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Essay Question 1: Discuss the role of art in the early modern court with reference to three places we have looked at in class
Rubens, The Disembarkation at Marseilles, Van Dyck, Charles I and His Family and Valesquez, Las Mineas

Rubens, The Disembarkation at Marseilles
24-painting Marie de' Medici Cycle, commissioned for Queen Marie de' Medici, France’s welcoming her to the court

Velázquez, Las Meninas
A depiction of Infanta Magarita Theresa of Spain, Daughter of King Philip IV and Mariana of Austria

Van Dyck, Charles I and His Family (The Great Piece)
King Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, Prince Charles II and Princess Mary

Rubens, Susanna and the Elders, 1609-1610
An active attempt to flee the situation, the elders touch her back

Rembrandt, Susanna and the Elders, 1647
A directive gaze, body in motion

Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, 1610
Personal connection as she was raped by her art tutor, Agostino Tassi, and subsequently endured a brutal public trial with her being tortured throughout
Mary Gerrard notes in expressing these differences that Gentileschi’s depiction of Susanna as not
sexually available and responsive female to an emotionally distressed young woman, whose vulnerability is emphasized in the awkward twisting of her body
Charles I was a stuart King and married to
Henrietta Maria of Austria
King Philip IV of Spain and Queen Mariana of Austria had a daughter named
Infanta Margarita Theresa
Margarita Theresa was the subject of what work?
Velázquez, Las Mineas
What does depicting a royal child in the work prove to the viewer?
The health and continued lineage of the royal family
Rubens emphasises Marie de Medici image in The Disembarkation at Marseilles by
By blending real people with the mythological sea gods and sirens so her arrival feels extravagent and divine
Artemisia Gentileschi was a
Italian painter and follower of Caravaggio style
Rubens was a Flemish artist who
Painted for several different courts across Europe
Rembrandt was a Dutch artist