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Rubens
Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt
1609-10
- The skirt folds over his foot (sexual connotations indicating their union)
2
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de La Tour
The Newborn Child
1645
- Candle light hidden by St. Ann’s hand seems to be coming from Christ
3
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Honthorst
The Procuress
1625
- inspiration from Caravaggio (tenebrism and dark repoussoir figure)
- unlike Caravaggio the viewer can see the source of light
3
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Brugghen
The Calling of St. Matthew
1621
- figures are wearing contemporary clothing while Jesus and Peter are in biblical attire
- Brugghen lived in Rome same time as Caravaggio
3
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Hooch
The Linen Cupboard
1663
- supposed to depict the organized, concise, arranged household that tells a lot about Dutch society
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Kalf
Still Life with a Late-Ming Jar
1669
- the peeled lemon is his thing or trick
- Dutch are strict and religious, they also enjoy their wealth
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Rembrandt
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1666-68
- protagonist is being shown in the after effect of his loose living, normally not depicted this way)
5
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Vermeer
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
1664-65
- getting away from a tonal palette and based this painting on triad of primary colors
6
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Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1642
- not original title
- gold woman is possible otherworldy symbol of the group (chicken for Frans Banning Coq), bird talons are insignia of the group
- also was added in later probably to balance out the man in black with the man in gold
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Borch
Parental Admonition
1654-55
- considered a scene where her father’s scolding her and telling her how to be a respectable young lady
- possibly a brothel scene but doesn’t fit expectations of one
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Rubens
The Garden of Love
1630-32
- sky and landscape influenced by Venetian painting
9
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Saenredam
Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem
1636-37
- called his paintings perspectives
- originally a Catholic church but was white washed and stain glass removed
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de La Tour
The Cheat with Ace of Diamonds
1603-04
- Smooth flesh and extreme attention to detail in the fabric shows it is Northern
- indirectly influenced by Caravaggio
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Rubens
The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus
1618
- Female figure poses can be taken from ancient statues/high Renaissance drawings
13
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Hals
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse
1664
- Hals was 80 when he painted this, the handling of the paint is even looser (possibly because of age, wisdom, or both)
14
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Claesz
Vanitas Still Life
1630
- vanitas: vanity (more about passage of time)
- reminder of mortality
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Rembrandt
Self Portrait at the Age of Thiry-Four
1640
- pretty much a direct lift from the most famous high renaissance portraits:
- Titian, Man with the Blue Sleeve (form)
- Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (palette)
- also Leonardo’s sfumatto
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Vermeer
The Little Street
1657-58
- the cropping makes it look photographic
18
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Steen
Beware of Luxury
1663
- lady of the house fell asleep and all hell broke loose
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Le Brun
The Tent of Darius
1660-01
- Commissioned by Louis XIV
- Louis liked to drop in to see how it was coming
- Every single gesture can be threaded into the story of the painting
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Rubens
The Raising of the Cross
1610-11
- there is a painting on the outside of the left and right panels that can be scene when it is closed
- shows Italian influence
- Christ never before depicted in the the middle of the raising of the cross
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Hals
Officers and Sergeants of the St. Hadrian Civic Guard Company
1633
- early group portraits were stiff, boring, from the sholder up
- he has given them energy and life but with the table honors the old format
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Hals
Malle Babbe
1630-33
- has been called The Witch of Harlem
- has been regarded as a type yet she is a real person
- owl: witches, “drunk as an owl”, “owl of the night”
- Hal’s son had mental difficulties as well and he probably empathized with her
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Le Vau and Le Nôtre
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
1656-61
- Man’s dominance over the natural world
- Uclidian geometric formulas to plot the garden
25
**Rubens**
***The Arrival of Marie de'Medici at Marseilles***
**1622-25**
* one of 21, #6 in the series
* was commissioned to be done by only the hand of Rubens
26
**Lorrain**
***Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba***
**1648**
* Heavily influenced by Italian painting
27
**Vouet**
***Presentation in the Temple***
**1641**
* While they are monumental, full figures (high Renaissance/Roman Baroque) there is also a softness and delicacy (French)
28
**Le Vau and Le Brun**
***Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte***
***Salon à l’italienne***
**1656-61**
* lots of open space
29
**Rembrandt**
***Self-Portrait with Maulstick, Palette, and Brushes***
**mid 1660s**
* not wearing a costume
* accepting his mortality
* circles in the background: considered a great craftsman if you can draw a perfect circle free-handed like Giatto, comparing himself to Giatto
30
**The Le Nain Brothers**
***Peasant Family in an Interior***
**1645-48**
* When Dutch paintings had peasant scenes, they were more judging or mocking, but it was not like that in French peasant scenes
* Palette similar to The Stonebreakers
* Bread and wine: Eucharistic connotations
31
**Boucher**
***Madame de Pompadour***
**1756**
* represents the end of the old era and the beginning of the new
32
**Rigaud**
***Louis XIV***
**1701**
* Larger than life
* State portrait
* White fur is only allowed to be worn by royalty
* Portrait of the man, the kind, and the state
33
**Houdouin-Mansart and Le Brun**
***Hall of Mirrors***
***Palace of Versailles***
**1678-84**
* mirrors reflect sun coming from windows (sun king)
* meant to intimidate
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34
**Le Vau**
***Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Plan)***
**1656-61**
* apartment for the king is included
35
**Ruysch**
***Flower Still Life***
**after 1700**
* not all of the flowers are in bloom at the same time, revealing to the viewer that this is not real and there is a deeper meaning
* beauty passes and is fleeting
* poppy symbolizes eternal sleep
* bumble bee pollinating it brings new life
36
**Rembrandt**
***Christ Healing the Sick***
**1636**
* didn't destroy plate and people kept printing; knowing when the print was printed is important to the value
37
**Vermeer**
***The Concert***
**1665-66**
* while there is a marble flooring here, a private home very rarely had marble flooring
* painting a household he is painting their value, but we don't know if this is an accurate representation of living here at this time
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**Honthorst**
***The Merry Fiddler***
**1623**
* considered a genre painting or genre "portrait"
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