Art History Episode 5: 1600-1700: The Baroque
Baroque art in Italy, Spain, Holland, Flanders and France.
playlist - 45 videos 3 hours, 52 minutes
1. The Baroque style in Catholic Flanders and Protestant Holland as exemplified by Peter Paul Rubens's Elevation of the Cross, oil on canvas, 1610-11 (Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp) and Rembrandt van Rijn's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, oil on canvas, 1632, (Mauritshuis, The Hague.
2. Antoine or Louis Le Nain, Peasant Family in an Interior, 2nd quarter of the 17th century, oil on canvas, 1.13 x 1.59 m (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
3. Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638-39 (Royal Collection, Windsor)
4. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Cathedra Petri (or Chair of St. Peter), gilded bronze, gold, wood, stained gla
ss, 1647-53 (apse of Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome).
A Smarthistory.org video
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| Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (Galleria Borghese) (Photo credit: ancientartpodcast.org) |
5. Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-25 (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
6. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Bust of Medusa, marble, c. 1644-48 (Capitoline Museum)
7. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, 1645-52 (Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome)
8. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, 1658-70, Rome; commissioned by Cardinal Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili for the nearby Jesuit seminary
9. Gianlorenzo Bernini, Saint Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), Vatican City, Rome, 1656-67
10. Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew, oil on canvas, c. 1599-1600
(Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome)
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| Crucifixion of St. Peter, Caravaggio, 1601, in Santa Maria del Popolo (Photo credit: Prof. Mortel) |
11. Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, c. 1599-1600, oil on canvas (Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome).
A Smarthistory.org video by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker
12. Caravaggio, Crucifixion of St. Peter, oil on canvas, 1601 (Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome)
13. Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin, 1605-06, Oil on canvas, 12 feet, 10 inches x 8 feet (369 x 245 cm) (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Painted for the altar of a family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Scala del
Trastevere, Rome.
14. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Narcissus at the Source, oil on canvas, 1597-99 (Palazzo Barbarini)
15. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus, 1601, oil on canvas, 55 x 77 inches, 141 x 196.2 cm (National Gallery, London)
16. Annibale Carracci, Ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese, fresco, Rome, 1597-1608
17. Claude Lorrain, The Judgment of Paris, 1645-46, oil on canvas, 44-3/16 x 58-7/8 inches
(National Gallery of Art)
18. El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1612 - 1614, oil on canvas, 126 x 71 in. (319 x 180 cm), (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
19. Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ("Carlino"), Rome. Commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini in 1634 for the Holy Order of the Trinity; construction began in 1638 and the church was consecrated in 1646.
Speakers: Frank Dabell, Dr. Beth Harris, and Dr. Steven Zucker
20. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Cathedra Petri (or Chair of St. Peter), gilded bronze, gold, wood, stained glass, 1647-53 (apse of Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome).
According to tradition, St. Peter himself, the founder of the institution of the Church and considered the first pope, sat on the ancient wooden chair that is encased within this larger bronze and gold chair.
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22. Guercino, St. Luke Displaying a Painting of the Virgin, oil on canvas, 1652-53
(Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)
23. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Church of Il Gesu, Rome (consecrated 1584, ceiling fresco, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus, by il Baciccio, also known as Giovanni Battista Gaulli, 1672-1685).
Speakers: Frank Dabell, Beth Harris, and Steven Zucker
24. Jan van Huysum, Vase with Flowers, c. 1718-20, oil on canvas, 24 x 31 in. (61 x 79 cm), (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
Speakers: Pippa Couch, Rachel S. Ropeik
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| Peter Paul Rubens - The Consequences of War (detail) - WGA20335 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
25. Peter Paul Rubens, The Consequences of War, 1638-39, oil on canvas (Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
26. Peter Paul Rubens, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, 1617-18, oil on canvas, 224 x 210.5 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
27. Pierre Le Gros the Younger, Stanislas Kostka on His Deathbed, 1703, upstairs at Bernini's Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Speakers: Frank Dabbell, Beth Harris and Steven Zucker
28. Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with St. John, 1640 (Art Institute of Chicago)
and Rape of the Sabines, 1635 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. David Drogin
29. Fra Andrea Pozzo, Glorification of Saint Ignatius, ceiling fresco in the nave of Sant'Ignazio, Rome, 1691-94
30. Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the left transept of the church, Il Gesù, Rome (commissioned in 1695).
Many artists contributed including Alessandro Algardi, Pierre Legros, Bernardino Ludovisi, Il Lorenzone and Jean-Baptiste Théodon.
Materials include bronze, gold, silver, and many semiprecious stones most notably lapis lazuli.
Speakers: Frank Dabell, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
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| Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath with detail of left hand (Photo credit: profzucker) |
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| Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath with detail of letter (Photo credit: profzucker) |
32. Rembrandt's Self-Portraits
Works Discussed:
Studio copy, Rembrandt with a Gorget, oil on canvas, c. 1629 (Mauritshuis, The Hague)
Self-Portrait at the Age of 34, oil on canvas, 1640 (National Gallery, London)
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 1658 (Frick Collection)
Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, c. 1665 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne)
33. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, A Girl at a Window, 1645, oil on canvas, 32 x 24 in. (81.6 x 61 cm), (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
Speakers: Pippa Couch, Rachel Ropeik
34. Rembrandt van Rijn, The Three Crosses, etching and drypoint, 1653
35. Jusepe (José) de Ribera, The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, 1639, oil on canvas,
92 x 92 in. (234 x 234 cm), (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker
The English Romantic poet, Lord Byron , wrote that the artist, "Spagnoletto [the little Spaniard]
tainted/His brush with all the blood of all the sainted" (Don Juan , xiii. 71).
36. Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival (or Disembarkation) of Marie de Medici at Marseilles,1621-25, oil on canvas, 394 x 295 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
37. Anthony van Dyck, Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, Prince of Oneglia, 1624, oil on canvas (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
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| Diego Velázquez - Las Meninas (detail) - WGA24449 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
125 1/4 x 108 5/8 in. (318 x 276 cm), (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
39. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Los Borrachos (The Drunks)
or The Triumph of Bacchus, 1628-1629, 165 x 225 cm (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
40. Diego Velázquez, Vulcan's Forge, c. 1630, oil on canvas, 223 cm x 290 cm (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
41. Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, oil on canvas, c. 1662 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
42. Giorgione, The Tempest, c. 1506-8 (Accademia, Venice)
43. Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, 1637-38, oil on canvas, 87 x 120 cm (Musée du Louvre)
44. Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting, 1666-69, oil on canvas, 1000 x 1200 cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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| van Dyck, Charles I at the Hunt, detail with figures (Photo credit: profzucker) |
Inscribed: "Carolus.I.REX Magnae Britanniae" - Charles I rules Great Britain
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Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
and as noted below each entry.
