ArtH 3171 Baroque Art
UMM – Prof. Dabbs
Spring 2009
BERNINI & Baroque Sculpture
I.
Before Bernini:
Maderno, Sta.
Cecilia, 1600
II. Bernini’s early masterpieces:
(all for Card. Scipione Borghese)
Very good Bernini site (although not
comprehensive)
Pluto and Proserpina,
1621-22
-
Frontal
view, color
-
fantastic detail
(check this out!)
compared
to: Giovanni da Bologna, Rape [Abduction] of the
Sabine Woman, 1579-83 [Mannerist
style; know differences with Bernini’s]
Apollo and Daphne,
1622-25
- another
full view, color
- detail of heads (beautiful!)
David, 1623-24
comp. to: Michelangelo, David,
1505
Annib.
Carracci, Polyphemus
Enraged, Farnese Gallery, 1605
II.
Bernini & Co. at St. Peter’s:
Ground plan with locations
of art works (mainly, good to know locations of the 4 statues of saints
around the baldacchino – a diagram of this was given out in class]
Bernini,
St. Longinus, 1629-38 [another image at http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=133&page=6 then page down]
Duquesnoy, St. Andrew,
1629-40
Mochi, St. Veronica,
1629-32
Andrea Bolgi, St. Helen, 1630-39
Bernini, The Baldacchino, St. Peter's,
Bernini,
The Throne of
St. Peter [aka Cathedra Petri],
1657-66 *page
down at this site
[dropped] Maderno, façade for
St. Peter’s, 1607-12 *this site has useful additional info on St. Peter’s
Here’s a 17th-century painting
showing Bernini’s
bell-towers [just for fun; didn’t
see this in class]
[dropped]
Bernini, Colonnades for the Piazza of St. Peter's, 1656-67, (fig. 3.7 diagram)
Aerial view of St.
Peter’s/colonnades
Additional background on
Italy
Cyberguide (good overview, includes plans)
Student
website (good),
[added]
Bernini, Triton
Fountain, 1642-43
[added]
Bernini, Elephant
& Obelisk, 1665-67
[added]
Bernini, Costanza
Bonarelli, 1635-36
IV.
The Ecstatic Baroque:
Bernini, Ecstasy
of St. Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Sta. Maria della Vittoria
(1647-52) Figs. 1.5, 5.14;
- good detail view
- my shot of most of the
chapel
Bernini,
Blessed Ludovica Albertoni,
1671-74 [page down at this site]
Baroque Ceiling
Paintings:
[dropped: PIETRO DA CORTONA, Glorification
of the Papacy of Urban VIII, [also called Triumph of Divine Providence]
(Palazzo Barberini, 1633-39)
(Fig. 4.32)
GAULLI,
Triumph of
the Holy Name of Jesus, 1672-85 (Fig. 1.14) [
Another view of ceiling, more of context
POZZO, Allegory
of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits, 1691-94 (Fig. 4.26)
(Church
of Sant’ Ignazio)
-
partial view,
not from ideal vantage point
Names: Maffeo Barberini, a.k.a. Pope Urban VIII
Terms:
dal di sotto in su
King Louis XIV:
Perrault, Le Vau, Le Brun, The
Louvre (east façade), 1667-70
Bernini’s
design for The Louvre
Le
Vau & Le Nôtre, Vaux-le-Vicomte (chateau of N. Fouquet), 1657-61 (Minor,
figs. 9.13,9.14):
Official website of the
chateau [great photos, including 360’s, and a nice video clip]
Le
Vau, Le Nôtre & Le Brun, Palace
of Versailles, garden façade 1669-85 (Minor, figs. 8.28, 8.29, 8.30)
[note: Le Vau
principally responsible for the architecture; Le Nôtre the gardens; Le Brun the
painting and overall artistic director]
Girardon, Apollo
& the Nymphs of Thetis, 1666-75
Le
Brun (paintings) and Hardouin-Mansart (architecture), Galerie
des Glaces[or, Hall of Mirrors]
bg 1678 (fig. 8.31)
[page down at this
website, it will give you a 360 view of the hall]
Charles Le Brun, The King Governs
by Himself, 1681 (fig. 8.32) [not
finding on web, won’t have to know]
Rigaud, Portrait of Louis XIV,
1701 (fig. 2.13) [dropped]
Terms: rectilinear; pavillion
Check
out the official website of the Chateau of Versailles if you’d
like!
Other Versailles links
The Gallery of Marie de’ Medici, Queen
of
All
paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622-25, originally for the
See complete listing and links at: http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubensbio.html#Life%20of%20Marie
Especially look at: The Education of M de
Medici;
Henri IV Receiving the
Portrait of M de Medici
The
Council of the Gods [dropped]
Rubens, Portrait of Marie de’ Medici as Bellona, 1622 Rubens, Helene Fourment as Aphrodite, 1630s
Compared to: Titian, Woman in a Fur Coat, c1540 [don’t have to know] Velazquez: The Water Seller of Seville, 1623 Sebastian de Morra, c.1645
Don Diego de Acedo [“El Primo”], 1623
[dropped] Juan de
Pareja,
1649-50
Las Meninas [The Ladies-in-Waiting], 1656 *for discussion Friday - LOOK carefully at this complex painting; who, or what, is it about?
[see the Web Gallery of Art for details]
REMBRANDT (“Soul Man” of the Baroque)
Self-portrait,
1630 [etching ]
The Artist
in his Studio, c1629
Self-portrait in Oriental Costume,
with Dog, 1631 [sorry this is a
commercial site, but all I could find!]
Self-portrait
as the Apostle Paul, 1661
Self-portrait
[with Two Circles],
c1663
Self-portrait,
1658 [Nat’l
The Anatomy
Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632
The Night
Watch [Frans Banning Cocq Mustering His Company],
1642
Blinding of
Samson, 1636 (Fig. 1.7)
Woman
Bathing (Hendricke), 1654
The Jewish
Bride, c1665
[dropped] Return of
the Prodigal Son, c1665
Rembrandt or not? The
Philospher, c1653 [see below]

Also check: Girl with Broom,
c.1646-51
Names/Terms:
Rembrandt Research
Project (click on for website link)
etching; impasto;
connoisseur (person)/ connoisseurship (activity); history painting; provenance;
trony/tronie
*to
know; Rembrandt’s style and its
development; Rembrandt and
intentionality of self-portraits
[have dropped the still-life section, sorry!]
GENRE
PAINTING:
Judith Leyster:
Self-portrait at Easel,
1630
Compared to Frans Hals, Willem Coymans; won’t have to know]
The
Merry Company, c.1630
[dropped]
Young Flute Player,
c.1630-35
The Proposition,
1631
Compared to: Honthorst, The Procuress,
1625 [don’t have to know the Honthorst for ID purposes]
Jan
Steen:
The Dissolute Household, 1668
[dropped]
The Feast
of St. Nicholas, 1660
[dropped] The
Drawing Lesson, 1665
The Severe Teacher,
c.1668
[excellent Vermeer site: //www.essentialvermeer.20m.com/
Woman with Water
Pitcher, c1664
Woman Holding a
Balance, c.1662
Woman in Blue
Reading a Letter, 1662‑64
Girl with Pearl
Earring, c1665
The
Art of Painting, c.1664 [won’t have to know since the subject of a student
presentation]
Essay Question for the Exam (can either
write in class, or as a take-home; limit to 2-3 pages; hard-copy or email to me
by Friday Apr. 24); worth 25 pts.
Baroque Meta-paintings: Compare and contrast 3 different works of
art (seen in class, any time this semester) that might be
considered
“meta-paintings.” In what ways do they
illustrate some of the central concerns/ideas of Baroque art, and
the ideas & roles of the
artist?
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