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Baroque Art-2
Artist: Caravaggio
Title: The Calling of
Saint Matthew
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 10'7½" X 11'2"
(3.24 X 3.4 m)
Date: 1599–1600
story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed him. Christ brings the true light to the dark space the gesture of Jesus as he points towards Matthew
Artist: Caravaggio
Title: Entombment
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 9'10⅛" X 6'7 15⁄16" (3 X 2.03 m)
Date: 1603–4
This counter-reformation painting with a diagonal cascade of mourners and cadaver -bearers descending to the limp, dead Christ and the bare stone – is not a moment of transfiguration, but of mourning
-While faces are important in painting generally, in Caravaggio it is important always to note where the arms are pointing Tradition held that the Virgin Mary be depicted as eternally young, but here Caravaggio paints the Virgin as an old woman
Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Title: Judith and Maidservant with the Head of
Holofernes
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 6'½" X 4'7" (1.84 X 1.41 m)
Date: 1625
One of Caravaggio's most successful followers
Florence Academy of Design
Florence obsessed with David and Judith
She exemplifies baroque naturalism and
tenebrism- strong use of chiaroscuro and
dramatic lighting to create dramatic scenes with
strong contrast
Judith cuts head of General Holofernes
Maid stuffs head in bag
Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Title: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of
Painting
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 38 X 29" (96.5 X 73.7 cm)
Date: 1630
Became famous for her portraits and
women heroine paintings
Her clothing and jewelry come from a
popular source book called Iconologia
by Cesare Ripa (1593)
Mask imitates the human face like
painting imitates nature
Gold chain is the interlocking and
continuous nature of painting between
generations
Pay tribute to her and her father
Baroque in France
• Louis the XIV expanded France’s art patronage making it the envy of royal courts
• Royal Academy of Paintings and Sculpture
Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-
Mansart; gardens by André Le Nôtre
Title: Palais de Versailles
Date: 1668–85
Title: Central Block of the Garden Façade,
Palais de Versailles
Artist: Jules Hardouin-
Mansart and Charles Le
Brun
Title: Hall of Mirrors,
Palais de Versailles
Medium: n/a
Size: Length approx. 240'
(73 cm)
Date: Begun 1678
Source/ Museum:
Versailles, France
Artist: François Girardon
Title: Apollo Attended by the Nymphs of Thetis
Medium: Marble
Size: life-size
Date: c. 1666–75. Grotto by Hubert Robert in
1776; sculpture reinstalled in a different
configuration in 1778
Source/ Museum: From the Grotto of Thetis,
Palais de Versailles, Versailles, France
Artist: Georges de La Tour
Title: Mary Magdalen with the
Smoking Flame
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 46¼ X 36⅛" (117 X 91.8 cm)
Date: c. 1640
One of Caravaggio's most important
followers in France
Court painter for Louis the XIII
Monumental figures with dramatically
lit spaces
Lighting and compression of figure in
picture plane leads to a sense of
intimacy
Mary meditates on the frailty of
human life
Artist: Claude Lorrain
Title: Embarkation of the
Queen of Sheba
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 4' 10" X 6' 4" (1.48
X 1.93 m)
Date: 1648
Organized nature in to
idealized compositions
Would put objects in the
foreground to draw the
viewer into the picture
Most of his works are
studies on rising and
falling light
Zig zag into the
background
Classical elements
emerge from the
forground
Artist: Nicolas Poussin
Title: Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40 X 53½" (101.8 X 136.3 cm)
Date: 1640
Orderly
classical
arranged
landscapes
Constant
perspective
from foreground
to distance
St. John writes
second coming
to Christ
Zones marked
by light and
shadow
eagle
Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud
Title: Louis XIV
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 9'2" X 7'10¾" (2.19 X 2.4 m)
Date: 1701
This portrait was commissioned as a gift for Philip V of Spain. However, it was such a success at court that it was never sent to Spain. Every detail of the work is aimed at producing the quintessential image of absolute power: -the nobility of the antique setting -the crimson curtain -the solemnity of the Sun King wearing his coronation robes embroidered with the royal fleur de lys.
Hapsburg German, Austria, and Spain
Hapsburg Ruler Charles V dies…
Formerly the holy roman empire was divided into German and Austria to
Ferdinand (brother) and Spain, Netherlands, american colonies to
Phillip II (son)
Artist: Jakob Prandtauer
Title: Benedictine Monastery Church, Melk
Date: 1702–36 and later
Source/ Museum: Austria
Art suffered in
Germany and
Austria due to
protestant
reformation
18th century
brought peace
Baroque additions
began to appear
on medieval
churches
Twin towered west
work and 2 tall
wings jet out from
front containing
great hall and
library
Artist: n/a
Title: Interior, Benedictine Monastery
Church, Melk
Date: Completed after 1738, after designs
by Prandtauer, Antonio Beduzzi, and
Joseph Munggenast
Source/ Museum: Austria
Large windows and open galleries show
out to the river
Colossal pilasters and dome thrust the
building upwards towards the clouds
Provided lodging for dignitaries and
royalty which made the palace like
decoration appropriate