Baroque Art History Exam II

Utrecht

Catholic Dutch Reformed church

Pietro da Cortona

Cortona, 1596 - Rome, 1667 Painter Draftsman Architect Working in Rome by 1612 Sacchetti family Barberini family

Utrecht Caravaggisti

Dirck van Baburen Hendrick Terbruggen Gerrit von Honthorst -Italian experience -Influenced by Caravaggio

Rembrandt

July 15, 1606 - Leiden October 4, 1669 - Amsterdam

Bernini

Naples - Dec. 7, 1598 Rome - Nov. 28, 1680 Father: Pietro Bernini Did many artistic things: sculpture, painting, architecture, playwright, etc.

Bernini @ New St. Peter's

Tasked with designing the crossing niches - 1628 -Niches hold statues, niches above hold relic -4 niches - he does one, the other 3 by others

Peter Paul Rubens

b. 1577 Siegen, German d. 1640 Antwerp -1568- family fled Netherlands (Calvinists) -1591- back in Antwerp (Catholic), converts -1600- Mantua - Vicenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Rome