Annibale Carracci The Butcher’s Shop (c. 1585)

Genre Painting

Oil on Canvas 

 Pun?: Disegnare dalla vive carne: “draw from life”

 Overt criticism of mannerist paintings twisting figure reaching for money

Annibale Carracci, Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
Patron: Pietro Aldobrandini 

Oil on Canvas 

The ideal landscape

Landscape is balanced between nature and humans

Annibale Carracci, Hercules at the Crossroads (c. 1595-97)

Oil on Canvas 

commissioned this work by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his camerino in his family's palace

Subliminal messaging- hoping this will wear off on the cardinal, he will become strong and virtuous an athlete of Christianity

Pleasure pointing down the easy path, Virtue up the difficult one, vice scantily clad

Palm tree shows he conquers vice

Annibale Carracci, Galleria Farnese, Palazzo Farnese (1595-1604)

Patrons: Ranuccio Farnese & Margherita Aldobrandini (1600)

For Farnese family

Rome 

Hans von Aachen, Portrait of Rudolph II 1590

Oil on Canvas 

Patron of the arts

Turned Prague into a cultural capital

A Hedgehog, before 1584, Hans Hoffmann

Watercolor and gouache on parchment

Commissioned by Rudolph II who stimulated an interest in natural history

Wenzel Jamnitzer (German metalworker), Daphne, c. 1550

Gilded silver, coral and semi-precious stones

Artist Chief goldsmith of the Roman empire

Hans von Aachen, The Fall of Phaeton, ca. 1598

 Oil on alabaster

Documented in the inventory of 1607 of Rudolph II’s collection.

Hans von Aachen, The Triumph of Cupid and Bacchus (other side of previous piece), ca. 1598.

Oil on alabaster

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Rudolf II of Habsburg as Vertumnus 1590 or 1591

Now in Skokloster Castle

Mix between a still life and a portrait

Oil on Panel 

Arcimboldo, Composite face with flowers. 1573 Oil on canvas

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Still life and portrait

Arcimboldo, Summer (1573)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Work signed and dated in the weave on the shoulder

Oil on Panel 

Arcimboldo, Water, from the Elements series (1566)

Oil on panel, 

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Bartholomeus Spranger, Hermathena triumphs over Ignorance, 1591,

Hermes and Athena combined as a mascot of the Rudolph II's reign.

Crowned with laurel allowed humanism (classical antiquity)

Shows Rudolph's attention to the Arts 

Oil on Canvas 

Joachim Wtewael, Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan, 1601, oil on copper

Warm colors with copper

Contarelli Chapel, S. Luigi dei Francesi (church) (1599-1600)

Comissioned by Matthieu Cointerel

Caravaggio does three paintings side walls & alter piece

Rome 

Martyrdom of St. Matthew (1599-1600)

Side Wall of Chapel Contarelli 

2 different kinds of light overhead and slandted

Calling of St. Matthew (1599-1600) 

Oil on Canvas

Influence from genre scenes

Side wall on in the Contarelli chapel

Reverse of Michelangelo hand-giving new life to someone

Source of light-God entering the picture

Martyrdom of St. Matthew, first version, reconstruction from x-ray (1599)

Alter Piece of Contarelli chapel 

first version (1602, destroyed 1945)

St. Matthew writing the Gospel

Muscular figure does not look like an apostle

 looks like child is helping

 thought it was inappropriate

Carravaggio, St. Matthew writing the Gospel (1602)

Second version, because the other was though inappropriate

Alterpiece of the Contarelli Chapel 

Angel counting off generations of Christ 

Oil on Canvas 

Carravaggio, Madonna del Pellegrino (1603-5)

 Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome 

Patron: Ermete Cavalletti 

Oil on Canvas

Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (1622-25)

For Cardinal Borghese

In the Vatican

Marble 

She is beginning to turn into a tree, lets becoming roots

Bernini, St. Teresa in Ecstacy (1647-51)

Conoro Chapel

Made in Teresa’s honor

Wrote spiritual autobiography Transverberation

Expression on face looks like she is having an orgasm 

First sculpture made without a base

Colored marble

Rubens, Prometheus Bound on Mount Caucasus

ca. 1611

Oil on canvas

Museum of Art, Philadelphia

The eagle was painted by the leading Flemish animal painter of the day, Frans Snyders.

Pieter Paul Rubens, Raising of the Cross (1610-11), 

triptych for the high altar of the Cathedral of our Lady in Antwerp and preserved in the cathedral of that city.

Baroque twisting curves of body

Oil on Canvas

Rubens, Descent from the Cross. 1612-14

Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp

In 1611, the Arquebusiers - Antwerp's civic guard - commissioned a Descent from the Cross by Rubens for their altar in the cathedral. The dean of the guild at that time was Burgomaster Nicolaas Rockox.

(oil on canvas)

Rubens, The Descent from the Cross (1611-14) (Antwerp, Cathedral of Our Lady). Outer wings:

 St Christopher and the Hermit

Rubens

Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity)

c. 1630

Oil on canvas

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Daugheter suckling her father who is starving in jail

Rubens, The Horrors of War (1637-8)

Painted for Ferdinand de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany.

Oil on Canvas  

Obermarchtal

Building began in 1674.
Church: 1686-1701
Architects: Tommaso Comacio (Graubünden); (died in the middle of the project
Michael Thumb, Christian Thumb and Franz Beer (Vorarlberg)
stucco:  by Johann Schmuzer,

Obermarchtal Interior 

Building began in1674.
Church: 1686-1701
Architects: Tommaso Comacio (Graubünden); (died in the middle of the project
Michael Thumb, Christian Thumb and Franz Beer (Vorarlberg)
stucco:  by Johann Schmuzer, 

Steinhausen
pilgrimage church, belongs to the Premonstratensian monastery of Schussenried
1727-1733
architect: Dominikus Zimmermann

Steinhausen
pilgrimage church, belongs to the Premonstratensian monastery of Schussenried
1727-1733
architect: Dominikus Zimmermann

Isabella Macleod, Mrs. James Gregory, (1798)

Zwiefalten
1668-1690 : convent 
by Tommaso Comacio and Michael Thumb

1739-1765: church
by the Schneider brothers and Johann Michael Fischer

façade  by Johann Michael Fischer, 1749-54

stucco, including altars: Johann Michael Feichtmayr, 1747-1758
main frescoes: Franz Josef Spiegler, 1747-1753
stucco lustro, scagliola (Stuckmarmor)

Hendrik ter Brugghen, The Incredulity of St Thomas, 1622.

Brighter colors that Caravaggio

Oil on Canvas 

Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Liberation of St Peter, 1615, Naples

Oil on Canvas 

St. Peter imprisoned by Harod, Angel comes, chais break, prison gates open, peter caught and executed, crucified upside down

Artemisia Gentileschi, Susanna and the Elders, 1610

Focus on female body because she was able to view her own

Oil on canvas 

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and Holofernes, Naples, Museo di Capodimonte, 1612-1613

Holofernes threatens to destroy Judith’s city so she seduces and beheads him

Oil on Canvas

Death of Germanicus , Poussin (1628)

Germanicus was a member of the imperial family; he was probably poisoned by the emperor (his stepfather)

Oil on Canvas  

Et in Arcadia Ego (1638) Nicholas Poussin

Means “I also exist in Arcadia”

Arcadia is a pastoral utopia, the shepherds discover a tomb with a female companion that reveals the death also exists in Arcadia

Oil on Canvas