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ARH2051 Exam 2
Covers 30+ slides on Baroque-Realism(17th-18th c.)
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Undergraduate 2
10/26/2010

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Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (closed), ca 1510.

Northern Europe/Holy Roman Empire/Germany

Oil on wood. 9' x 10'

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Matthias Grunewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (open), Shrine carved by Nikolaus Hagenauer, 1490. 

Painted & gilt limewood sculpture.

Northern Europe/HRE/Ger.

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Albrecht Durer, Four Apostles, 1526. Oil on wood. Northern Europe (German)
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Hans Holbein the Younger,  The French Ambassadors, 1533.  Oil & Tempera on wood.
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Hieronymus Bosch,  Garden of Earthly Delights, 1510. 

Northern Europe - Netherlands

Oil on Wood.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559.

 Northern Europe (Netherlands)

Oil on wood.

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Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623. Marble sculpture. Italian Baroque.
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Gianlorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1645.

Italian Baroque.

Marble sculpture installment.

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Caravaggio, Coversion of Saint Paul, 1600. Oil on canvas. Italian Baroque.
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Caravaggio, Calling of Saint Matthew, 1600.

Italian Baroque.

Oil on canvas.

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1620.

Italian Baroque.

Oil on canvas.

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Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, 1690s.

Italian Baroque.

Ceiling fresco in Rome.

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Diego Velaquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656.

Spanish Baroque.

Oil on [10ft] canvas.

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Jan Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670.

Northern Europe - Dutch

Oil on Canvas.

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Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, 1610.

Northern Europe - Flanders/Flemish

Oil on wood

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Peter Paul Rubens, Consequences of War, 1640.

Northern Europe - Flanders/Flemish

Oil on 6' x 11' canvas

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Hendrick ter Brugghen, Calling of Saint Matthew, 1620.

N. Europe - Dutch Republic

Oil on Canvas

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Gerrit van Honthorst, Supper Party, 1620.

N. Europe - Dutch

Oil on canvas

Studied in Italy & influenced by work of Carvaggio

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Rembrandt van Rijn, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1640.

N. Europe - Dutch

Oil on 11' x 14' canvas

Most unique of the civic-guard group portraits. Time piece of Dutch police about to march.  It has been altered, trimmed, and vandalized (twice).

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, ca 1660.

N. Europe - Dutch

Oil on canvas

Circles probably honoring Giotto.

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Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem From the Dunes at Overveen, 1670.

Dutch

Oil on canvas

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Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s

N. Europe - Dutch

Oil on panel

Reflects pride Dutch had in material possessions; skull & timepiece remind viewer of life's transience.

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Georges de la Tour, Adoration of the Shepherds, 1650.

N. Europe - France

Oil on canvas

Suggested Carvaggio influence through use of light.

 

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Hyacinthe Tigaud, Louis XIV, 1700.

N. Europe - France

Oil on canvas

Louis - Sun King was short, can't tell from portrait.

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, Galeri des Glaces, ca 1680.

"Hall of Glass/Mirrors"

Palace of Louis XIV - France

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Jean-Honre Fragonard, The Swing, 1766

Rococo style

Oil on canvas

Pastel colors and soft light

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Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, Rococo style.

Autdoor amusements, French upperclass society. Hazey colors, subtle shapes, suave gentility match Rococo taste.

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Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, 1765. Enlightenment period.

Celebrates inventions of Industrial Rev. In tune w/ Enlight.idea of progress. Dramatically lit by candle or moon is Wright's specialty.  Orrery = planetary diarama.

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William Hogarth, Breakfast Scene, 1745.

Enlightenment/Naturalist style.

Story/narrative scenes like chapters in a book satirizes the married, immoral upperclass of England.

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Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, 1770. Enlightenment/Naturalist.

Theatrically ordered; remenecent of Weyden's Desposition. English commander mortally wounded is the new hero/martyr. Image charged w/religious emotion. Inspired Realism.

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Jaques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, (French) Enlightenment/Neoclassicism.

Celebrates ancient Roman patriotism and classic Roman architecture.  Enlightenment virtues of courage, patriotism, unwavering loyalty against emotions of love, sorrow, & despair (all womanly characteristics & represented as such).

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