This document provides an overview of European art and history from the Baroque period. It discusses key artistic styles, artists, and works from the 17th century in countries like France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Major topics covered include the Counter Reformation, the development of Baroque art as Catholic propaganda, and influential artists like Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Poussin. The document also briefly outlines scientific developments and provides biographical details of French kings like Louis XIV during this time period.

1. T, R, 12-1:20PM
Professor Paige Prater

2.  STYLE featuring:
 Drama
 Intensity of
emotion
 Extreme skill
 Naturalism
“If it’s not Baroque, don’t fix it.”
- Cogsworth

3.  France: resurgence of classicism
 Monarchy
 Counter-Reformation
 Netherlands: portraiture, still life, landscape,
and genre

4. • St. Ignatius of Loyola – Society of Jesus
• Counter-Reformation
• Art as propaganda
• Art as reinvigorator of belief/practice
• Spiritual ecstasy

5.  St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa
Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1645-1652. Marble, 11’ 6”.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcJvjP9zgY&index=8&list=PLB56EEA2D
AB1F1CD6

7.  Pope Paul V Borghese (pontificate 1605-1621)
Longitudinal nave and new facade

8.  Baldacchino, St.
Peter’s Basilica,
Vatican, Rome.
1624-1633. Gilt
bronze, 100’.
• Cathedra Petri,
1657-1666, gilt
bronze, marble,
stucco, and glass.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=YmzkN4iqvuk&list
=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&i
ndex=5

9.  David. 1623,
Marble, 5’ 7”,
Galleria
Borghese,
Rome.

10.  Apollo &
Daphne,
1622-1625,
marble
 https://www.y
outube.com/wa
tch?v=e3RSRrU
L1Os&index=6
&list=PLB56EE
A2DAB1F1CD6

12.  Bolognese painter, Annibale Carracci, Ceiling of
Gallery, Palazzo Farnese, Rome. 1597-1601.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR9ad67Ftv0&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&ind
ex=17

13.  Bacchus, 1595-
1596. Oil on
canvas, 37” x
33.5”, Galleria
degli Uffizi,
Florence.

14.  The Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria
del Popolo, Rome, c. 1601. Oil on canvas, 7’ 6” x 5’ 8”

16.  Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel,
church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. 1599-1600. Oil on
canvas, 10’ 7.5” x 11’ 2”.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZF5K8epWko&index=11&list=PLB56EEA2
DAB1F1CD6

17.  Judith Beheading
Holofernes, c. 1619-20.
Oil on canvas, 6’
63/8” x 5’ 4”, Galleria
degli Uffizi, Florence.

18.  Worked for Bernini, who worshiped at Il Gesu
 Illusionistic Baroque ceiling

19. The Triumph of the Name of
Jesus and Fall of the
Damned,
Vault of the church of Il
Gesu, Rome, 1672-1685.
Fresco with stucco figures
http://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=aj2el_owSg4
&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F
1CD6&index=24

20.  Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c. 1602.
Oil on canvas, 27 1/8” x 33 ¼”. San Diego Museum of Art.

21.  Water Carrier of Seville, c.
1619. Oil on canvas, 41 ½”
x 31 ½” . Victoria and
Albert Museum, London.

22.  The Surrender at Breda (The Lances), 1634-1635. Oil
on canvas, 10’7/8” x 12’ ½”. Museo del Prado,
Madrid.

23.  Las Meninas, 1656.
Oil on canvas, 10’
5” x 9’ ½”. Museo
del Prado, Madrid.
 http://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=Ii
TtGENiVOA&list=
PLB56EEA2DAB1F
1CD6&index=39

24.  Self-Portrait with
Isabella Brandt,
1609-1610. Oil
on canvas, 5’ 9”
x 4’ 5”. Alte
Pinakothek,
Munich.

25.  The Raising of the Cross, 1610-1611. Oil on panel, center panel 15’
1 7/8”x 11’ ½”. Each wing 15’ 1 7/8” x 4’ 11”. Now in Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.

26.  The Consequences of War, 1638-1639. Oil on canvas, Palatine
Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9iMsmhBOjk&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6&index=26

27.  Henry IV Receiving the
Portrait of Marie de’
Medici, 1621-1625. Oil
on canvas, 12’ 11 1/8”
x 9’ 8 1/8”. Musée du
Louvre, Paris

28.  Clara Peeters, Still Life with Flowers, Goblet,
Dried Fruit, and Pretzels, 1611. Oil on panel, 20 ½” x 28 ¾”
Museo del Prado, Madrid.

29.  Joos van
Craesbeeck,
The Smoker,
17th century,
oil on canvas,
Musée du
Louvre, Paris.

30.  Frans Hals,
Malle Babbe, c.
1630-1633. Oil
on canvas, 30
7/8” x 26”.
Staatliche
Museen,
Berlin.

31.  Frans Hals, Officers of the Haarlem Militia Company of St.
Adrian, c. 1627. Oil on canvas, 6’ x 8’ 8”. Frans
Halsmuseum, Haarlem.

32.  Judith Leyster,
Self-Portrait,
1635. Oil on
canvas, 29
3/8” x 25
5/8”. National
Gallery of Art,
Washington,
DC.
 https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=xt2M4
HTw29A&list=PLB5
6EEA2DAB1F1CD6
&index=48

33. Oil on
canvas, 52
5/8” x 40
7/8”.
The Frick
Collection,
New York.

34.  The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas,
5’ 3 ¾” x 7’ 1 ¼”. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

35.  The Baroque: Rubens vs. Rembrandt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4HzOuV
QgU4&index=2&list=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6

36.  View of Delft, 1662. Oil on canvas, 38 ½” x 46 ¼” Royal
Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis, The Hague.

37.  Jacob van
Ruisdael,
View of
Haarlem from
the Dunes at
Overveen, c.
1670. Oil on
canvas, 22” x
24 ¼”. Royal
Picture
Gallery,
Mauritshuis,
The Hague.

38. • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
England
• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
France
• Logic and scrupulous
objectivity
• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
-planets rotate in elliptical
orbits around sun
• SMALL to VAST studies of
space
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek
(1632-1723) Dutch lens maker;
inventor of the microscope
“wee beasties”
Anna Maria Sibylla Merian, Coral Tree
and Eye Spinner, 1719, 11.8” x 15.7”

39.  Oil on canvas, 30” x
24”. The Toledo
Museum of Art,
Ohio.

40.  Foreign and civil wars
 King Henry IV assassinated in 1610; Marie de’
Medici (queen) rules as regent until 1617
 1635: Cardinal Richelieu founds the French Royal
Academy
 1648: Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
 Louis XIII dies; 5 year old Louis the XIV (le Roi
Soleil) ruled in 1661 after death of Cardinal
Mazarin
 Louis XIV, ABSOLUTE MONARCH: longest reign
in Europe

41.  Hyacinthe Rigaud,
Louis XIV, 1701. Oil
on canvas, 9’ 2” x 7’
10 ¾”, Musée du
Louvre, Paris

42. Hall of Mirrors, begun 1678, approximately 240’
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=852eroBwDrA

43.  Bird’s Eye View of the Gardens of Versaille, 19th century.

44.  Landscape with St. John on Patmos, 1640. Oil on canvas, 39 ½” x 53
5/8”. The Art Institute of Chicago.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_EFdOjtok&index=29&li
st=PLB56EEA2DAB1F1CD6