European Art & Culture
th
in the 17 Century
Unit One/Ch. 15
AP European History
Mannerism
Break down of
Renaissance principles
(balance, harmony,
moderation)
Deliberate distortion
Michelangelo, Pontormo,
Parmigianino, El Greco
Venus, Cupid, Folly and
Time by Bronzino, c.
1545; National
Gallery, London.
Jacopo Pontormo,
Entombment, 1528
Santa Felicita
Florence, Italy
Giambologna, Rape of the
Sabine Women, 1583,
Florence, Italy
El Greco, Laocoon, 1614, National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C.
Baroque
Began in Rome in late
16thC
Catholic Reformation
Classical ideals with
spiritual feeling
Peter Paul Rubens
The Last Judgement
1617
Peter Paul Rubens
(1577 – 1640)
Peter Paul Rubens
The Lion Hunt
1621
Peter Paul Rubens
The Disembarkation at
Marseilles
1625
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
(1598 – 1680)
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
1652
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Rome, Italy
Piazza San Pietro
1667
Vatican City
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, 1651
Piazza Navona
Rome, Italy
Baldacchino, 1623 - 34
St. Peter’s Basilica
Caravaggio (1572 – 1610)
The Crucifixion of Saint
Peter, 1601. Cerasi
Chapel, Santa Maria del
Popolo, Rome.
Conversion of Saint Paul,
1601, Cerasi Chapel,
Santa Maria del Popolo,
Rome.
Trevi Fountain, 1762 Nicola Salvi Rome, Italy
French Classicism
17th C – France replaced
Italy as cultural leader of
Europe
Return to classical values
of High Renaissance
Louis XIV’s Style –
Versailles
Nicolas Poussin
The Death of Germanicus
1628
Dutch Realism
Coincided with Golden
Age
Realistic portrayal of
everyday secular life
Johannes Vermeer (1632 –
1675), Rembrandt van
Rijn (1606 – 1669)
Judith Leyster
A Boy and the Girl with an Eel
and at Cat
Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1642
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Syndics of the Drapers Guild
1662
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Vermeer
The Geographer
1669
Frankfurt, Germany
Girl with a Pearl Earing
1665
The Hague
European Theatre
Elizabethan England 
William Shakespeare
Spain  Lope de Vega
France  Racine, Moliere