ART 113F ARTHI 6B 6C Jaime Perez 1 BAROQUE ART Portugese barroco irregular shaped pearl A style of complexity drama dynamism and extravagance 17TH CENTURY EUROPE THE SHIFTING GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE More Than 30 Years of War Bourbon dynasty of France Habsburg dynasties of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire Abandoned idea of a united Christian Europe and replaced by realities of secular political systems The Development of a Worldwide Market Worldwide Mercantilism Increased disposable income Growth of moneyed class contributed to the emergence of Rococo art style BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY ITALY Much of Italian Baroque art was propaganda to restore Catholicism s Gianlorenzo Bernini Piazza of Saint Peter s Vatican City Rome Italy dominance and centrality Welcoming the Pious in Rome 1656 1667 A Soaring Bronze Canopy 1624 1633 Gianlorenzo Bernini Baldacchino of Saint Peter s Vatican City Rome Italy o Patron Pope Urban VIII Barberini family bees A Sophisticated Stairway Design Gianlorenzo Bernini Scala Regia Vatican City Rome Italy 1663 1666 o Patron Pope Alexander VII Decisive Physical Action Gianlorenzo Bernini David 1623 marble An Ecstatic and Radiant Vision Gianlorenzo Bernini Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Cornaro Chapel Santa Maria della Vittoria Rome Italy 1645 1652 marble The Light of Divine Revelation Caravaggio Conversion of Saint Paul Cerasi Chapel Santa Maria del Popolo Rome Italy 1601 oil on canvas From Tax Collector to Disciple Caravaggio Calling of Saint Matthew Contarelli Chapel San Luigi dei Francesi Rome Italy 1597 1601 oil on canvas Presenting Christ s Body Caravaggio Entombment Chapel of Pietro Vittrice Santa Maria in Vallicella Rome Italy 1603 oil on canvas ART 113F ARTHI 6B 6C Jaime Perez 2 Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Slaying Holofernes 1614 1620 oil on canvas In Caravaggio s Footsteps BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY SPAIN The Flaying of a Saint Jos de Ribera Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew 1639 oil on canvas An In uential Court Painter Celebrating a Spanish Victory Diego Vel zquez Water Carrier of Seville 1619 oil on canvas Diego Vel zquez Surrender of Breda 1634 1635 oil on canvas Portraying Royalty Of Art and Royal Life Diego Vel zquez King Philip IV of Spain 1644 oil on canvas Diego Ve zquez Las Meninas The Maids of Honor 1656 oil on canvas BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY FLANDERS Spanish emperor Charles V gave Netherlandish provinces Philip II who was oppressive to Protestants which led to a fission and the creation of the Dutch Republic A Pan European Synthesis Peter Paul Rubens Elevation of the Cross Antwerp Cathedral Antwerp Belgium 1610 oil on panel Drawing on the Masters Peter Paul Rubens drawing of Laco n 1600 1608 b w chalk Peter Paul Rubens Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles 1622 1625 oil An Extravagant Arrival on canvas Protesting War Peter Paul Rubens Allegory of the Outbreak of War 1638 oil on canvas BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY THE DUTCH REPUBLIC A Surgical Lesson Rembrandt Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp 1632 oil on canvas Rembrandt The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq Night Watch An Energetic Group Portrait 1642 oil on canvas Celebrating Christ s Huminility An Illuminating Self Portrait Rembrandt Return of the Prodigal Sun 1665 oil on canvas Remdrandt Self Portrait 1659 1660 oil on canvas Compassion Memorably Etched Rembrandt Christ with Sick around Him Receiving the Children Hundred Guilder Print 1649 etching ART 113F ARTHI 6B 6C Jaime Perez 3 Home Is Where the Heart Is Jan Vermeer The Letter 1666 oil on canvas The Science and Poetry of Light Jan Vermeer Allegory of the Art of Painting 1670 75 oil on canvas Satirizing Dutch Life Jan Steen The Feast of Saint Nicholas 1660 65 oil on canvas BAROQUE ART OF THE 17TH CENTURY FRANCE Invoking Classical Order Nicholas Poussin Et in Arcadia Ego 1655 oil on canvas A Plutarchian Scene Nicholas Poussin Burial of Phocion 1648 oil on canvas Realism Spiritualism Classicism Georges de la Tour Adoration of the Shepherds 1645 50 oil on canvas Art in the Service of Absolutism Hyacinthe Rigaud Louis XIV 1701 oil on canvas ROCOCO THE FRENCH TASTE A Delicate Dancer Celebrating the Good Life A Playful Rococo Fantasy o the butt man An Intriguing Flirtation Antoine Watteau L Indiff rent 1716 oil on canvas Antoine Watteau Return from Cythera 1717 19 oil on canvas Fran ois Boucher Cupid a Captive 1754 oil on canvas Jean Honor Fragonard The Swing 1766 oil on canvas THE ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIETY Isaac Newton and empiricism do things with science John Locke and the born naturally good tabula rasa Denis Diderot and the Encyclopedia THE ENLIGHTENMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Voltaire hated the despotic rule of kings privileges of nobility and clergy religious intolerance the old order The Wonders of the Universe Joseph Wright of Derby A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrey 1763 65 oil on canvas Voltaire Versus Rousseau Science versus the Taste for the Natural Voltaire salvation of humanity through advancement of science and rational Rousseau the arts sciences society and civilization had corrupted natural improvement of society man ART 113F ARTHI 6B 6C Jaime Perez 4 o human capacity for feeling sensibility and emotions came before reason The Taste for the Natural in France Jean Baptiste Sim on Chardin Grace at Table 1740 oil on canvas The Taste for the Natural in Colonial America General Wolfe s Heroic Death Benjamin West The Death of General Wolfe 1771 oil on canvas The Revival of Interest in Classicism Neoclassicism incorporated the subjects and styles of ancient art The excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii and the eruption of Mount Vesuvius NEOCLASSICISM IN FRANCE Planting the Seeds of Glory A Martyred Revolutionary Napoleon s Ascendance Roman Grandeur in France Jacques Louis David Oath of the Horatii 1784 oil on canvas Jacques Louis David The Death of Marat 1793 oil on canvas Jacques Louis David The Coronation of Napoleon 1805 1808 oil on canvas Jacques Germain Soufflot the Pantheon Paris France 1755 1792 A Napoleonic Temple of Glory Pierre Vignon La Madeleine Paris France 1807 1842 NEOCLASSICISM IN THE UNITED STATES Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville Virginia 1770 1806 THE RISE OF ROMANTICISM A Nightmarish Vision Inspired by the Spirits Henry Fuseli The Nightmare 1781 oil on canvas William Blake Ancient of Days of Europe A Prophecy 1794 metal relief Francisco Goya The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos etching hand colored Dramatic Actions Emotion and Color Reconsidering