Boroque and rococo

Frans Hals. The Jolly Toper

"burgher"

a genre painter

(represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.)

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia was raped by a friend of her father's, the painter Agostino Tassi. he promised to marry her, refused to fulfill his promise, dragged to court he was found guilty.

Cornaro Chapel

Bernini, Either side of the chapel sits sculptured figures in box seats

Cornaro Chapel

Bernini, lighted dramatically by sunlight streaming through a yellow- glass window revealing her emotional frenzy.

Cornaro Chapel

Bernini, resembles a small theater with box seats on both sides.

Cornaro Chapel

Bernini, vision of heaven, with angels and billowing clouds.

The calling of Matthew

Christ, His eyes veiled, with His halo the only hint of divinity, enters with Saint Peter. Levi draws back and gestures toward himself

Michelangelo Caravaggio

Developed tenebrous- dramatic use of intense darkness and light to heighten the impact of a painting Dark background; stage-like space

Michelangelo Caravaggio

He was stricken with malaria. He set off walking under the summer sun desperately trying to reach Rome. where absolution for the murder of Tomassioni was being arranged. He survived a day or two before dying.

Judith Leyster, Carousing Couple, 1630

Her work is unique because it is a bridge between Caravaggio and Jan Vermeer work and the genre scenes of Hals, Baroque female artist Genre painting

Diego Velazquez by ~Benbe

Naturalistic protrait, Went to Madrid - became court painter, it truly portrayed reality

four rivers fountain)

Navona Square bernini sculptures

Nicholas Poussin, The Ashes of Phokion, 1648

Phokion was a famous Athenian general o unjustly accused of treason, tried, and sentenced to death. The cremation or burial of his remains was outlawed. widow did not desert him. She is shown here gathering up her husband's ashes

Fountain of the Moor

Piazza Navona in Rome

fountain of neptune

Piazza Navona in Rome

Michelangelo Caravaggio

Received knighthood but three months later was in jail for insulting another knight. He escaped and fled to Sicily, then Naples where he was badly cut up in a brawl.

Barogue

The Age of Kings.'' emotion, energy, movement and colors are more vivid. Baroque favored ornamentation, as rich and complex as possible.

Rembrandt

The Night Watch Each person in the painting was to pay for their portrait in the painting. painting deemed as dirty, not a night scene. models paid commission according to how prominently he would appear in the painting.

Amor Victorious

The painting probably shows Earthly Love triumphant over the Virtues and Sciences,

Jan Vermeer. Girl With a Pearl Earring (1665),

Vermeer masterpiece His paintings are known for their "clear, clean light quality."

Carlo Maderno

an architect lengthened the nave and created a new facade. his death, Bernini continued the redecoration of the interior and designed a spectacular colonnade

Judith Decapitating Holofernes

by Caravaggio

baroque

c. 1600 - c. 1750, " The Age of Kings. emotion, energy, movement and colors are more vivid, favored ornamentation, as rich and complex as possible.

Michelangelo Caravaggio

church found out he used a prostituted for his Madonna paintings, which later was fished out of a river, decided to lessen the commissions.

Artemisia Gentileschi

dramatic way with light and dark was the influential invention of a painter named Caravaggio. Tenebrism

Caravaggio's

figures seem almost frozen in a moment of anguish, but Rubens' painting teems with movement and energy - the action continues beyond the painting - writhing S- curve of Christ's body is typically Baroque.

tenebrism

figures seemed to emerge from shadows

Confessio

immense Baldachino over the high altar of St. Peter's It is the largest sculpture in the world. 100 feet tall (Nine stories tall).

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

integrated architecture, painting, sculpture, and lighting. the funeral chapel

Frans Hals, Malle Babbe

introduced a jovial spirit that, Genre painting

Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas (Maids of Honor).

king and queen, whom we see reflected in a mirror on the far wall. They came to visit the artist in his studio,

Michelangelo Caravaggio

known for the extreme realism of his figures, Born 28 September 1571 - died 18 July 1610

Trevi In Rome

largest Baroque fountain

Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem, c.1670

limitless grandeur of nature - a contrast between the land— where human order has been established in the form of build-ings and cultivation

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

made colonnade made largest sculpture in the world

Cornaro Chapel

not a physical, but a spiritual pain,

Artemisia Gentileschi

paints strong assertive women. slaying Holofernes, which have been seen as her psychological revenge on Tassi. First version was painted a year after the public trial of her attacker

Michelangelo Caravaggio

purchased a young boy from the boy's parents - to become his lover, cursing the police, throwing stones, seriously wounded a notary, fled Rome, beat Tomassoni with tennis rackets and then in a dual, killed him.

tenebrism,

refer to a style of painting characterized by high contrast between light and shade - illuminated by a single source of light, as if a spotlight shone upon them, leaving other areas in darkness. Such pictures have been called "night pictures" painted in the "dark manner.") ,

Diego Velazquez by ~Benbe

reflection of the Maids of Honor in the eyes)

colonnade

row of columns

Rubens, The Raising of the Cross

similarities between these two paintings— in the sharply diagonal composition and dramatic lighting— but we also find several differences

Nicolas Poussin, The Funeral of Phocion

specialized in subjects from Classical antiquity

Judith Leyster, Self Portrait, 1635

stopped working as a professional painter after her marriage , a genre painter

Amor Victorious

subject detaching himself from mere mortals who must obey the laws of nature, mocking the world

Michelangelo Caravaggio

the calling of matthew

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

the completion of St. Peter's, which had been designed by Michelangelo completion of St. Peter's, which had been designed by Michelangelo

Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith and Maid servant with the Head of Holofernes. 1625

volunteered to rescue her people from the invading armies of the Assyrian general

Artemisia Gentileschi

was influenced by Caravaggio's use of realism and tenebrism

Jan Vermeer. Woman Holding a Balance. 1664

weighing her gold and pearls. the Last Judgment silhouettes Just as Christ weighs souls, so the woman tests a balance and is held in balance mirror on the wall in front of her reflects a search for self-knowledge.

sfumato (sfü-'mä-tO)

which is different than (literally smoke, a hazy softening of outlines)