ArtH
3171: Baroque
Art Slide Review Lists – Exam 1
J. Dabbs
UMM, Spring 2009
Final update made, 2/26/09
Fig.#s
refer to the optional text, Baroque & Rococo, V. Hyde Minor; I’ve made links to images wherever possible.
If
a link is not working after a couple different attempts, please let me know –
thanks!
characteristics of each style and how they impacted 17th-century art.
I. High Renaissance
(c.1480 - 1520):
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519):
Last Supper, c.1497
II. Venetian
Renaissance (1500s):
Titian (c.1480-1576):
Pietà, c.1570-76
III. Mannerism
(c.1520 - 1580):
Parmigianino,
Madonna of the Long Neck, 1540
Michelangelo, Last
Judgment, Sistine Chapel, 1535-41
Bronzino, Martyrdom of St.
Lawrence,1550
TERMS/Names: pyramidal;
sfumato;
affetti; symmetry/asymmetry
Protestant Reformation; Catholic Counter-Reformation
Council of
CARAVAGGIO &
Baroque Naturalism
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571-1610:
Gypsy Fortune-Teller
(c.1593-95)
Still-life[Basket of Fruit] (1596-97; Minor, Fig. 6.25)
Bacchus (c.1595;
Minor, Fig. 5.5)
Medusa
(c.1598-99)
Love Conquers All
(Amor Vincit Omnia;
c.1602; Minor, fig. 5.6)
Michelangelo, Victory,
c.1527-30 (Minor, Fig. 5.7)
Rest on Flight into
Egypt, (1596-97)
Calling of St. Matthew
(Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei
Francesi; 1599-1600) Minor, Fig. 10.5
St.
Matthew and the Angel (Contarelli Chapel, 1602)
Conversion of St. Paul
(Cerasi Chapel, Sta. Maria del Popolo; 1600-01)
Martyrdom of St. Peter
(Cerasi Chapel; 1600-1601; Minor, Fig. 10.2)
Death of the Virgin
(1601-2)
The Entombment
(1602-4)
The Madonna of Loreto
(1604-05)
David with the Head of
Goliath (c. 1609)
Beheading of St. John
the Baptist (1608)
For more Caravaggio images, check out the Web Gallery of Art (not
comprehensive, but good!)
Terms: tenebrism; foreshortening; genre;
still-life; trompe l’oeil;
raking light
Names:
Cardinal del Monte; Vincenzo
Giustiniani;
Added: Baglione (17th-c biographer); Bellori (17th-C
biographer); Oratorians
“Caravaggisti”:
Orazio
Gentileschi:
The Lute Player,
c.1610
Judith and her
Maidservant, c.1610-12 [this is the best I could find on the
web]
ARTEMISIA
GENTILESCHI (1593-1652/3?):
Jerome David, Portrait of
Artemisia Gentileschi, engraving; c.1625-30
Susanna and
the Elders (1610)
compare Guercino’s version of same subject, 1619
Judith Decapitating Holofernes (Naples;
c.1612-13), Fig. 5.8
comp: Caravaggio, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c.1605, Fig.
5.9
Judith
Decapitating Holofernes (Florence, c.1621?)
Judith
and Her Maidservant, c.1625 [saw only very briefly, don’t have to
know]
Jael & Sisera, 1620
Lucretia, 1621 [dropped]
Penitent
Magdalene, c.1617-20 [dropped]
Self-portrait (?)
as Allegory of Painting (1630 or
1637?), Fig. 6.20
Term:
cangiantismo
Bathsheba,
1630s
Names: V. Stiattesi (A’s husband); Agostino Tassi
The Other Side of the Baroque: the Carracci & Classicism
ANNIBALE
CARRACCI
(1560-1609):
Boy
Drinking, c.1582
Added: The Bean Eater,
c.1580
Landscape, c.1590
[drawing of crippled boy – won’t be asked to ID, can’t find
on web and can’t scan]
San Ludovico
Altarpiece, c.1588 [I’m not finding another image on web;
so try to visually memorize]
Comp: Bronzino, Martyrdom of St.
Lawrence, 1550s
comp.: Titian, Pesaro Madonna (c.1519-26) – don’t
have to know, just general influence
comp: Correggio, Madonna of St.
Francis, c.1514-15 – didn’t see this, but
another source of influence
[drawing of crippled boy]
Hercules at the
Crossroads, 1595-97
comp.: The
Farnese Hercules, 4th
Farnese
Gallery ceiling (1597-1600; Rome)
[Fig.1.11]
*
Here’s a site with many of the individual
scenes
[compared to
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel
Ceiling, 1508-12; know how
similar/different]
Selected individual
scenes:
Triumph
of Bacchus and Ariadne
Venus
and Anchises [dropped]
Polyphemus Innamorato [In
Love]
Assumption of
the Virgin, 1601, Cerasi Chapel,
Sta. Maria
Comp: Caravaggio, Crucifixion of St. Peter,
1601
and Conversion of St. Paul
(in the same chapel)
comp: Raphael, Transfiguration, 1518
Self-portrait,
c.1604
Terms: Accademia degli Incamminati;
sacred conversation; sfumato; quadro riportato; affetti;
antithesis; meriviglia
(the “marvelous”)
Added: ignudi; herm; grisaille;
meta-painting
Names: Cardinal Odoardo Farnese
Carracci Followers: Reni
David & Goliath, c.1605
Massacre of the Innocents,
1611
Aurora, 1613-14; Rome, Villa (Minor, Fig. 9.12)
The Archangel St.
Michael, 1635
Cleopatra, 1638 [dropped]
TERMS: in
situ;
Names: Marino (poet)
GUERCINO [dropped for now; will also do ceiling frescoes later]
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