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Reformation Art
“Knight, Death, and the Devil”
1513 {Albrecht Dürer}
Silver Engraving
Leader of Christian Humanism
in Germany
Martin Luther Philipp Melanchthon
Lucas Cranach the Elder / 1543 / Oil on wood
Albrecht Dϋrer
(self portrait)
1500
Oil on panel
Dϋrer at age 28
Reformation Art
“St. Jerome in His
Study” 1514
Albrecht Dϋrer
Silver engraving
Reformation Art
“The Burial of Count
Orgaz”
1586 / El Greco
Church of San Tomé,
Toledo, Spain
Oil on canvas
Baroque Art
► 1600 – 1750
► From a Portuguese word “barocca”,
meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”
► Implies strangeness, irregularity, and
extravagance.
► Dramatic & emotional!
Baroque Art
► Contrast of very bright and very dark
colors (heaven versus hell)
► Baroque art is associated with the
Counter Reformation.
► Art was to teach religion to the
illiterate, not the well-informed.
► Holland --> Real people were depicted
as the primary subjects. This showed
the economic success of the richest
area in all of Europe.
Reformation Art
“View of Toledo” 1600
El Greco {Domenicos
Theotokopoulos}
Oil on canvas
Use of light & dark
Toledo was the
spiritual capital of
Spain
Toledo, Spain today
Reformation Art
“The Triumph of the
Name of Jesus”
Giovanni Battista
Gaulli
Fresco 1674 – 1679
Ceiling of “il Gesύ”
Jesuit Cathedral in
Rome
Baroque Style
St. Peter’s
Basilica,
Vatican City
The
Baldacchino
1633
100’ tall
by Gialorenzo
Bernini
“The
Flagellation
of Christ”
by
Caravaggio
“The
Elevation of
the Cross”
by Peter
Paul
Reubens
1610-11
“David and Goliath” by Caravaggio
Church of Veltenberg Altar, Germany
“The Ecstasy of St. Theresa of Avila”
by Gianlorenzo
Bernini
1647-52
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