Baroque art“Misshapen and Ill-formed” ?

orOrnate and Exquisite?

Counter ReformationItaly---Spain

drama--art as a stage--active lines, diagonal planes

Caravaggio

St. Peter’s demise --- St. Matthew’s conversion

Bernini

St. Teresa in Ecstasy

Apollo and Daphne

Louis XIV’s bust

Velasquez and El Greco

Water CarrierandMaids of Honor

the busy surface ofBurial of Count Orgaz

ARISTOCRATIC ARTArt and Music Academies controlled by the king

“Academic” Poussin

(from France, but hid in Italy)

“Exuberant”Rubens

(from Lowlandsbut stayed and played in Spain and France)

Rapeof the Sabine

Women (left)

versusRape of

daughters ofLuppus(right)

formal, balancedversus

lush, fleshyand active

Bourgeoisie Stillness

Vermeer Rembrandt

Notice the light source

Art of Painting

Dr. Tulip Anatomy Lessoncorporation painting

Self-portraits,the many faces of

Rococo taking frothy and light to new levels

Watteau’sMusic party

Fragonard’s Swing

Baroque Architecturesurface as ornament and sculpture

Italiansculptural surface(Borromini)

Santiago cathedral, Spainornate, embellished surface

St. Paul’s in Londonthe triumph of Christopher Wren

The Common Man Rules

Hogarth---from his oils,created engravings such as Gin Lane, satirizing all levels of society….On to revolution and the Enlightenment

Marriage a la Mode

Rake’s Progress

Belvedere--Viennafrilly but flattened,low relief of “style galant”

Rococo leads to

style galant…the aristocratic approach after 1715

Sans Souciis “carefree”in Germany

Chinoiseriereflects the fascination withthe unknownsof the East

Women join the ranks of the elite….salon leaders and academic painters

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun1755-1842

held out for the aristocracy

Angelica Kauffmann1741-1807

Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as her Treasuresacademic painter of neoclassical movement

Vigee-LeBrun,Marie Antoinette and her Children, 1789

in the year of the French Revolution,

made Marie Antoinettelook motherly.

Painted shortly before the queen’s beheading.

Child points to an empty cradle.

Neo-Classical Art and Architecturesymbolizing strength, balance and order

Ancient Rome and Greece serve as models for Democracy

How do theRoman ruins of the Forum and Pantheon(100-200 C.E.)

compare withNeo-Classical structures

of the 1800s?

U.S. Treasury, built by our FreeMason Founding Fathers in 1836

Paris’ Pantheon, built in 1789…Rousseau is buried there

Napoleon makes his mark in Paris….the human hero is God

Medieval Notre Dame becomesThe Shrine of the Cult of Reason

Horses are stolenfrom Venice

to sit atop Napoleon’s Victory Arch

(L’Arc du Triomphe du Carrousel, 1806)

Napoleon’s Archlooks suspiciously like the Romans’ Arch of Trajan, 114 C.E., don’t you think?

Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)becomes the painter of the French Revolution

as well as the Classical Period’s leading academic artist

a moralist with a message Heroic, academic,balanced composition

Oath of the Horatii, 1784What “threes” do you see?

Lictors Bringing Back to Brutusthe Bodies of His Sons, 1789Brutus appears in the shadows...What is David warning about?

DAVID, Death of Marat, 1793

• Marat is killed by Charlotte Corday who felt that he was leading the revolution with excessive bloodiness

• Painting is made in same year that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are guillotined

• Marat is in a bath due to a crippling skin disease

• Note that Marat clutches says that Corday is taking Marat’s life due to her suffering

• Marat becomes instant martyr for the cause—wound is displayed at funeral

Prints of the times….

Hogarth--Gin Lane

Gillray-New Coalitionthe father ofpolitical prints

Goyakissing a corpse

Hokusai-Great Wave

Sculpture once again becomes a leading art form….Pompeii is unearthed in 1748 C.E.

Statues symbolize the best of Classical art (ancient and Neo-)sturdy, heroic, timeless

Canova (1757-1822)creates togas and fig leaves

Venus Victorious, 1808 Napoleon, 1802

HOUDON, Ben Franklin, 1779

• Houdon was a fellow Freemason, as were Voltaire, Mozart, Haydn, Jefferson and our founding fathers

• Franklin’s wigless image created a stir in France

Voltaire

In the new U.S.A…

and Washington gets a toga, too

Classical architecture emerges….

the heroic is championed….

Benjamin WestThe Death of General Wolfe, 1770

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