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Gianlorenzo Bernini, Baldacchino, Saint Peter's, Rome, 1624-1633 11/21/2008 Survey of Western Art History II genre The Baroque Style in Western Europe podium Rococo and the Eighteenth Century rectilinear Terminology section silhouette baldacchino stylus Baroque tenebrism burr travertine camera obscura vanitas cantilever construction chateau clerestory Rococo drypoint chancel etching chinoiserie etching ground fleur‐de‐lys The French Academy hotel hierarchy of subject matter impasto gable (or pitched) roof molding pagoda stucco trompe l’oeil Gianlorenzo Bernini, baldacchino, Saint Peter's, Rome, 1624‐1633. Gilded bronze Gianlorenzo Bernini, aerial view of the colonnade and piazza of St. Peter’s, Rome, engraving by Giovanni Piranesi, 1750 1 11/21/2008 Francesco Borromini. Façade of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Saint Charles of the Four Fountains), Rome, 1665‐ 1667 Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun. East façade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667‐1670 Aerial view of the park and palace of Versailles, after a 17th‐century engraving by G. Pérelle Andre Le Notre, Versailles Gardens, Versailles, France, 1660s 2 11/21/2008 Jules Hardouin‐Mansart and Charles Le Brun. Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), Palace of Versailles, c. 1680. Gianlorenzo Bernini. Louis XlV, Gianlorenzo Bernini. Pluto and 1665. Marble, life‐sized. Versailles Proserpina, 1621‐1622. Marble, over life‐sized Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623. Marble, life‐sized 3 11/21/2008 Gianlorenzo Bernini. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645‐1652. Marble Annibale Carracci. Ceiling frescoes, detail of Venus and Anchises, in the Grand Gallery, Farnese Palace, Rome, 1597‐1601 Pietro da Cortona, Glorification of the Reign of Urban VIII, 1633‐1639. Palazzo Barberini, Rome 4 11/21/2008 Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Triumph of the Name of Jesus, 1676‐ 1679. The Church of ll Gesù, Rome Caravaggio. Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c. 1594. Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome Caravaggio. Medusa, c. 1597. Oil on canvas on a wooden shield Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, 1599‐1600 5 11/21/2008 Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601. Oil on canvas Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin, Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith and Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614‐ Her Maidservant with the head of 1620. Oil on canvas Holofernes, c. 1625. Oil on canvas 6 11/21/2008 Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Adonis, c. 1635. Oil on canvas. Peter Paul Rubens, The Straw Hat (Susanna Fourment), c. 1620‐1625 Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1610‐1611. Oil on panel 7 11/21/2008 Anthony van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback, c. 1638. Oil on canvas Rembrandt van Rijn, The Blinding of Samson (The Triumph of Delilah), 1636 Rembrandt van Rijn, Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (known as The Night Watch), 1642. Oil on canvas 8 11/21/2008 Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐portrait Leaning on a Sill (aged thirty‐four), 1640. Oil on canvas Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐ portrait as Saint Paul (aged fifty‐five), 1661. Oil on canvas Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐portrait, 1669. Oil on canvas Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier, 1624. Oil on canvas 9 11/21/2008 Judith Leyster, The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier). c. 1628‐29 Jan Vermeer, The Geographer, c. 1668. Oil on canvas Camera obscura, in cutaway view, 1646. Engraving. International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 10 11/21/2008 Johann Vermeer. Girl in a Red Hat, The Lace Maker, c.1669‐1671. Oil on canvas Jacob van Ruisdael, Extensive Landscape with Ruins, c. 1670. Oil on canvas Maria van Oosterwyck, Vanitas Still Life, 1668 11 11/21/2008 Diego Velázquez. Crucifixion, 1630s. Oil on canvas Diego Velázquez. Surrender of Breda, c. 1635. Oil on canvas Diego Velázquez, Venus with a Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), c. 1648. 12 11/21/2008 Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Nicolas Poussin, Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1626. Oil on canvas Nicolas Poussin, Dance of Human Life, 1638‐1640 Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c. 1640. Oil on canvas 13 11/21/2008 Nicholas Poussin, The Ashes of Phokion, 1648. Oil on canvas 14.
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