Lecture 11: Baroque Art in Flanders and Spain
Reminder: PMA visits this week.
Slide List
Map: Ways of organizing our narrative. What's happening elsewhere?
- Geography (regional "temperment")/Machu
Picchu, Peru c. 1500.
- Masaccio, The Holy
Trinity/Correggio, The Assumption
of the Virgin/A Queen Mother,
Benin c. 1500 .
- Jan van Eyck. The Ghent
Altarpiece. Completed 1432./
Pieter Bruegel. The Corn
Harvest, 1565. {installations of power}
- Michelangelo. Ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel. 1508-12. Vatican, Rome/
St Peter's and Piazza.
Rome.
- Cellini, Salt-cellar of Francis
I, 1539-43. {wealth}
- Tintoretto, Last Supper, c. 1600./
1591. El Greco. The
Resurrection., c.1597-1604. {religious moments}
Counterreformation:
Style: Baroque
- Caravaggio, Conversion of
St Paul., c.1601. Canvas./
Bernini, Ecstasy of St
Teresa, Cornaro Chapel. 1645-52. S Maria della Vittoria. Rome.
- Fra Andrea Pozzo, The
Glorification of St Ignatius, ceiling of St. 'Ignazio, Rome, 1691-4.
details
/Church of the Gesu
{religious and political "triumphalism"}
- Rubens {"great artist" as organizing structure}
- The Miracles of St Francis
Xavier(altarpiece), 1616-1617/Contrast Titian, The Assumption of the Virgin
(altarpiece), 1516-18.
- Rape of Daughters of
Leucippus. c.1616-17./Compare Titian,
Rape of Europa , 1559.
- Self-Portrait, c. 1640, late
in life, details./Contrast Durer,
Self-Portrait, c. 1500.
- Landscape with Rainbow
c.1635. Panel/
Portrait of Isabella
Brant. c.1622. Chalk on paper.
- Anthony van Dyck, Portrait
of Charles I of England, 1633. {influence}
- Velazquez
- Sofonisba, Self-Portrait,
c.1552. Scheme of picure, details
- Zurburan, St. Francis in
Meditation, c. 1639/St.
Serapion, 1638.{chirascuro}
