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Bernini
David
Italian Baroque
intense spirituality; more extreme; not after, not before, but during the battle; unstable pose; contrapposto in all three axes |
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Caravaggio
The Calling of St. Matthew
Italian Baroque
extreme humanism; Levi called to be disciple by Christ; content and image; contrast of light and shadow, diagonals |
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Caravaggio
The Incredulity of St. Thomas
Italian Baroque
doubt turned to faith; poking finger into Christ's wound; tenebrism = Baroque, extreme chiascuro, extreme light and shadow; how scene is lit (artificially) |
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Gentileschi
Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of the Holofernes
Italian Baroque
woman follower of Caravaggio; hiding decapitated head; figure, anatomy, musculature; not feminine, not delicate; spuring blood soaking into sheets |
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Velazquez
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
Spanish Baroque
- Philip IV, royal portraits; infante; also self-portrait of Velazquez, mirror on the wall |
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Murillo
The Esquilache Immaculate Conception
Spanish Baroque
- most prominent, follows church's doctrine on painting rules; halo of Mary, worshipping cherubs |
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Ruben
The Raising of the Cross
Flemish Baroque
first international superstar; altarpiece painting; scene continues across tryptych; opposite of The Deposition; bright highlights |
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Hals
Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint Adrian
Dutch Baroque
- group portrait of private militias; equal treatment of group results in creative and challenging compositions |
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Rembrandt
Captain Frans Banning Cocq Mustering his Company
Dutch Baroque
tenebrism; cleaned, less dark; bright highlights of faces; most important Dutch Baroque painter (Amsterdam) |
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Rembrandt
Self-Portrait
Dutch Baroque
psychology of each stage of his life; sagging face, worn hands; younger portraits appear more optimistic; bankrupt, more life experiences |
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Judith Leyster
Self-Portrait
Dutch Baroque
artist at work with a range of styles; Baroque portrait with looser, rococo painting in painting |
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Vemeer
Woman Holding a Balance
Dutch Baroque
- domestic interiors, secular; used camera obscura; held in low esteem as catholic in protestant country |
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Rigaud
Louis XIV
French Baroque
Bourbon monarchy; reign of over 70 years; showing off legs, wearing high heels; standing on platform as status of king |
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Watteau
The Pilgrimage to Cythera
French Rococo
fete galante - charming party as new content category; idle life of luxury, total leisure, outdoor party |
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Fragonard
The Meeting
French Rococo
King's favorite mistress; secret lovers meeting; climbing ladder; pastel colors - pink, lemon, yellow; "cotton candy" brushwork; 1773 - rejects work, call for morality, cue Neoclassical et al |
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