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Baroque - Flanders Flashcards

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Flemish Baroque painting - background

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  1. Catholic Flanders is strongly connected to Italian Baroque art
  2. Antwerp School - most important
  3. favorite subjects - religion, history and allegorical
  4. portraiture and still life - gain significance
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Peter Paul Rubens

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  1. Antwerp school
  2. first to recognize significance of Caravaggio
  3. original and powerful synthesis of Michelangelo(sculptural forms), titan (brilliant colour, composition), Carracci(classical elegance), Caravaggio(Tension and emotion)
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Anthony van Dyck

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  1. assistant of Rubens
  2. excelled in portraiture
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Honeysuckle Bower

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  1. early training in Antwerp
  2. stayed in Italy 1600-1608
  3. successful painter with over 100 assistants
  4. presented himself as refined gentleman - sword and extravagant orange stockings
  5. luxurious garment - Venetian painting
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Peter Paul Rubens - Elevation of the Cross

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  1. foreshortened anatomy and violent action, tension-filled composition is heroic and emotional
  2. diagonal composition centered on the naked Christ
  3. drama in action - 3D dynamism - figures extend inward and outward
  4. forces and counterforces in perfect balance
  5. Michelangelesque and Caravaggesque chiaroscuro - heavy shading and strong light and dark contrast in composition
  6. colourrism - brilliant and shiny colour from Titan and Veronese
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Peter Paul Rubens - Rape of the daughters of Leucippus

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  1. typical female bodies of rubens - rosy flesh tones and softness appealing to sensuality
  2. complexity of composition
    — group of figures bound by a circle built by the horses and kidnappers with internal interaction between them
    — dynamics forces within try to break through the system, tho they balance each other out to maintain an equilibrium
  3. zeus’ sons, castor and pollus, abducted Phoebe and Hilaeira at their marriage banquet
  4. reference from Leonardo da Vinci
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Peter Paul Rubens - Henry IV receiving the Protrait of Maria de’ Medici

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  1. developed lavish and splendorous style to cater the taste of royalty and aristocrats
  2. arranged marriage rendered as perfect match according to the will of gods
    3.Jupiter and Juno, Hentry IV, and personification of France
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Peter Paul Rubens - Landing of Maria de Medici at Marseilles

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  1. commissioned b Maria de’ Medici - series of 21 historical-allegorical pictures with robust figures in opulent settings
  2. sea and sky rejoice at the queen’s arrival in France
  3. luxury - gold of the vessel
  4. sensuality - ivory of flesh, red and shiny silver of garment
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Peter Paul Rubens - Consequences of war

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  1. densely allegorical painting showing the painter’s deep sense of moral anger against the 30 years’ war
    — 30 years’ war - 1618 to 1648 between various european countries
  2. Mars was dragged by Fury to war, while Venus and Cupids try to stop him -> Europe is suffering from Plunder, outrage and misery
    —door open - city at war
    — harmony, Fecundity and Charity are tortured
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Peter Paul Rubens - The fur )Helena Fourment as venus)

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  1. typical baroque female nude
  2. sensual, fleshy woman, mundane and even materialistic
  3. direct message - pleasure of life
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Anthony van Dyck - self portrait

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  1. important portraitist
  2. rosy flesh tone typical of Antwerp school
  3. youthful face with bright colour and neutral background
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Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of Charles I

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  1. became court painter of Charles II, England
  2. sitter rendered in an elegant pose
  3. portrayed in leisure activity - good understanding of English love for country life and sport
  4. English royal portraiture - distanced from classical Renaissance models
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Jan Bruegel the Elder

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  1. Antwerp school painters
  2. active in italy in his early life, returned to Antwerp later
  3. joined Rubens workshop as special assistant
  4. specialized in still life
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Clara Peeters

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  1. Antwerp school painters
  2. still life painter
  3. active in Holland and influenced Dutch still life painting
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Jan Bruegel the Elder - small bunch of flowers

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  1. Flemish tradition of rendering objects with meticulous precision
  2. flowers blossom in four seasons in the royal greenhouse
  3. including 1st tulips in the Netherlands
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Jan Bruegel the Elder - original sin

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  1. encyclopaedic genre of Baroque - contains within a single work a whole universe of scientific and natural observation
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Clara Peeters - still life with flowers

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  1. “breakfast piece” including bread, fruit and flowers - a wide variety of objects with different texture and temperature
  2. included a distort reflection of herself

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