BaroqueBaroque1600-1750

France & Holland

Poussin

• French, worked in Rome to be among antiquities• a man of the past & future (a Renaissance soul born into a Baroque-era body)• works and writings articulate values of French

Academic painting: serious, formal• hated the works of Caravaggio

Nicolas PoussinThe Holy Family on the Steps1648

p. 282

Nicolas Poussin Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655

Oil on canvas; 49 1/2 x 65 in.

Rubens,The Rape

of the Daughters

of Leucippus

c. 1618

p. 282

Rubens,Descent from the Cross,

1611-1614

Rembrandt,Self-Portrait,

1640

Sortie of Capt Banning Cocq’s Company of the Civic GuardAKA “The Nightwatch”

-“theatrical” lighting- group portrait genre

Rembrandt,Self-Portrait,

1661

KEY IMAGE p 288

60+

Rembrandt

- begins to use impasto- realistic images need to be viewed from a distance

Vermeer

- acute observer of life- LIGHT- little known in his time- reputation grows in the 19th Century- only about 35 works identified

Vermeer,The Allegory of Painting,c. 1665-70

p. 285

Detail, The

Allegory

Vermeer,The

Milkmaid,c. 1658-60

KEY IMAGE p. 286

Vemeer

Woman holding a balance1664

Vermeer,Lady Writing a Letter with

her Maid,c. 1670

Ruysch, Flowers in a Vase, 1690

PREPARE TO DIE

Vanitas Still Life, 1603Jacques de Gheyn the Elder (Dutch, 1565–1629)

Earliest known vanitas

Still life – painting of inanimate objects

dates in the Baroque

1742 Handel’s Messiah oratorio

c. 1600

SUMMARY – BAROQUE ARTPOLITICS: emergence of The StateART: light, energy, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonalCHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-ReformationROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes tooIDEAS: scientific method