1. Dutch Baroque The Dutch School

2. Dutch Baroque 1610-1670 Dutch Reform churches didn’t need art The usual patrons of the art – nobles and the Church were absent ** This led to a “democratization” of art in subject matter and ownership Still life Landscape Portraits Family Scenes

3. Characteristics Early Used dramatic light/dark contrasts Design seemed to burst the frame Groups of figures Based on physical action Vigorous, melodramatic tone Highly finished, detailed technique Late Used golden-brown tones, subtle shading Static, brooding atmosphere Scenes simplified with a single subject Implied psychological reaction Quiet, solemn mood Painted with broad, thick strokes

4. Baroque Art Religious – In Catholic countries Dramatic Emphasis on light and shadow Monumental – the aristocracy, battle scenes

5. Rembrandt “The Night Watch, 1642

6. Rembrandt – “The Syndics of the Drapers Guild” - 1662

7. Ruisdael, “Windmill at Wijk-bij-Duurst-ede 1665

8. Vermeer – The Girl with the Pearl Earing

9. Vermeer – The Geographer, 1668

10. Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1601 (Italian)

11. Bernini, “The Ecstasy of St. Theresa,” 1645-52

12. Velazquez “Las Meninas,” 1656

13. William Hogarth “The Breakfast Scene” (English) 1745

14. French Rococo Reflected the “frivolous” existence of the aristocracy(nobility) Playful, superficial, energetic, light, graceful, delicate White, silver, gold, light pinks, blues and greens Gilded woodwork, painted panels Enormous wall mirrors

15. Jean- Honoré Fragonard “The Swing”

16. Francois Boucher “Allegory of Painting”

17. Antoine Watteau The Song of Love