The Seventeenth Century in Italy

February 25, 2013

Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Peter’s Basilica Piazza, designed 1656-57

Bernini,

Baldacchino,

St. Peter’s Basilica,

1624-33

Bernini,

David,

1623

Bernini,

St. Theresa of Ávila in Ecstasy,

Cornaro Chapel,

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome,

1645-52

Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600

The Seventeenth Century in Italy,

Spain and Flanders

February 27, 2013

Caravaggio,

Bacchus,

1595-6

Caravaggio,

Conversion of St. Paul,

Cerasi Chapel,

Santa Maria del Popolo,

Rome,

c. 1601

Jusepe de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, 1634

Francisco de Zurbarán,

St. Serapion,

1628

Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, c. 1602

Diego Velázquez,

Water Carrier of

Seville, c. 1619

Velázquez,

Las Meninas,

1656

Peter Paul Rubens,

Self-Portrait with

Isabella Brandt (The

Honeysuckle Portrait),

1609-10

The Northern Baroque and The

Golden Age of Dutch Painting

March 4, 2013

Rubens’s house, Antwerp

Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, Church of St. Walpurga, Antwerp, 1610-11

Rubens,

Henry IV receiving the

portrait of Marie de’

Medici,

1621-5

Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, c. 1670

Johannes Vermeer,

View of Delft, c.

1662

Vermeer,

Woman holding a Balance,

c. 1664

Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Tazza, 1636

Rachel Ruysch, Flower Still Life, after 1700/ Flower Still Life, 1704

Gerard ter Borch,

The Suitor’s Visit,

c. 1658

Judith

Leyster, The

Proposition, 1629

Judith Leyster,

Self-Portrait,

1635

Frans Hals,

Catharina Hooft and her

Nurse, c. 1620

Frans Hals, Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St. Adrian, c. 1627

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp, 1632

Rembrandt, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (‘The Night Watch’), 1642