Venus of Urbino Titian 1538 Venetian Renaissance

Colorito, luxury, boneless, glowing, the focus is on the paint

from the box for awomen's dowry, shows the box being used in the back

women in the front is to seduce future husband

Isenheim Alterpiece Grunewald 1510-1515 Northern Renaissance

from a chapel attached to a hospital

Jesus suffered just like your suffering and he stayed good

specific, unlike Southern Renaissance

shimmering glittering color

sickly green skin and curled hands reinject fierce content

Self portrait Durer 1500 Northern Renaissance

red glowing skin 

softness of curls and touching fur gives a tactile quality

striking eyes, lively intelligent consciousness

sales pitch > look at what I can do

looks like jesus

Garden of Earthly Delights Bosch 1505-1515 Northern Renaissance

Surreal, we see whimsical color

but he was trying to terrify

Eden has hints darkness, middle shows indulgences of the flesh

sex inside fruit > deteriorration of flesh

Bruegel Hunters in the Snow 1565 Northern Renaissance

had some trade with Japan, evident in perspective

landscape big, figure little

vs. the psychological Europeans

mood of a day > genre paintings

wandering curve

Serenity of children with hints of hardship > hunters with no food

Bruegel Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 1560 Northern Renaissance

history painting and genre painting

slows you down

you almost missed the point so the way things are described is so important

Ecstasy of St. Theresa Bernini 1645-1652 Italian Baroque

moved deeply by experience of Jesus

similarity of passions, blend of religious and sexual ecstasy

direct and shocking again

the Baroque piece of art: drama emotion energy ornate

Cornaro Chapel Bernini 1642-1652 Italian Baroque

donors leering gentlemen

titillating 

make it more funto come to church

The Calling of St. Matthew Caravaggio 1599-1600 Italian Baroque

 tenebrism: inky black velvety shadow

chiaroscuro

regular people

light shins on sinners

drinking/gambling

Entombment Caravaggio 1603-1604 Italian Baroque

action

diagonal lines

unbalanced

tenbrism

shouldn't work but does

Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holefernes Artemisia Gentileschi 1625 Italian Baroque

real looking blood

fleshy smirk

chiaroscuro

diagonal lines of arms focused on head

Pieter Paul Rubens Raising of the Cross 1609-1610 Northern Baroque

Unlike any other triptych because the scene is continuous into the outer frames 

radical diagonal cross

unusual mix of Flemish and Italian style

he is flemish but studied italian

Pieter Paul Rubens Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus 1618 Northern Baroque

not balanced, not restrained

breaking all the Renaissance rules

violence against women

pushing/ pulling arms

action enery 

rubenesque > voluptuous curvy figures

Rembrandt van Rijn Self Portrait 1658 Northern Baroque

fuzzy edges

painting himself, a poor man, in glittering gold

dramatic dark contrast against gold

first third is empty > rule breaking

Rembrandt van Rijn Self Portrait in the Studio 1628 Northern Baroque

rule breaking > the focus is the dark back of the canvas

the light is coming from the canvas > imagination

painting himself with his tools validates himself as painter

a blend of craft and imagination

Diego Velasquez Las Meninas 1656 Spanish Baroque

gaze > painter sees everything, representation vs. represented, meta image about art making

realizes he can make new things

first modern painting because he doesnt spell out what we are supposed to think, requires interpretation

hard to identify as baroque, energy in brushstrokes

dramatic lighting, top half is dark

brings audience in, they are king and queen

Jan Vermeer Woman holding a Balance 1664 Northern Baroque

diagonal movement that sweeps up 

balanced even though it shouldnt be 

last judgement > weighing of souls

fur white ties her to virgin, balancing jewels

where wil she go, heaven or hell, form marries content