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"Cabinet of Curiosities"
-Was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined.
-The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture.
-The classic style of cabinet of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century, although more rudimentary collections had existed earlier. |
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(Latin , "vanity" )
-In art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century.
- A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures.
-It exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. |
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A printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point.
Traditionally, the plate was copper. |
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- In English, the borrowed Italian word impasto most commonly refers to a technique used in painting.
- Paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible.
- Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas.
- When dry, impasto provides texture, the paint coming out of the canvas. |
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Las Meninas
Diego Velazquez
Oil on Canvas
1656
Italian painter Luca Giordano referred to this work as the "theology of painting" |
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Self Portrait with Isabella Brandt
Peter Paul Rubens
1609-1610
Oil on Canvas
While Baroque style was born in Rome, it soon spread internationally. Rubens played a huge role in this. He was highly intelligent and well traveled. His knowledge is what enabled him to unite the natural and supernatural to achieve the Baroque theatricality and drama that was seen in many great artists such as Bernini. |
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The Raising of the Cross
Peter Paul Rubens
oil on canvas
1610-1611 |
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Allegory of Sight from Allegories of the Five Senses
Jan Brughel and Rubens
oil on wood panel
1617-1618 |
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Charles I Dismounted
Anthony Van Dyck
oil on canvas
1635 |
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrant van Rijn
oil on canvas
1632 |
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Three Crosses, first state then fourth state
Rembrant van Rijn
Drypoint and etching
1653 |
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Woman Holding a Balance
Johannes (Jan) Vermeer
1664 |
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Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels
Clara Peeters
Oil on canvas
1611 |
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Still Life with Roemer, Tazza, and Watch
Pieter Claesz
oil on panel
1636 |
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Still Life with Vanitas Theme
Maria van Oosterwyck
oil canvas
1668
By the middle of the 17th century, art began to address the dangers of pride that resulted from a too-strong emphasis on the potential of the individual.
Vanitas paintings reminded the viewer that all people, regardless of worldly success, are all equal in death. |
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Louis XIV
Hyacinthe Rigaud
1701 |
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Garden Facade of the Palace of Versailles and Neptune
Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, with (foreground) Jean-Baptiste Tuby
1678-1685 |
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Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles
Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun
Begun 1678 |
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Mary Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
Georges de La Tour
1640 |
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Landscape with St. Matthew and the Angel
Nicolas Poussin |
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Landscape with St. John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin
1640 |
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