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Art 106
Vassar college art 106 cards sp17, from monuments list
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/12/2017

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Calling of St. Matthew Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio 1599 Rome, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi
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Religious art with a new, modern naturalism
Matthew is tax collector, probably one with coins. Not old man. Jesus on right.
Use of chiaroscuro and tenebrism makes the scene seedy/dramatic.
Action in hand gestures of "interlocutors", like Da Vinci. Artistic quotation w/Jesus hand looking like Michelangelo's Adam
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Entombment of Christ

Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio

Rome, Vatican Pinacoteca

 

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Again rugged, naturalistic, tenebristic

"Euchratic" painting abt body of Christ

The guy with the knees is Nicodemus, which is often painted as a self-portait but this one is of Michelangelo

Fingers of guy with torso emphasizes fleshiness of Christ

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Victorious Cupid (Amor Vincit Omnia)

1602

Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio

Berlin, Staatliche Gemaldegalerie

 

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Secular

Cupid trampling human achievements (lute, book, armor)

"aggressive nudity" is naturalistic

feather pointing to genitals is a visual quotation of Donatello's david and goliath

Commentary on Michelangelo's queerness?

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Annibale Caracci

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

1603

Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphili

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Showed new interest in landscape painting that rose in Rome.

pastoralism reflected new investment in the countryside.

Lunette shape.

De-emphasis on figures.

Idealized land, camels suggest egypt

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The Triumph of the Name of Jesus

fresco and stucco

Giovanni BATTISTA Gauli

1676-8

Church of the Gesu, Rome

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Illusion of opening into the sky through oval

vsisionary art depicting the unseeable

the damned and angels are sculpted outside the painting

use of frame and shadow gives the illusion descent toward viewer

multi-media ensemble

inspired by theatrical sets

 

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The Glorification of Saint Ignatius Loyola (Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits)

Andrea Pozzo

1691-4

fresco

Church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome

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Pozzo was both architect and theatre builder, obvious in paintin of architecture, techincally advanced

wrote an artistic treatise, use v scientific mathetmatical grid method for creating perspective on a vaulted ceiling

the parabolic mirror mixes religion, science, art

supposed to create extasy 

"early modern religious Imac"

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David

Gianlorenzo Bernini

1623

Rome, Galleria Borghese

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breaks away from contrapposto tradition

Bernini used fixed points of view to create optimal dynamic impact instead of trying for a total 360* view

even more scowly than older davids

never moved from where it was carved

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