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ART HISTORY 2051

• Baroque Italy Spain

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Baroque

• painting Italy
• Caravaggio (1571-1610)
• style realist tendency
• rejection of Mannerism
• interest in surface textures appearances
• human figure not prettified
• biography bohemian
• in permanent revolt against authority
• fled Rome because charged w/ manslaughter
• died of malaria

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Baroque

• Caravaggio (cont.)
• Bacchus (c. 1595)
• theme mythological
• little reminiscent of god of antiquity
• drowsy
• soft mouth
• dainty gesture
• mood subjective
• depth suggested by foreshortening
• color rejection of Venetian (re Titian)

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Baroque

• painting Italy (cont.)
• Artemisia Gentileschi (1563-1639)
• style Caravaggesque
• scenes of feminine heroicism revenge
• biography horrific life translated into themes
  of rape torture
• raped by her drawing teacher, Tassi, who then
  refused to marry her
• Gentileschis father sued Tassi
• Artemisia tortured w/ thumbscrews to test her
  veracity before Tassi was convicted

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Baroque

• painting Italy (cont.)
• style Classicizing tendency
• principal artists
• Carracci (1560-1609)
• Reni (1575-1642)
• characteristics
• clarity, unity decorum
• figures handsome faces muscular bodies
• composition recalls Classical relief sculpture

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Baroque

• painting Italy (cont.)
• style Dynamic tendency (a.k.a. High Baroque)
• perspective architectural
• technique pictorial illusionism (e.g., painted
  framework)
• intense light color
• composition strong diagonals
• figures idealized vigorous in action
• principal artists
• Guercino (1591-1666)
• Cortona (1596-1669)

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Baroque

• sculpture Italy
• Bernini (1598-1680)
• style Dynamic tendencies
• influences Hellenistic antiquity
• patrons papacy in Rome
• Baroque qualities
• spatial order active vs. self-contained
• realism of detail differentiation of texture
• drapery abstract play of folds crevasses
• attempting pictorial effects traditionally
  outside sculptures domain

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Baroque

• painting Spain
• Velázquez (1599-1660)
• style Realist tendency (re Caravaggio)
• color Venetian richness (re Titian)
• brushwork fluid painterly
• light fascination w/ depicting fleeting effects
• themes
• genre scenes
• mythological
• royal portraits (political religious)

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 3 CARAVAGGIO. Bacchus (c. 1597), Oil on
  canvas, 95 x 85 cm., Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
• Slide 4 Comparison between TITIANs Bacchanal
  (1518) and CARAVAGGIOs Bacchus (c. 1597).
• Slide 5 CARAVAGGIO. Supper at Emmaus (c.
  1600-1601), Oil on canvas, 139 x 195 cm.,
  National Gallery, London.
• Slide 6 CARAVAGGIO. The Calling of Saint
  Matthew (1599-1600), Oil on canvas, 10' 7
  1/2" X 11' 2, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi
  dei Francesi, Rome.

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 8 GENTILESCHI, Artemisia. Judith and
  Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes (c.
  1625), Oil on canvas, 61/2 x 47, The
  Detroit Institute of Arts.
• Slide 9 Comparison between GENTILESCHIs Judith
  (c. 1625) and CARAVAGGIOS Judith Beheading
  Holofernes (c. 1598), Oil on canvas, 144 x
  195 cm., Galleria Nazionale dell'Arte Antica,
  Rome.
• Slide 11 CARACCI, Anibale. Ceiling fresco
  (1597- 1601). Gallery, Palazzo Farnese, Rome.

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 12 CARRACCI, Annibale. Venus and Anchises
  (detail from Slide 11).
• Slide 13 RENI, Guido. Aurora (1613), Ceiling
  fresco, Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.
• Slide 15 GUERCINO. Aurora (1621-23), Ceiling
  fresco. Villa Ludovisi, Rome.
• Slide 16 Comparison between the Classicizing
  tendency of RENIs Aurora (1613) and the
  High Baroque tendency of GUERCINOs Aurora
  (1621-23).

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 17 Detail of CORTONAs Glorification of
  the Reign of Urban VIII (1633-39), Portion of
  ceiling fresco, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
• Slide 19 BERNINI, David (c. 1625), Marble,
  height 170 cm., Galleria Borghese, Rome.
• Slide 20 Comparison between Classical Greek
  Discuss Thrower (c. 450 BCE) and BERNINIs
  Baroque David (c. 1625).
• Slide 21 Comparison between BERNINIs Baroque
  David (c. 1625) and MICHELANGELOs High
  Renaissance David (c. 1500).

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 22 BERNINI, Gianlorenzo. Bust of Scipione
  Borghese (1632), Marble, height 30 3/4,
  Borghese Gallery, Rome.
• Slide 23 BERNINI. The Ecstasy of Saint Therese
  (1647-52), Marble, Cappella Cornaro, Santa
  Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
• Slide 25 VELÁZQUEZ, Diego. The Waterseller of
  Seville (c. 1619), Oil on canvas, 42 x 31
  7/8, Wellington Museum, London.
• Slide 26 VELÁZQUEZ, Diego. Los Borrachos (1628),
  Oil on canvas, Museo del Prado,
  Madrid.

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IMAGE INDEX

• Slide 27 Comparison between VELÁZQUEZs Los
  Borrachos (1628) and CARAVAGGIOs Bacchus
  (1597).
• Slide 28 VELÁZQUEZ, Diego. Venus with a Mirror
  (c. 1650), Oil on canvas, 122.5 x 177 cm.,
  National Gallery, London.
• Slide 29 Comparison between VELÁZQUEZs Venus
  with a Mirror (c. 1650) and TITIANs The
  Venus of Urbino (1538).
• Slide 30 VELÁZQUEZ, Diego. Pope Innocent X
  (1650), Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 1/4, Galleria
  Doria Pamphili, Rome.

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• Slide 31 Comparison between VELÁZQUEZs Pope
  Innocent X (1650) and TITIANs Pope Paul III
  and His Grandsons (1546).
• Slide 32 Comparison between VELÁZQUEZs Pope
  Innocent X (1650) and EL GRECOs Portrait of
  Hortensio Felix Paravicino (c. 1605).
• Slide 33 VELAZQUEZ, Diego. Las Meninas (1656),
  Oil on canvas, 10 5" x 9 1, Museo del
  Prado, Madrid.
• Slide 34 Details of Infanta Marguarite Therese
  (c. 1654), Oil on canvas, 128.5 x 100 cm.,
  Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.