Gardner Chapter 25

BAROQUE ART& ARCHITECTURE in NORTHERN EUROPE
(revised 8/08)
VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
Etching 
Camera Obscura


FLANDERS
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
*Raising of the Cross, 1609-10 (oil/panel) 
  http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/rubens_ext.html

Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseilles, 1622-25 (oil/canvas)
     http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/rubens_ext.html

Clara Peeters

Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels, 1616
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/p/peeters/index.

Anthony Van Dyck

Charles I Dismounted, c. 1635

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
Frans Hals (c. 1581/85 - 1666)
Archers of Saint Hadrian, c. 1633 (oil/canvas
Rembrandt van Rijn (1609-69)
*Capt. Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company (Night Watch), 1642 (oil/canvas) 
   http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/rembran/painting/group/index.html 

*The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632
http://www.mauritshuis.nl/english/collectie/portretten/rembrandt_totaal.html

Self-Portrait, 1659-60 (oil/canvas)

Christ with the Sick (Hundred Guilder Print), etching, ca. 1649
Jacob van Ruisdael (c. 1628-82)
View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670 (oil/canvas)
Jan (Johannes) Vermeer) (1632-75)
*Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670-75 (oil/canvas)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/vermeer/p-vermeer4.htm
Willem Kalf (1619-93)
Still Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar, 1669
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/k/kalf/index.html
Rachel Ruysch (1663-1750)
Flower Still Life, after 1700 (oil/canvas)

FRANCE
Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)
  Et in Arcadia Ego,  c. 1655 (oil/canvas)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/poussin/p-poussin8.htm

*Burial of Phocion, 1648 (oil/canvas)
http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/poussin/p-poussin9.htm

Claude Lorrain (1600-82)
Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629 (oil/canvas)

Georges de La Tour (1598-1652)
*Adoration of the Shepherds, 1645-50 (oil/canvas)
     http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/l/la_tour/georges/2/index.html

Palais Versailles, 1668-85, Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart 
 *Hall of Mirrors (Garden side), Jules Hardouin-Mansart  and Charles Le Brun, c. 1680
 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://arch.ou.edu/arch/2423/Chapter%252021/ie. (see bottom of page)

Jules Hardouin-Mansart,
Eglise de Dome, Church of the Invalides, Paris, 1676-1706
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/invalides/invalides.html

ENGLAND

Christopher Wren (1632-1723)
Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, 1675-1710

Chapter Review Questions

1.  Compare and contrast Caravaggio's Entombment (fig. 24-19) with Ruben's Raising of the Cross (fig. 25-2) in terms of subject, lighting, composition, and audience envolvement. 

2.  How does Poussin control composition in his paintings? 

3.  What are some of the new subjects to emerge in Northern Baroque art as a result of the Protestant Reformation?  Give examples of works of art exemplifying these new subjects.

4.  Compare and contrast Baroque architecture in Italy (Rome) (figs. 24-2, 3, 9) with that of France (figs. 25-31 & 36).

5.  What new elements appear in 17th-century portraiture?  Use the following portraits to answer this question: figs. 25-9 through 25-13.