Lecture 12: Dutch Baroque; Freedberg on Power of Images

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The power of images: How do they make us feel? act?
- Mantegna, Martyrdom of St. Sebastion/ Titian, Venus of Urbino.
- Sympathy? Lust? Violence?
- Advertisements:
  - tourist ad/ guns
  - gender: kitchen/male as collector
  - alcohol
  - car (2 - identifications nature)
  - body: cologne/ lipstick; hair/jeans
The Role of the Artist: (Contrast Spain & Netherlands)
- Velazquez, Las Meninas., 1656. / Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1628. (The Artist's Studio).
- Titian, Self-Portrait {as old, successful artist} 1562. Detail
- Frans Hals.
  - The Merry Drinker, 1630.
  - Regentesses of the Old Men's Home, c.1644./detail.
- Rembrandt.
  - The Night Watch (The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq), 1642. /detail.
  - Self-Portrait. c.1660. Canvas.
  - Self-Portrait. 1634.
  - Self-Portrait. 1640.
  - Christ Healing the Sick ('The hundred-guilder print'). c.1648-50. Etching.
  - The Prodigal Son. c.1669. / 2 details.
Landscape
- Jan van Goyen, View of Rhenen. 1646./ Contrast: Rubens Landscape with Rainbow., c.1635 and Claude Lorraine, Landscape with the Father of Psyche sacrificing to Apollo., 1660-70.
- Jacob van Ruisdael, Windmill at Wijk c.1665.
- Meindert Hobbema, The Avenue, Middelharnis., 1689.