↑Rembrandt 1640’s?
Dürer, 1524
→
↑ Raphael, detail of St. Cecilia, 1514, Bologna
↑ Velazquez, detail, Las Meninas, 1656/7, Prado
Andrea del Sarto, 1528, Pitti ↑
Titian, 1559-62, S. Salvadore, Venice →
Piero della Francesca
Annunciation
c. 1455
Fresco, 329 x 193 cm
San Francesco, Arezzo
Poussin
Holy Family on the Steps
1648
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rubens
The Holy Family with St Anne
c. 1628
Oil on canvas, 115 x 90 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Perhaps one of the longest, most divisive, art controversies took place in France during the
mid-1800s. The two camps were called the Poussinistes and the Rubenistes after their titular
idols, Nicholas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens. The Poussinistes proclaimed the primacy of
drawing and draftsmanship in painting while the Rubenistes argued that color should rule the
day. The Poussinistes followed the well-worn path of classical art from Greek and Roman
antiquities up through the Renaissance. The Rubenistes adored the vibrant colors and
aggressive brushstrokes of the more recent Baroque artists.
Actually, Poussin and Rubens themselves had little or nothing to do with the controversy. The
real protagonists were Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres (pronounced Ang) and Eugene
Delacroix (pronounced Dela-qua). Ingres had been a student of the outstanding classical
master-painter Jacques-Louis David (pronounced Da-veed) and was 18 years older than his
rival. The competition between the two split the French Royal Academy of Painting and
Sculpture down the middle and continued largely unabated from the early 1820s until both
men died in the mid-1860s. Of course by that time, the young Turks of Impressionism were
deciding the whole matter was something of a moot point anyway. And while they might tend
toward The Rubenistes color theories and painting techniques, they hated the academic
arguments and classical subject matter of BOTH camps. http://users.1st.net/jimlane/98arch/5-6-98.htm
Ingres
Delacroix
The Turkish Bath
Algerian Women in Their Apartments
1862
1834
Musee du Louvre
Musee du Louvre
J. M. W. Turner
Shipwreck, the Rescue, c1802
Location?
Turner
Procession of Boats with Distant Smoke, Venice
c. 1845; Oil on canvas, 90 x 120.5 cm;
Tate Gallery, London
Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1843
William Holman Hunat, Our English Coasts, 1852 (Strayed Sheep) Tate