class notes

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Baroque Era also known as age

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of expansion

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Baroque word comes from

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BARROCO, used to describe irregularly shaped pearl or the bizarre

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naturalism

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a style that refers to form, subject matter & content

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classicism

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a style characterized by order, structure, harmony, balance

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high baroque

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strong diagonals, dark/light contrasts, drama, energy, movement, swirling compositions

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Genre paintings

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Pictures of people doing everyday things

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Other name for Hals banquet scene

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Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of Saint Adrian

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images were not painted for mere decoration; they often carried moral connotations. The vanitas theme was an underlyin moral message in most of these paintings

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still lifes

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Latin: Remember u will die

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Momento More

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Still life where cup is knocked over

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Still life with Tazza, Claez

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Floral “time piece” still life

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Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch, Willem van Aelst

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Girl with the Pearl Earring known as

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Giaconda (Mona Lisa) of the North

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Girl w/ the Pearl Earring pose

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risque, slightly parted weet lips

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Example of vanitas paintings (Last Judgement painting in background)

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Woman with balance

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Woman with balance represents

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ability to balance the spiritual world with the material world

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Painted figures in a very naturalistic manner (2)

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Rembrandt/Caravaggio

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Parade painting longer title name

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The Company of Captain Cocq

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Young boy w/ grapes

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Sick Bacchus (Caravaggio)

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God Bacchus was God of

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wine

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Criticism in Calling of Saint Mathew

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SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS: Men more concerned with money than w/ what’s going on

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Upside down on cross painting

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Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio

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where is Crucifixion of St. Peter by Caravaggio?

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santa maria del popolo

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Jesus invites viewer into dinner

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Supper @ Emmaus (Caravaggio)

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breakdown f the “barrier” that separates the viewer from the figures themselves or the action in which they participate

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coextensive space

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Supper @ Emmaus contreversy

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Jesus had no beard, could've been modeled off of street peasant

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Mini Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius

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Guerchino's Aurora

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The expansion of Europe itself, combined with the increase of knowledge in various subjects, manifested in the visual arts through a phenomenon known as

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coextensive space

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looking up, the piece extends the space of the painting

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di sotto in su

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as if someone took a painting from a wall and moved to the ceiling

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quadro ripotato

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Who else did Guerchino mini apotheosis?

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Reni did Aurora

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Reni's Aurora was in

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Quadro Ripotato

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credited with spreading the baroque styles to northern europe

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peter paul rubens

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peter paul rubens was a ________ painter

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flemish

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Rubens did study of ________ but also warned against doing that too much

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statues

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Rubens transformation of copies of statues ______ + name of piece

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Sentaur becomes christ, cupid becomes saint peter in ECCE HOMO

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Rubens known for

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rich colors | + rubenesque body

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2 crowded triptychs

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Rubens, Raising of the Cross & Descent from cross

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Where are cross triptychs?

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antwerp cathedral

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There's a standing horse, two women & two men

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Peter Paul Rubens, "Rape (Abduction) of the Daughters of Leucippus"

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Mythological real life story

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The Medici Cycle by Rubens

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Scene is wavy and looks almost underwater

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The Allegory of the Outbreak of War by Rubens

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Europ is dropping her jewles Venus trying to pull mars away from war, alecto (a fury) trying to pull Mars TOWARDS war Plague and famine above a mother and child (the people who suffer the most) Bottom woman with hair thing is alegory for discord

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The Allegory of the Outbreak of War by Rubens

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Many women in this painting + cupids. Made to celebrate wedding

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The Garden of Love, Rubens

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Yoke (top left grabbing cupid), Venus (fountain), Helena 3 Graces representing Chastity beauty and love Venus in fountain, water rfom breast to create fountain

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The Garden of Love, Rubens

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Woman naked w/ black coat around waist

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Helena Fourment with Fur Cloak (Ruben's wife)