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Baroque Art
Characteristics
Powerful use of chiaroscuro.
Contrasting of light and shadow. They range
from brilliant to deep gloom.
Dramatic compositions with strong diagonals
and swirling action.
Genre scenes – scenes that told stories of
everyday life.
Caravaggio 1573-1610
An Italian artist who
influenced the work of
Rembrandt and Dutch
artists.
He was a master of
light and shadow.
He unified complex
compositions with
dramatic effects.
• Martyrdom of St.
Matthew, 1600
Bruegal 1525-1569
A Flemish artist.
His painting can be seen as a parable, a
story that contains a symbolic message.
Concerned with detail.
Bruegal
Hunter in the Snow, 1565
Bruegal
Peasant Wedding, 1568
Rembrandt 1606-1669
Baroque artist from Holland.
Dramatic use of light and shadow and
strong contrast.
Influenced by the spotlighting of the theater.
Expressive portrait painter of groups and
individuals.
Work largely devoted to sacred subjects.
Also painted mythological subjects.
Rembrandt created many ways of painting which allowed him to create
more realistic representations. An example of one of his techniques
would be the use of stippling. Stippling is when many dots put together
with different colors, make up an image that looks very real. This
relates to how computers work. There are many different pixels all of
which have different colors, but when put together they create images.
Rembrandt used mostly oil to create some of his famous masterpieces.
Rembrandt being Dutch, his paintings were based off of the Dutch
Golden Age, a time of wealth and cultural achievement.
Naturalism
: Naturalism is a type of art that pays attention to very accurate and
precise details, and portrays things as they are.
Rembrandt
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632
Rembrandt
Detail of Anatomy Lesson
Rembrandt
Self-portrait with
Saskia, 1636
Etching
Rembrandt
Self-portrait, 1640
Oil on canvas
Rembrandt
The Night Watch, 1642
Corporate portraits-each person in painting paid to be in it.
Rembrandt
The Mill, 1650
Oil on canvas
Rembrandt
Lion Resting, 1650-52, pen & ink
Rembrandt
Self-portrait, 1660
Oil on canvas
Rubens 1577-1640
Captured the dynamic spirit of the Baroque
style.
He used rich colors, dramatic design and
powerful, twisting figures.
Used light to illuminate the important parts
of his paintings.
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later
years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about
1580 in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern
Mannerism continued into the early 17th century. Mannerism is
notable for its intellectual sophistication as well as its artificial (as
opposed to naturalistic) qualities. Mannerism favors compositional
tension and instability rather than the balance and clarity of earlier
Renaissance painting.
Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish painter, considered the most important
of the 17th century, whose style came to define the animated,
exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold
brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian
school Rubens created a vibrant style, with an energy that emanates
from tensions between the intellectual and the emotional, the classical
and the romantic.
Rubens
Daniel in the Lion Den, 1615
Rubens
Dance of the Villagers, 1636
Rubens
Self-portrait, 1638-40
Comparison of Rembrandt and Rubens
Descent from the Cross,
Rembrandt
Descent from the Cross,
Rubens
1654
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