Baroque painting

Baroque painting

1. Painting un Catholic countries

   • Italian school
     • Caravaggio (Tenebrism)
   • French school
     • Nicolas Poussin, chiaroscuro
   • Flemish school
     • Rubens (colour, movement and sensuality)

2. Features in baroque paintings

   • Colour over drawing
   • Focus on light
   • Realism
   • Movement in the composition

3. Golden age of the Dutch painting

   • Painters started to address new subjects
     • A Woman Pealing Apples, 1663
     • The Regentesses of Old Men’s Almshouse Haaarlem, 1664
     • Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
     • The Night Watch, 1642

4. Painters in the 17th century

   • First half
     • Alonso Cano
     • Francisco Zurbarán
     • Diego Velázquez
     • José de Ribera
   • Second half
     • Murillo
     • Juan de Valdés Leal
     • Claudio Coello
     • Juan Carreño de Miranda

5. More about them

   • Velázquez
     • A máster with the use of light, complex situations and the realism ni his scenes
   • Zurbarán
     • He was influenced with tenebrism but he painted and was a master in realistic pictures
   • Murillo
     • Murillo represented reality in a trend, idealised light, characteristics of his style of painting
   • Ribera
     • Known as Spagnoletto was a genios sin tenebrism

6. Golden age of Spainsh painting

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