Week 10: Baroque in Spain c. 1600 - 1700

Juan de Pareja

• port city 17th century

• was conspired large population

• Parejo was a huge area for the slave trade

• social status differences

The Waterseller of Seville

• Artists Valazque was hired by the Spanish King to make official art for Spain after he liked his self potrait

• figure takes up lots of space

• wineseller is tan, and quite rich

• offering boy glass of water

• artists skilled at showing texture

• fig in water, only the rich would do that

• richness, in detail from the glass

• not looking at each other, shows differences in social classes

• another man in the back (young adult) drinking

• three different ages

• daily life in the paint

• no art in the background

• Badegon = tavern

• light hits the body

• Naturialism & realism, not idealism

• we feel invited to feel the textures

Los Borrachos (The Drunks)

• some are interacting, others are posing

• Bachus the man crowning someone

• man and hat and in other are looking at us

• Bachus: god who brings wine to make ppl happy

• Greek gods interacting humans

• Bachus skin is paler since he was not working a drinking

• the humans had a rougher life the Bachus

• Diego travwlwd to Italy (Spain at the time got de influenced)

• Diego is less idealized, no muscle

Vulvan’s Forge:

• Apollo: god of sun

• Lorals on head represents Daphne (loral tree)

• vulcan god of fire/forge/ and smith work

• vulcan is muscular, not large, tense while seeing Apollo

• Apollo told Vulcan that his wife is cheating on him

• men working with Vulcan reacting to the news

• Look at Volcsn to see his reaction

Philip IV of Spain in Brown and Silver

• artists style changed dramatically

• first painting of king got lost

• Spain royal family died out due to incest

• signature on paper

Queen Maria Anna

• rich fabric

• with one dot of color, it brings out the light in objects

Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)

• most famous

• ppl still unsure what this is

• guy in te back

• self potrait

• we are the painter

• mirror

• Queen and King are getting painted; daughter looking at them

• playful

• entrago: ppl who accompted the princesses

• red cross on chest, it was an order that only the wealthy had

• dog is a companion to the girl

• Dieg owned the “Juan de Pareja” man

• guy was a slave

• dignity byt sadness

• juan was a painter

The Martyrdom of Saint Philip

• Saint is being lifted up

• Jesus reference

• figure is not idealized

• looking up, tired, physical body

• lack of compassion

The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion

• apart of the army

• Europeans started exploring the Americas

• In contact with Islamic ideas

• push away Muslim people

• Christian resurgence

• order send their member to save captured Christianity

• Multiform tied with ropes

• Jesus reference

• white thin tunic to not show the body

• went to Northern Africa for the ransom