernini
1598-1680
David
• Theme is movement
• Twisting body, preparing to hurl a stone at
Goliath
• Dramatic action suggests that Goliath is in
front of David
David
The Three Davids
Donatello
Michelangelo
Bernini
St. Peter’s Collonade
• It was Bernini who
was commissioned to
created St. Peter’s
Collonade. It is said
that Bernini intended
the colonnade to
symbolize the arms of
the Church, reaching
out to embrace the
world In the view
shown here, one can
see, looking from
colonnade down into
the city:
Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640
• Most completely captured the dynamic
spirit of the Baroque style
Peter Paul Rubens
Daniel in the Lion’s Den. 1613.
Dutch Art
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1648- Treaty with Spain divided low
countries into two parts:
1. Flanders in South (Catholic and Spain
territory)
2. Holland in North (Protestant and
independent from Spain)
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The Baroque style was limited to
Catholic- Counter Reformation
Dutch Genre
• Artwork portrayed homes and profitable
businesses
• People, places, city squares and streets,
country sides and the sea
• Genre- scenes from daily life
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669
• Greatest Dutch painter of his era
The Night Watch
The Night Watch
Originally titled-The Company of Captain
Frans Banning Cocq
Officer in charge giving instruction
light in centered on major figures
Rembrandt skills- light for dramatic events
Frozen time period
Jan Vermeer
1632-1675
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All but forgotten
Fewer than 40 paintings exist
He is best known as a painter of interiors
Vermeer was a painter of light. In his study of optics he undoubtedly used a
camera obscura, or “darkened chamber,” the ancestor of the modern
photographic camera. This scientific device employed an adjustable lens
and mirrors to capture reflected light and project the scene onto a viewing
screen in its lid.
Vermeer analyzed the resulting images carefully because they duplicate the
selective focus of the human eye. Only objects at a certain distance from
the camera or the eye are in sharp focus. This is exactly the optical effect
Vermeer has generated here. Precise white highlights glisten from the
writing box, pearl earrings, satin hair ribbons, and the chair’s brass tacks—
all of which lie equally in the middle distance. The near tablecloth is
purposely blurred, and the painting on the far wall is hazy. This is just as
they would look to someone concentrating specifically on the woman.
Because she directly faces the viewer with an open gaze, the painting may
be a portrait.
Jan Vermeer
1632-1675
Woman Holding a Balance
The Girl with the Red Hat
Jan Vermeer
1632-1675
A Lady Writing, c. 1665
oil on canvas, 45 x 39.9 cm (17 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Jan Vermeer. Girl With the Pearl
Earring.