Unit 3.4: Baroque/Northern Renaissance

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<p>Entombment of Christ</p>

Entombment of Christ

Artist: Jacopo da Pontormo

Period/Movement: Mannerism

Medium: Oil on wood

Location: Florence, Italy

Significance: chaotic figures, constant movement, stylized, elongated, mannerism: unnatural complex compositions

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<p>Allegory of Law and Grace</p>

Allegory of Law and Grace

Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Period/Movement: High Renaissance North

Medium: Woodcut and letterpress

Location: Germany

Significance: propaganda during Reformation, meant to show two points of view (right: protestants, left: catholics), recurring patterns on both sides

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<p>Self-portrait with Saskia</p>

Self-portrait with Saskia

Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn

Period/Movement: Dutch Baroque

Medium: Etching

Location: Amsterdam

Significance: printmaking—mass distribution, shows a husband and wife, tribute to his wife who passed in her 20-30s, chiaroscuro (light and dark)

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<p>Hunters in the Snow</p>

Hunters in the Snow

Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Period/Movement:

Medium: Oil on wood

Location: Netherlands

Significance: part of a six-panel scene of different times in the year, shows daily routines (captures struggles and joy of winter season),

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<p>Woman Holding a Balance</p>

Woman Holding a Balance

Artist: Johannes Vermeer

Period/Movement: Dutch Baroque

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Netherlands

Significance: genre scene, domestic realm, balance— The Last Judgement, Vermeer’s power of illusion, mirror: material wealth, camera obscura: a tool that reflects light to show an image (depicts early forms of photography)

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<p>Fruit and Insects</p>

Fruit and Insects

Artist: Rachel Ruysch

Period/Movement: Dutch Baroque

Medium: Oil on wood

Location: Florence, Italy

Significance: still life, vanitas: still life genre reminder of mortality: suggestion of temporary nature, microscopic organisms

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<p>Calling of Saint Matthew</p>

Calling of Saint Matthew

Artist: Caravaggio

Period/Movement:

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Rome, Italy

Significance: tenebrism— diagonal light (symbolizing holy spirit, unusual setting for Jesus, Jesus walks into a bar and points to Matthew (a disciple of Jesus → the saints were common people)

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<p>Il Gesú</p>

Il Gesú

Artists: Giacomo da Vignola, Giacomo della Porta, and Giovanni Battista Gaulli

Period/Movement: Baroque

Medium: Ceiling fresco

Location: Rome, Italy

Significance: volutes, rounded pediments, curvilinear, facade— to give the illusion as if building is much bigger, gold detail, plastered murals, suggests classical architecture

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<p>San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane</p>

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Artist: Borromini

Period/Movement: Italian Ba

Medium: Stone and stucco

Location: Rome, Italy

Significance: based on an abstraction of the cross-shape; Greek cruciform but more abstract, dedicated to Saint Carlos, built in columns, high relief

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<p>Ecstasy of Saint Teresa</p>

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Period/Movement: Baroque

Medium: Marble (sculpture), Stucco and gilt bronze (chapel)

Location: Cornaro Chapel: Rome, Italy

Significance: dramatic, exaggerated, drapery, angel and Saint Teresa, gold arrow toward Saint Teresa, union of the world, Bernini's comeback after his scandal with mistress

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<p>Las Meninas</p>

Las Meninas

Artist: Diego Velázquez

Period/Movement: Spanish Baroque

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Madrid, Spain

Significance: use of mirrors, artist portrait, infanta: princess/future of Spain, dog= loyalty, non-religous, genre scene

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<p>Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici </p>

Henri IV Receives the Portrait of Marie de’ Medici

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens

Period/Movement: Flemish Baroque

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Belgium

Significance: Part of Medici Cycle: show Medici achievements, Christian imagery, nude women (god(dess)) — modesty doesn’t apply, allegorical figure: Marie is the symbol of France, political power, Henry IV presented the picture of Marie

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<p>The Palace at Versailles</p>

The Palace at Versailles

Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Period/Movement: French Baroque

Medium: Masonry, stone, wood, iron, gold leaf (architecture); marble, bronze (sculpture

Location: Versailles, France

Significance: symmetrical, gardens, lots of rooms, very elongated, VERY baroque (gold), King Louis XIV decided to build a new palace → example of nobility

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<p>Self Portrait </p>

Self Portrait

Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

Period/Movement: Rococo-Neoclassicism

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Florence, Italy

Significance: painter for Marie Antionette, shows her skills, women could only do women portraits, portrait of her smiling → not common to see a smile (Elisabeth encouraged her models to smile)

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<p>The Swing</p>

The Swing

Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Period/Movement: Enlightenment/Rococo

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: France

Significance: Rococo (Baroque + extra!), man (chaperone) who is pulling the swing with ropes (older), NOT carefree -- more scary/dark/unknown, Fragonard stylemaiden in garden, cupid whispering that man below is her lover