UNIT 19 STUDY GUIDE Baroque (1600 – 1750 ish) (AP Art History) Book Chapter 24—Popes, Peasants, Monarchs and Merchants: Baroque Art, Pages 689‐748 Helpful Text Box—Mercantile Prosperity: Developing an Open Art Market, p. 727 Background Info: Flanders: A Southern provinces of the Netherlands, under Spanish rule, officially Catholic, both church and state art commissions Dutch Republic: Northern provinces of the Netherlands, merchants and middle class commissions, Protestant, Holland was the largest of these seven provinces and its name was later adapted for the whole Terms be able to identify these by sight, explain these in relation to art, and know an example of each in relation to a work of art Thirty Years’ War (1618‐1648) Marie de’Medici
Treaty of Westphalia (1648) new secular art in the Dutch Republic: landscapes, genre, portraits, still‐life scientific method etching international economy Louis XIV (r.1661‐1715) Catholic Counter‐Reformation French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture tenebrism (founded 1648) genre Great Fire of London (1666) market driven art Art Works know these works by sight, title, date, medium, scale, and location (original location also if moved) and be able to explain and analyze these in relation to any concept, term, element, or principle Italy  Carlo Maderno, nave and facade of St. Peter’s, Vatican, Rome, 1606‐1612  Gianlorenzo Bernini, Baldacchino, St. Peter’s, Vatican, Rome, 1624‐1633  Gianlorenzo Bernini, piazza and colonnades of St. Peter’s, Vatican, Rome, designed 1656‐1667  Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623, marble  Gianlorenzo Bernini, interior of the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645‐1652 o The Ecstasy of St. Theresa, 1645‐1652, Cornaro Chapel  Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, interior 1638‐1641, facade 1665‐1676  Francesco Borromini, Chapel of Saint Ivo, College of the Sapienza, Rome, b.1642  Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, c.1597‐1601, oil on canvas  Caravaggio, Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, c.1601, oil on canvas  Caravaggio, Death of the Virgin, 1605‐1606, oil on canvas  Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes, c.1614‐1620, oil on canvas Spain  Francisco de Zurbarán, St. Serapion, 1628, oil on canvas  Diego Velázquez, Water Carrier of Seville, ca. 1619. Oil on canvas, 3’ 5 1/2” x 2’ 7 1/2”.  Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (Maids of Honor), 1656, oil on canvas Flanders  Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium, 1610, oil on panel  Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival of Marie de’Medici at Marseilles, 1622‐1625, oil on canvas  Anthony Van Dyck, Charles I Dismounted, c.1635, oil on canvas Dutch Republic  Frans Hals, Archers of Saint Hadrian, ca. 1633. Oil on canvas, approx. 6’ 9” x 11’.  Frans Hals, Malle Babbe, c.1650, oil on canvas  Rembrandt van Rijn, many self‐portraits  Rembrandt van Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632, oil on canvas  Rembrandt van Rijn, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642, oil on canvas  Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Preaching, c.1652, etching (with burin and drypoint)  Rembrandt van Rijn, Return of the Prodigal Son, c.1665, oil on canvas  Judith Leyster, Self‐Portrait, c.1630, oil on canvas  Jacob van Ruisdael, The Jewish Cemetery, 1655‐1660, oil on canvas  Jan Vermeer, The Letter, 1666, oil on canvas  Jan Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670‐1675, oil on canvas  Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s. Oil on panel, 1’ 2” x 1’ 11 1/2”. France  Georges de La Tour, St. Joseph the Carpenter, c.1645  Louis Le Nain, Family of Country People, c.1640, oil on canvas  Jacques Callot, The Hanging Tree from Miseries of War, 1621, etching  Nicholas Poussin, Abduction of the Sabine Women, c.1636‐1637, oil on canvas  Nicholas Poussin, Burial of Phocion, 1648, oil on canvas  Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun, east facade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667‐16  Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin‐Mansart, Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, b.1669  Hall of Mirrors (Galerie des Glaces), Palace of Versailles  André Le Nôtre, gardens of the Palace of Versailles England  Christopher Wren, new St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1675‐1710