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Chapter 24: Baroque Art

Yenetsa Alejo
10-042015
Period: 2
A.P Art History

24-2

Title: Faade of Saint Peters

Artist: Carlo Maderno
Date: 1606-1612
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Travertine stone
Location: Vatican City, Italy
Context: One effect of the faade and lengthened
nave is to screen the view of the dome, so that the
building, from the front, has no vertical feature, except
from a distance

24-4

Title: Aerial view of Saint Peters

Artist: Date: 1506-1666
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Location: Vatican City, Italy
Context: -had to include an ancient obelisk the
Roman's brought from Egypt, and a fountain by
Maderno.

24-9

Title: Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini
Date: 1645 - 1652
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Marble
Location: Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della
Vittoria, Rome, Italy
Context: Was extremely controversial for the
sexual emotions depicted in the statue.

24-10

Title: Facade of San Carlo alle Quattro

Fontane
Artist: Francesco Borromini
Date: 1665-1676
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Location: Rome, Italy
Context: Faade doesn't match up with rest of
building, is rebelling against Renaissance
perfection

24-19

Title: The Calling of St Matthew

Artist: Caravaggio
Date: 1597-1601
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: San Luigi dei Francesi,Rome, Italy
Context: Matthew was a Jewish tax collector sometimes
also known as Levi the toll collector. Avaricious and
presumably money-mad, Matthew was to give up his
worldly possessions and take to the straight and narrow
path when Jesus called him into his service while Matthew
was working at the tax collector's stand at the Capernaum.

24-21

Title: Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Date: 1614-1620
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Florence, Italy
Context: In an era when female painters were
not easily accepted, Gentileschi was the first
female painter to become a member of the
Accademia di Arti del Disegno in Florence.

24-27

Title: Glorification of Saint Ignatius

Artist: Fra Andrea Pozzo
Date: 1691-1694
Style: Italian Baroque
Medium: Location: SantIgnazio, Rome, Italy
Context: Shows the heavens above the church
opening to allow the entrance of Saint Ignatius.
Saint Ignatius is being carried to Christ. He is
flanked by four figures that represent the
corners of the world.

24-33

Title: Las Meninas

Artist: Diego Velzquez
Date: 1656
Style: Spanish Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Context: A portrait of the Infanta Margarita,
daughter of Felipe IV (1605-1665),
surrounded by her servants or family in a
hall of Madrids Alczar Palace.

24-36

Title: Arrival of Marie de Medici at Marseilles

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Date: 1622-1625
Style: Flemish Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Louvre, Paris, France
Context: the picture is a bit more allegorical
than directly truthful, if that wasnt clear from
first glance. When you look at this picture, the
idea Rubens really wants us to take away is that
Marie de Medicis arrival in France was a big
deal.

24-38

Title: Birth of Venus

Artist: Anthony van Dyck
Date: 1635
Style: Flemish Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Louvre, Paris, France
Context: It depicts Charles dressed in
civilian clothing and standing next to a
horse as if resting on a hunt.

24-42

Title: Archers of St. Hadrian

Artist: Frans Hals
Date: 1633
Style: Dutch Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Context: Archer's of Saint Hadrian, is typical
in that the subject is one of the many Dutch
civic militia groups that claimed credit for
liberating the Dutch Republic from Spain.

24-45

Title: The Night Watch

Artist: Rembrandt
Date: 1642
Style: Dutch Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Context: It is evident that the scene takes
place in daylight, with the sun streaming down
from the top left. A further cleaning completed
in 1980 showed that the tones are
predominantly cool.

24-49

Title: Self-Portrait
Artist: Judith Leyster
Date: 1630
Style: Dutch Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: National Gallery of art, Washington
D.C, U.S
Context: The artiest draw herself as a way to
advertise her craft

24-53

Title: The Art of Painting

Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Date: 1670-1675
Style: Dutch Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
Austria
Context: The artist observes his model, who is
dressed as Clio, the muse of history; Clio wears
a crown of laurel on her head to denote honor,
glory, and eternal life

24-55

Title: Vanitas Still Life

Artist:Pieter Claesz
Date: 1630s
Style: Dutch Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Germanisches National museum,
Nuremberg, Germany
Context: Pieter Claesz uses various items to
showcase the notion of memento moro; for example
the overturned glass, drained to the very last drop,
seems to symbolize the briefness of worldly pleasures.

24-65

Title: Portrait of Louis XIV

Artist: Hyacinthe Rigaud
Date: 1701
Style: French Baroque
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Louvre, Paris, France
Context:, Louis XIV's ceremonial robes, elegant
stance, and haughty expression proclaim his
power over France.

24-67

Title: Versailles
Artist: Date: Begun in 1669
Style: French Baroque
Medium: Location: Versailles, France
Context: Built for Louis XIV court, he wanted to keep
them in his place as a way to control them.

24-74

Title: New Saint Pauls Cathedral

Artist: Sir Christopher Wren
Date: 1675-1710
Style: English Baroque
Medium: Location: London, England
Context: Built in place for the old Saint Paul,
which burned down in the great fire of 1666.