Art in the Era of Absolutism Baroque Art: 17th Century Art of the Monarchs, late Reformation and Counter Reformation Religious in Italy, Spain and France.

Art in the Era of Absolutism

Baroque Art: 17th Century• Art of the Monarchs, late Reformation and Counter

Reformation• Religious in Italy, Spain and France• More Secular in the North, England

Rococo Art: 1730’s-1770’s• Most popular in France and Germany• Emphasize grace and gentle movement

• What do you notice about the music? Can you connect to the historic time period?

Baroque Art• 1600 – 1750.• From Portuguese: “barocca,” meaning “a pearl of irregular shape.”• Implies strangeness, irregularity, & extravagance.• The more dramatic, the better• Strong diagonals and use of light.• Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark.• Counter-Reformation art.• Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than the well-informed.• Ecclesiastical art; appeal to emotions.

Counter Reformation BaroqueItaly: 1590-1680 religious works; church patron; drama,

intensity, movement

• Caravaggio

• Atremesia Gentileschi

• Bernini

Spain: 1625-1660 court portraits; monarch patron; realistic, dignity

• Velazquez

Belgium/Flemish: 1600-1640 altarpieces; church and monarch patrons; florid style; sensuality

• Rubens

• Van Dyck

The Conversion of St Paul

Ecstasy of St. Teresa

Bernini1647

Comparing Renaissance and Baroque- Michelangelo’s David and Bernini’s

David

David Michaelangelo 1504 David Bernini 1623

The Landing of Marie de Medici at Marsailles

Rubens1623

Charles I, King of England at the

Hunt

Anthony van Dyck1635

Dutch Golden Age1630-1670 people are patrons; visual accuracy; studies of light

Still Life’s• Claesz• Heda• Heem

Landscape• Ruisdael• Cuyp

Genre and Portrait• Hals• Rembrandt• Maes• Vermeer• Steen

The Nightwatch

(detail)

Rembrandt1642

Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials of the Drapers Guild 1662

1660 Self Portraits 1669

The Milkmaid

Vermeer1658

France Baroque into Rococo

Baroque 1670-1715 classical landscapes; decorative architecture; monarch patron; pretentious style; order and ornament

• Claude Lorrain• George La Tour• Pierre PugetRococo 1725-1775 ornate, shell-like, playful, sinuous; ornate

architecture and palaces; monarchy and nobility; • Watteau• Chardin• Boucher• Fragonard

Pilgrimage to Cythera Watteau 1717