Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Baroque Art


Catholic Baroque


Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, from the Contarelli Chapel, Rome, Italian Baroque




Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Italian Baroque




Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, from the Cornaro Chapel, Rome, Italian Baroque




Gianlorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's Square, Italian Baroque




Gianlorenzo Bernini, Baldachino over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica, Italian Baroque





Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, Flemish Baroque





The Palace of Versailles, built for King Louis XIV of France, garden front, French Baroque




The Hall of Mirrors from the Palace of Versailles, French Baroque





Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), Spanish Baroque



Global Catholic Baroque


Giuseppe Castiglione, Landscape With Horses, China



Church of San Jose de la Laguna, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, USA





Dutch Protestant Baroque



Jan Vermeer, The Music Lesson, Dutch Baroque




Rembrandt, The Night Watch, Dutch Baroque




Rembrandt, Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul, Dutch Baroque




Rembrandt, "Hundred Guilder Print," etching, Dutch Baroque




BAROQUE ART

Catholic Baroque
Caravaggio
--tenebrism
Artemisia Gentileschi
Gianlorenzo Bernini
--Cornaro Chapel
Peter Paul Rubens
France Under King Louis XIV
--National Academy
--genre
--Salon exhibition
--Versailles
Diego Velazquez
Global Catholic Baroque
The Jesuit Order
Dutch Protestant Baroque
Dutch Republic
Jan Vermeer
--camera obscura
Rembrandt
--etching



Music From the 17th Century

Psalm 147, Lauda Jerusalem from the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Claudio Monteverdi, 1610


Sunday, May 1, 2011

Art and the Reformation


NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION




Mathias Grünewald, The Isenheim Altarpiece





Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, exterior, The Creation of the World




Hieronymous Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, detail of the Hell panel





Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow






Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut print




Albrecht Dürer, Melencholia I, engraving




THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION AND MANNERISM


Michelangelo, The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel



Pontormo, Descent From the Cross





El Greco, Burial of the Count of Orgaz




ART AND THE REFORMATION

Mathias Grünewald
Hieronymous Bosch
--triptych
--alchemy
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
--proverb
The Reformation
--Martin Luther
--Protestant Christianity
Albrecht Dürer
--printmaking
-----woodcut
-----engraving

Read Chapter 18

THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND MANNERISM

The Sack of Rome, 1527
The Counter-Reformation
Mannerism

Read Chapter 17