baroque art

baroque art

1. PAINTING IN CATHOLICS COUNTRIES

   • the Italian school
     • Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio
       • was the father of tenebrism
         • characteristics
           • an abrupt contrast between dark backgrounds and sources of lights
       • The Entombment of Christ (1604)
   • the French school
     • Nicolas Poussin
       • strict rules of composition and drawing
     • Louis Le Nain
       • popular figures
       • Peasant Family in an interior (1642)
     • Georges de La Tour
       • chiaroscuro
   • the Flemish school
     • Peter Paul Rubens
       • characteristics
         • predominance of colour over drawing,movement and sensuality
       • The Three Graces ( 1639)

2. the height of realistic paintings

   • focus on light
   • colour over drawing
   • realism
   • movement in the compositions

3. PAINTING IN THE PROTESTAN COUNTRY

   • Rembrandt van Rijn
     • The Night Watch (1642)
   • Frans Hals
     • The Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse Haarlem (1664)
   • Johannes Vermeer
     • Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)
   • Pieter de Hooch
     • A Woman Peeling Apples (1663)

4. The Golden Age of Spain

   • Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
     • Las Meninas (1656)
     • characteristics
       • "paint the air"
         • complex compositions with different planes and sources of light
           • realism and physological of the figures and the scenes
   • Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
     • Two Women at a Window (1660)
       • he painted realistic scenes from everyday
         • represented reality in a tender, idealised light
   • Francisco de Zurbarán
     • Still life with vessels (1650)
     • painted female saints
   • José de Ribera
     • Saint Andrews (1631)
     • known as "the spalognetto"
       • he was from xátiva but worked in Italy

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