Title: Flower Still Life
Artist: Ruysch
Period: Dutch Baroque
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- Vanitas
- flowers past prime
- not perfect
- impossible bouquet-flowers don’t all blossom at the same time-father was a botanist
- starting to shrivel
- insects
Symbolism: Vanitas-you can’t take it with you
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Title: Entombment
Artist: Carvaggio
Period: Italian Baroque
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- Model for Christ has dirty feet
- Sense of real emotion
- Virgin is older
- tries to involve the viewer
Symbolism: transubstantiation- sacrament becomes the blood & body
Subject: About to lay body in tomb
Title: David
Artist: Bernini
Period: Italian Baroque
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- In motion, about to let rock go
- face is determined, concentrating
- semi-draped
- stereomorphic
- armor of Saul as support-ties back to story
- stone looks like flesh
- dramatic
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Title: Flight Into Egypt
Artist: Carraci
Period: Italian Baroque
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- generalized light source
- supposed to looke like Jerusalem, but really just outside Rome
- beautiful even w/out figures-excuse to paint the landscape
- idealized
- narrative scene-landscape takes presidence
- man is at one with the landscape-innovated by Carraci
- soft atmospheric perspective
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Subject: Holy family fleeing to Egypt
Title St. Serapion
Artist: Zurbaran
Period: Spanish Baroque
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- Intense naturalism
- tenebrism is strong
- naturalism of drapery
- good shadowing
- paper identifies the saint-foreshortening makes it look like an actual paper pinned to painting
- Off Canvas light source-stron illumination, dark shadows
- Caravaggisiti
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Title:Elevation of the Cross
Artist: Rubens
Period: Northern Baroque
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- Caravaggisti- more elements than copy
- lots of different influences- he traveled a lot
- strong bodies-Michaelangelo
- realism of particulars-Nor. Ren.
- strong colors-nor. ren.
- robust woment
- strong diagonal lines
- emotion
- dramatic
- staged, but naturalistic
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Title: Las Meninas
Artist: Velazquez
Period: Spanish Baroque
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- painted in his studio @ the palace
- self portrait
- King & Queen in the mirror-the viewers
- unsure what he is painting
- informal portrait
- she orginally held an orb-power (queen later had a son & gave the power to him)
- painting was reworked to remove orb and add the Order of Santiago Cross-he has become a member of the court
- face is closely painted, rest is loose
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Subject:
- Dwarfs-common to be part of a royal palace-responsible for children-on their level
- Inspired impressionism
Title: Still Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar
Artist: Kalf
Period: Dutch Baroque
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- valuable objects
- elaborate
- imported items
- light reflecting through glas
Symbolism: vanitas
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Title: The Supper Party
Artist: von Honthorst
Period: Dutch Baroque
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- Caravaggisti
- hidden light source-faces reflected
- tenebrism
Symbolism: Moral intimations-warning against sins of the flesh
Subject:
Title: View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen
Artist: van Ruisdad
Period: Dutch Baroque
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Style:
- low horizon line
- sunlight through clouds
- strips of linen on grass-linen factory
- Cathedral in distance- religion is important
- pools of light draws the eye
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Title: Et in Arcadia Ego
Artist: Poussin
Period: French Baroque
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- Most classical of the period
- academic style- had to be familiar with phylosophy & trends
- Caracci influence
- beautiful landscape
- clearly defined foreground, middle, back
- doesn’t connect with their lives
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Subject: Shepherds find tombstone- Why is there death in Arcadia? I, too, sought peace.
Title: Family of Court People
Artist: Le Nain
Period: French Baroque
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- Carvaggisti-light fromright
- religious undertones
- people have a dignity you don’t expect-probably formerly rich
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Title: Adoration of the Shepherds
Artist: de la Tour
Period: French Baroque
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- Carvaggisti
- Virgin in red
- hidden candle light source
- simplified forms
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