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ArtLex on the Baroque
Baroque - The art style or art movement of the Counter-Reformation in
the seventeenth century. Although some features appear in Dutch art, the
Baroque style was limited mainly to Catholic countries. It is a style in which
painters, sculptors, and architects sought emotion, movement, and variety
in their works. (pr. broke)
Italian Baroque Art and
Architecture
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Mark Harden’s
Artchive: Sculpture
Garden - Baroque
Costanza Bonarelli - Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) - Scipione
Borghese 1632 - Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius 1618-19 - Ecstasy of
St. Teresa
Met Special Topics
Page – Giambattista
Tiepolo
The Venetian Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was arguably the
greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe and the outstanding first
master of the Grand Manner. His art celebrates the imagination by
transposing the world of ancient history and myth, the scriptures, and
sacred legends into a grandiose, even theatrical language.
Met Special Topics
Page – Johannes
Vermeer
With Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Vermeer ranks among the most admired
of all Dutch artists, but he was much less well known in his own day and
remained relatively obscure until the end of the nineteenth century. The
main reason for this is that he produced a small number of pictures,
perhaps about forty-five (of which thirty-four are known today), primarily for
a small circle of patrons in Delft.
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Born in Les Andelys, Normandy, and active in Paris from 1612 to 1623,
Page – Nicolas Poussin Poussin, like many European artists of his generation, was drawn to
Rome. He arrived there in 1624 an unformed painter, but would become a
central figure for the Roman and European art of his time—despite the fact
that he defined himself against the prevailing Baroque tastes of his
adopted city and steadfastly followed his own artistic path.
Met Special Topics
Page – Peter Paul
Rubens and Anthony
van Dyck: Paintings
Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, the greatest Flemish artists of
the seventeenth century, were prominent figures on an international stage,
namely that of the Catholic church and the royal courts and commercial
centers of Europe. As a painter of religious pictures, mythological scenes,
classical and modern history, and portraits, Rubens had a broader impact
than van Dyck. But as a portraitist, van Dyck was far more influential,
especially in England, where he spent most of the 1630s and his works
inspired artists for the next 150 years (Thomas Gainsborough
[20.155.1]was his most gifted admirer).
Met Special Topics
Page – Rembrandt
Harmensz. Van Rijn:
Painting
A prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, Rembrandt is usually regarded as
the greatest artist of Holland's "Golden Age." He worked first in his native
Leiden and, from 1632 onward, in Amsterdam, where he had studied
briefly (ca. 1624) with the influential history painter Pieter Lastman.
Met Special Topics
Page – Still-life Painting
in Northern Europe,
1600 – 1800
Still-life painting as an independent genre or specialty first flourished in the
Netherlands during the early 1600s, although German and French painters
(for example, Georg Flegel and Sebastien Stoskopff; 21.152.1, 2002.68)
were also early participants in the development, and less continuous
traditions of Italian and Spanish still-life painting date from the same
period.
Met Special Topics
Page – Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, the most admired—perhaps the
greatest—European painter who ever lived, possessed a miraculous gift
for conveying a sense of truth. He gave the best of his talents to painting
portraits, which capture the appearance of reality through the seemingly
effortless handling of sensuous paint.
NGA – Frans Hals
Frans Hals was the leading painter in seventeenth-century Haarlem, a
Dutch city whose prosperity derived from brewing beer and weaving
luxurious fabrics. Although Hals painted some scenes of daily life, he was
primarily a portraitist. His large group portraits of the civic guards and the
directors of charitable institutions, all of which remain in Holland, are
especially famous.
Renaissance and
Baroque Architecture
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Architectural History - These
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public.
The Baroque Era:
Artists and their Works
Baroque Art emerged in Europe around 1600, as an reaction against the
intricate and formulaic Mannerist style which dominated the Late
Renaissance. Baroque Art is less complex, more realistic and more
emotionally affecting than Mannerism.
WebMuseum:
Caravaggio,
Michelangelo Merisi da
Caravaggio (1573-1610). Probably the most revolutionary artist of his
time, the Italian painter Caravaggio abandoned the rules that had guided a
century of artists before him. They had idealized the human and religious
experience.