I, Juan de Pareja,Art, and Artists

by

Anna J. Small Roseboro

Teaching Middle School Language Arts: Incorporating Twenty-first Century Literacies

Historical Novel by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

En espanol

In English

Set in 17th Century Spain

Madrid

Seville

Learn about PAINTERS who may have influenced Velázquez.

Caravaggio Rembrandt Rubens TitianRaphael and

a variety of styles of ART

ChiaroscuroBaroqueRealismIdealism

All are reflected in Velázquez’ painting.

Chiaroscuro

n., [It., lit., clear, dark < L. clarus, clear + obscurus, dark] 1. the treatment of light and dark in a painting, drawing, etc., to produce the illusion of depth, a dramatic effect.

Painting seems to have spotlight highlighting a portion of it.

Bacchus c. 1597 (160 Kb); Oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence

Caravaggio – Self as Bacchus

Reflects chiaroscuro in his work.

Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio c. 1600-01 (National Gallery, London)

Seems to have spotlight

Rembrandt HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN

Amsterdam, Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century.

Self-Portrait 1640 National Gallery, London

Notice Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro

Seems to have a spot light shining

The Night Watch by Rembrandt

1642; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Seems to have a spot light shining

Baroque Period An era in the history of the Western arts roughly

coinciding with the 17th century.

stylistically complex

to evoke emotional states

appealing to the senses

in dramatic ways.

Baroque Art

Peter Paul Rubens

The Flemish baroque painter and one of the foremost painters in Western art history.

Self-Portrait (?)

Ruben’s Daniel in the Lion’s Den

c. 1615 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 224.3 x 330.4 cm (88 1/4 x 130 1/8 in); National Gallery of Art, Washington

Emotional scene –FEAR

qualities associated with

the Baroque Period:

vitality, movement, tension,

emotional exuberance

MovementColor

Vitality

Rubens Battle of the Amazons 1618

 1. what is real and true rather than abstract or theoretical. 

2. present things as they actually are. 

3. representing things as normally seen. (Cf. idealism.)

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Realism

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Venetian painter born in Pieve di Cadore, by his own account, in 1477.

Penitent Mary Magdalen 1560s Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Titian

Notice detail – drape of clothing.

Raphael

Master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance.

Bindo Altoviti c. 1515 National Gallery of Art, Washington

Raphael’s Realism

Realistic

Clothing of the Period

Madonna of the Chair Galleria PalatinaPalazzo Pitti, Florence

Diego de Velázquez

Spain's greatest painter

c. Self Portrait 1640 Museo de Bellas Atres de San Pio V, Valencia

A master of technique,

a greater influence on European art than any other painter.

Velázquez’ Bacchus

Velázquez’ Bacchus

Caravaggio’s Bacchus

Notice: Similarities in subject and style

Vitality

Movement

Color

1634 Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Count-Duke of Olivares on Horseback

Velázquez

Baroque

Style

Chiaroscuro Realism

Velázquez’ Painting reflects both

The Water Seller of Seville

Seems to have a spot light shining

Notice torn clothing

KING PHILIP IV OF SPAIN

Painted in 1644.

The Dwarf Sebastian de Morra (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Velázquez paints

both with dignity.

Diego and Juan

Travel from

Spain

to

Italy

Their destination

Rome

to view Italian

art.

Michelangelo, Sculpture and Painter

Self Portrait

Michelangelo’sPieta

c. 1498-99 Marble Basilica of St Peter, Vatican

Creation of the Sun and Moon

Creation Section of Sistine Chapel Fresco

This one

The Creation of Adam

Creation Section of Sistine Chapel Fresco

Renaissance Women Artists

Female painters often taught in studios by their fathers. Women artists often painted portraits and religious subjects.

Artemisia Gentileschi      &      

Elisabetta Sirani Important Painters of the

Baroque Period

Artemisia Gentileschi

born in Rome, lived in Florence, Naples, and elsewhere from 1593 to 1652. 

Self Portrait

Paintings by GentileschiClassical/Biblical

Subjects

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Elisabetta Sirani. Oil on Canvas

Porcia Wounding Her Thigh, by Elisabetta Sirani. oil on canvas. Samuels & Company, NY.

Women in Power

Elisabetta Sirani

Sirani, born in 1638, lived all her short life in Bologna.

She opened the school in 1652, when she was just fourteen years old!

Portrait of Elisabetta Sirani painted by her sister, Barbara Sirani, one of Elisabetta’s students.

Paintings by Elisabetta Sirani

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, by Elisabetta Sirani (c. 1662).. Rome Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica,

Virgin and Child, by Elisabetta Sirani. Oil on canvasNational Museum/Gallery of Women in the Arts

Well-known then; not now.

Upon the death of Elisabetta Sirani in 1665, a large public funeral was held with a distinguished crowd of mourners paying tribute to her life and work.

Muse of Tragedy. E.Sirani

Raphael’s Painting of Pope Leo X

Velázquez is commissioned to paint the Pope Innocent X.

No, neither is related to

Malcolm X.

Velázquez’ Pope Innocent X

c. 1650 (120 Kb); Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome

Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja

Juan de Pareja

Pope Innocent X

Velázquez’ Masterpiece

Pope Innocent X c. 1650 (120 Kb); Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome

Notice detail – drape of clothing.

Realism, like Titian

Chiaroscuro, like Caravaggio

Baroque, like Rubens

Strong colors

Pose, similar toRaphael’spainting.

Seems to have a spot light shining

Bartolome Murillo Student of Velázquez

(1617-82)

Murillo’s THE HOLY FAMILY OF THE LITTLE BIRD

Like master, Velázquez: chiaroscuro and realism

Oil on canvas Musee du Louvre, Paris

Murillo’s

The Young Beggar

Notice torn clothing, and dirty feet.

Realism

Novel is based on the painting, Las Meniñas

Cross of Santiago?

Velázquez painted himself in picture.

The MYSTERY…..

Who painted the

Las Meniñas 1656-57 Museo del Prado, Madrid

1661 Prado Museum, Madrid

The Calling of Saint Matthew by Juan de Pareja

Juan de Pareja paints himself in picture.

Can you find examples of each?

Like his teacher, Pareja uses chiaroscuro, baroque and realism.

Try now, to define these styles of art.

ChiaroscuroBaroqueRealismIdealism

Check out books from nearby library with art by these painters.

VelázquezRaphael

Titian Rembrandt

Caravaggio

Michelangelo

Rubens

or log on

to the Internet

and view art.

Sources of Images

Art Archive http://www.artchive.com/

Art Cyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com

Art Renewal Center http://www.artrenewal.org/

Christus and Rex www.christusrex.org/

The Frick Collection http://www.frick.org/

Museum of El Prado http://www.spanisharts.com/

WebMuseum http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

Visit a MUSEUM and see some of the

paintings.

The Beginning.

stylistically complex, …the desire to evoke emotional states by appealing to the senses, often in dramatic ways. Qualities most frequently associated with the Baroque are grandeur, sensuous richness, drama,

vitality, movement,tension,

emotional exuberance!

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Characteristics of Baroque Art

 1.an interest in or concern for what is real and true rather than abstract or theoretical. 

2.a tendency to see or present things as they actually are. 

3.a movement in the fine arts and literature that is concerned with representing things as they actually are or as they are normally seen. (Cf. idealism.)

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Realism

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