Warm-up 4-20-15
Ch 25 L1 North Baroque
Obj: SWBAT
describe how
Caravaggio and
Gentileschi
redefined
representation in
painting
Homework Due Today:
Ch 25 Cue Cards
Respond to the following:
1. What is tenebrism? What does it
represent?
2. What is the narrative of this work?
3. How does Artemisia Gentileschi make her
subject appear like a heroine?
Artemesia Gentileschi: Judith Slaying
Holofernes
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Caravaggi-oh no you did’ nt!
Tenebrism—sharply lit scenes with
a single light source and dark
background
Meaning?
Christ as the light of the world
Caravaggio: Judith
Slaying Holofernes
FEMALE ARTIST:
Artemesia Gentileschi: Judith Slaying Holofernes
Caravaggista
Raped at age 19
Became 1st female painter at
Florence Academy of Design
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Narrative: Judith, (old
testament heroine ) helps free
Israel by seducing an Assyrian
general. When inside his tent,
she cuts off his head with his
sword
Judith gains
physical/emotional strength to
sever a head,
Blood spurts out b/c heartbeat
Renders HEROINE instead of
the common heroes.
Triumph of women over men
FIGURE 24-21
ARTEMISIA
GENTILESCHI,
JUDITH SLAYING
HOLOFERNES, CA.
1614–1620. OIL ON
CANVAS, 6’ 6 1/3” X 5’
4”. GALLERIA DEGLI
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Chapter 25 - The Baroque in Northern Europe
• Explain why Baroque art in Flanders is more closely tied to the Baroque art
of Italy than is the art of much of the rest of northern Europe.
• Describe the role of Peter Paul Rubens in Flemish art and also in other
sphere of life in Flanders.
• Explain why painting in the Dutch Republic favored private
commissions of portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes
rather than the more traditional religious works of the previous
century.
• Give reasons for the abundance of luxury items represented in Dutch
painting, especially fine clothing and jewelry in portraits.
• Describe the work and career of Rembrandt van Rijn and be certain to
include reasons for his apparent failure as a business person at the end of
his life.
• Describe instances of pronounced kingly influence on art and architecture is
some parts of Europe.
• Explain how classical ideas and ideals survived in Northern Europe during
the Baroque; in what country is the survival most notable.
• Explain why architecture was the most important art form in England during
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the 17th century.
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HOMEWORK DUE TUES 4-21-15
1. What historical factors account for the large demand for secular artworks,
including genre scenes, still lifes, portraits and landscapes in the Dutch
Republic in the 17th century?
2. How does Gerrit van Honthorst’s “Supper Party” represent middle class
patronage?
3. Describe Rembrandt’s innovation in rendering light, in both paintings and in
prints.
4. Describe Jan Vermeer’s style and subject matter. What is camera obscura?
How did Vermeer use camera obscura?
17TH CEN (1600S) BAROQUE IN EUROPE
Baroque Essentials (South & North)
Complex—narrative/artistic skill
Still Life—inanimate objects
Moral Symbolism—vanitas, portraits
Grand Scale—architecture, sculpture
Ornamentation
Light—dramatic lighting
Drama—climatic moments
Northern Bourgeois Baroque: “Golden Age”
(merchant middle class butchers, bakers, & shoemakers)
• Dutch Republic = Protestant nation without an absolute ruler
• Lacking commissions from Catholic church, Dutch artists turn to
merchant class for commissions
• Specialized in PORTRAITURE and STILL-LIFE
• Portraiture (especially of groups)  new ways of capturing a new class
of patrons…Calvinists (who did NOT believe in religious imagery)
• Still-Life way for middle class Dutch to show pride in their
accomplishments AND transience (short, not lasting) of material things
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Dutch Republic: Pieter Claez- Vanitas (Still Life) 1630s
•Vanitas - still life reminds viewers of the transience (short, not lasting) of
“vanity”. materialism, reminder that death is ever-present
•Reveals Dutch pride in accomplishments  depiction of material goods
(worldwide trade)
•For Calvinist patrons, did not believe in overt religious imagery (protestant)
•still life reminds viewers of the transience of “vanity,” materialism. Reminder
that death is ever-present
• Interest in
scientific
accuracy
• Objects have
meaning: time,
human
achievement
• momento mori=
reminder of
mortality/death.
• artist
memorialized
himself in the
painting
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RACHEL RUYSCH, Flower
Still Life
CFU
1. How does this work represent
Calvinist beliefs?
Vanitas - still life reminds
viewers of the transience of
“vanity”
Beauty is fleeting, should not be
the focus of life
2. How does this work represent
Dutch achievements?
Botany
Dutch were growers and
exporters of flowers
Scientific accuracy
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RACHEL RUYSCH, Flower Still Life
Figure 24-57 RACHEL RUYSCH,
Flower Still Life, after 1700. Oil on canvas,
2’ 6” x 2’. The Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo (purchased with funds from the
Libbey Endowment, gift of Edward
Drummond Libbey).
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Peter Paul Rubens Elevation of the Cross –Flanders (Catholic)
Aristocrat w/ royal patrons, International star.
Themes: Religion and Passion
“Pan-European Style” --Combines Italian and Northern painting traditions
Narrative: Christ nailed to cross, muscular figures lifting cross
Strenuous exertion, physical and emotional tension and struggle
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Peter Paul Rubens Elevation of the Cross –Flanders (Catholic)
3. In terms of style, What’s Italian Renaissance or Baroque?
• Diagonals, dynamic comp., intense emotion, action and light of Caravaggio
• Twisting poses, muscular bodies heroicism like…Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel, classical drapery
4. In terms of style, What’s Northern?
• Rich colors, surface textures and details
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Exit Slip:
Describe Peter Paul Ruben’s PanEuropean style.
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Peter Paul Rubens
Marie de’ Medici (widow of King
Henry IV) commissioned Rubens to
paint the story of her life
Narrative: her arrival in France
Use of allegory (of France)
• “fleur-de-lis-man”,
• winged “fame” above,
• Sea and sky rejoice at her safe
arrival from Italy
• Soft, rich muted colors, varied
textures and forms =richness of
aristocratic taste
• GLORIFIES the patron
Figure 24-36 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Arrival
of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles,
1622–1625. Oil on canvas, approx. 5’ 1” x 3’ 9 1/2”.
Louvre, Paris.
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Flemish Baroque : Peter Paul Rubens
Triumph of the RUBENESQUE Female!
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