Baroque Art-3
Hapsburg Spain
Artist: Jusepe de
Ribera
Title: Martyrdom
of Saint
Bartholomew
Medium: Oil on
canvas
Size: 41¼ X 44⅞"
(1.05 X 1.14 m)
Date: 1634
Known as
Little Spaniard
Is the link to
Caravaggio's
style to
Zurbaran and
Velázquez
Tenebrism
Martyr of
St.
Bartholomew
Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán
Title: Saint Serapion
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 47½ X 40¾" (120.7 X 103.5 cm)
Date: 1628
Also horrifying martyrdom
Artist: Juan Sánchez Cotán
Title: Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon,
and Cucumber
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 27⅛ X 33¼" (68.8 X 84.4 cm)
Date: c. 1602
Late 1600th century
Spanish painter begin to
really create still life's
Geometric setting
Organic shapes
By hanging the pieces it
exemplifies the Spanish
painters obsession with
spatial ambiguity
No idea what the niche
is? Or why objects are
arranged so.
Artist: Diego Velázquez
Title: Water Carrier of Seville
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41½ X 31½" (105.3 X 80 cm)
Date: c. 1619
Early work was influenced by Caravaggio and
tenebrism
Liked to work from models and display some
of the ordinary life of people
Took pride in incorporating still lifes into his
works
Like to show precise volume and textures in a
more naturalist light setting
Glossy , translucent finishes Verses MATTEdull finish
After early work became a court painter in
Madrid for Phillip IV
Artist: Diego Velázquez
Title: The Surrender At Breda (The Lances)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 10'⅞" X 12'½" (3.07 X 3.67 m)
Date: 1634–35
Peter Paul Rubens
convinced King he should
visit Italy to improve his
style
Theme is truimph and
conquest- unlike typically
propaganda
Gentlemanly behavior
Dutch commander Nassau
hands over the Keys to
Spain
Mass portraits and
crowds, landscape, and
lighting work…. Shows his
tricks
Artist: Diego Velázquez
Title: Las Meninas (The Maids
of Honor)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 10'5" X 9'½”
Date: 1656
Huge portrait, draws viewer
down into the action
Who’s vantage point are we
using?
Focus goes to Margarita the
princess who is 5 and the
attendants that surround her
Does not do an under
painting but instead builds
up layer upon layer of paint
then finishes with highlighted
areas
Self-portrait
(dignity/importance)
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Title: The Immaculate Conception
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 7'8" X 6'5" (2.35 X 1.96 m)
Date: c. 1645–50
Counter reformation authoriites
made a strict rule for paint the
virgin
Wears white and blue, hands
folded in prayer
Angels many carry symbols of
her
She can be bathed in light
She may stand in the clouds
Paintings like this would be
shipped where?
The Southern Netherlands and
Flanders
Artist: Peter Paul
Rubens
Title: The Raising of
the Cross
Medium: Oil on
canvas
Size: center panel
15'1⅞" X 11'1½"
(4.62 X 3.39 m) each
wing 15'1⅞" X 4'11"
(4.62 X 1.52 m)
Date: 1610–11
Source/ Museum:
Church of Saint
Walpurga, Antwerp,
Belgium
Enter Antwerp painters guild as a older teen, Worked in every major Italian city, and
Madrid
The wings are an extension of the central panel, Herculean figures strain to haul upright
Christ on the cross, at right the soldiers supervise, at left the ladies and friends cry and
mourn,
baroque vs. Flemish style
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Title: Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of
Marie de’ Medici
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 12'11⅛" X 9'8⅛" (3.94 X 2.95 m)
Date: 1621–25
1 of 24, painted to portray Marie de’
Medici as an influence of the royalty
of France, and her life
This painting depicts the royal
engagement
Who accompanies Henry IV ?
Gods? Symbols?
These large scale paintings become
political propaganda
Artist: Anthony Van Dyck
Title: Charles I at the Hunt
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 8'11" X 6'11 (2.75 X 2.14 m)
Date: 1635
Source/ Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris
One of Rubens collaborators
Portraitst
Became an English court painter
Accurate record of features a
truthfully yet imposing figure
How is the King portrayed?
lets talk about his features….
Artist: Jan Brueghel and Peter Paul Rubens One of painted settings rather then portraits,
Title: Allegory of Sight
one of 5 senses, invites viewer to wander
Medium: Oil on wood panel
around the scene and take in everything
Size: 25⅝ X 43" (65 X 109 cm)
Rubens paintings are copied and placed
Date: c. 1617–18
around the room, Venus and Cupid painted by
Source/ Museum: From Allegories of the FiveRubens, “Those who look but can not see”
Senses. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Artist:
Clara
Peeters
Title: Still
Life with
Flowers,
Goblet,
Dried Fruit,
and Pretzels
Medium:
Oil on panel
Size: 20½ X
28¾" (52 X
73 cm)
Date: 1611
Still- life specialist and part of the guild
Breakfast pieces- still life showing things eaten at breakfast
Pretzels are baroque in nature why??
Northern Netherlands, United
Dutch Republic
•1625 patronage of the Arts improved through
the house of Orange
•Well educated people fascinated with history,
mythology, the bible, new scientific discoveries,
expansion and exploration
Artist: Hendrick ter Brugghen
Title: Saint Sebastian Tended By Saint
Irene
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 58 15⁄16 X 47½" (149.6 X 120 cm)
Date: 1625
The tending of Saint Sebastian by
Irene was a popular theme in
seventeenth-century art
indicative of a contemporary drive
to project Catholicism as a caring
faith
The extraordinary power and
pathos of Ter Brugghen's painting is
largely due to the compact
immediacy of the figures and
the artist's skilled manipulation of
eerie, crepuscular lighting effects.
Artist: Frans Hals
Title: Catharina Hooft and Her Nurse
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 33 ¾ X 25½" (85.7 X 64.8 cm)
Date: c. 1620
Love of realism and combined with
the Caravaggio style of Tenebrism
Like create optical effects with light
and textures
Up close you can see slashing
brush stokes and patches of paint
Far away your eyes blend it with the
light
Intimate portrait where the daughter
looks at the viewer like a loving
family member, while the nurse tries
to distract her with an apple
Why is she dressed like that?
Artist: Frans
Hals
Title: Officers
of the Haarlem
Militia
Company of
Saint Adrian
Medium: Oil
on canvas
Size: 6' X 8'8"
(1.83 X 2.67
m)
Date: c. 1627
Grouop portrait, not arranged neatly with darting diagonals and , gestures, banners, and
sashes,
Feels unorganized but balanced
What balanced the darting diagonals lines?
Artist: Judith Leyster
Title: Self-Portrait
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 29⅜ X 25⅝" (72.3 X 65.3 cm)
Date: 1635
One of Hals most successful
contemporaries
She was a teacher in the
Guild in 1633
She takes a moment from her
work to look back at the view
who has entered the room
The painting is a visual
pun…how?
Why is she wearing fancy
clothes?