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Baroque Art-2

Baroque Art-2 - Mrs.McArthur's AP Art History ClassBaroque 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:

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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