Baroque - Patrons + significance

Patron : works + brief bio

Scipione Borghese

Apollo and Daphne (Bernini); Portrait Bust of Scipione Borghese (Bernini); Villa Borghese (Ponzio & Vasanzio)

• Nephew of Pope Paul V, papal nepotism - official position of “Cardinal Nephew” - in charge of Borghese and catholic church’s finances - thus funded and commissioned lots of art both for himself and for the church

Tiberio Cerasi

The Crucifixion of St Peter (Caravaggio)

• general treasurer to Pope Clement VIII

• for Cerasi Chapel - PR stunt of both Carracci and Caravaggio (literally the Baroque girl, so confusing remix)

Mercedarian Order of Seville

The Martyrdom of St. Serapion (Zurbaran)

• religious/religious purpose - Serapion was a founder of this order

Jesuit Order/ Cardinal Camillo Pamphili/ Pope Alexander VII

St Andrea al Quirinale (Bernini)

• place to serve for Jesuit Novitiates

Mateo Vazquez de Leca (Archdeacon of Carmona)

Christ of Clemency (Montanes and Pacheco)

• specified lots of the details - i.e. Jesus being alive

Marchese Vincenzo Guistiani

Amor Vincit Omnia/ Victorious Cupid (Caravaggio)

• repeated ‘v’ form to celebrate the patron

• kept behind a green silk curtain (allegedly) to show certain guests

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Milo De Croton (Puget)

Nicholas Fouquet

Vaux-le-Vicomte (Le Vau)

• embezzler

• made to impress the King - whole wing dedicated to him

Queen Anne of Austria

Val de Graçe (Mansart and Lemercier)

• celebrate the ‘miracle’ birth of her son, dedicated partially to Mary and thus Motherhood

• fleur-de-lis celebrating the French royal family

Gift from Cardinal del Monte to Cardinal Borromeo

Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio)

(calling card to announce skill prior to move to Madrid and working for King Phillip)

Still life with Lemons (Zurbaran)

Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine bought the work later

Daughters of Leucippus (Rubens)

• political tensions in Netherlands - 30 years war - violence of leaders

Rubens (made himself)

Het Steen in the early morning (Rubens), The Artist and his Wife under a Honeysuckle Bower (Rubens)