Baroque Art Characteristics Powerful use of chiaroscuro. Contrasting of light and shadow. They range from brilliant to deep gloom. Dramatic compositions with strong diagonals and swirling action. Genre scenes – scenes that told stories of everyday life.

Caravaggio An Italian artist who influenced the work of Rembrandt and Dutch artists. He was a master of light and shadow. He unified complex compositions with dramatic effects. Martyrdom of St. Matthew, 1600

Bruegal A Flemish artist. His painting can be seen as a parable, a story that contains a symbolic message. Concerned with detail.

Bruegal Hunter in the Snow, 1565

Bruegal Peasant Wedding, 1568

Rembrandt Baroque artist from Holland. Dramatic use of light and shadow and strong contrast. Influenced by the spotlighting of the theater. Expressive portrait painter of groups and individuals. Work largely devoted to sacred subjects. Also painted mythological subjects.

Rembrandt created many ways of painting which allowed him to create more realistic representations. An example of one of his techniques would be the use of stippling. Stippling is when many dots put together with different colors, make up an image that looks very real. This relates to how computers work. There are many different pixels all of which have different colors, but when put together they create images. Rembrandt used mostly oil to create some of his famous masterpieces. Rembrandt being Dutch, his paintings were based off of the Dutch Golden Age, a time of wealth and cultural achievement. Naturalism : Naturalism is a type of art that pays attention to very accurate and precise details, and portrays things as they are.

Rembrandt The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632

Rembrandt Detail of Anatomy Lesson

Rembrandt Self-portrait with Saskia, 1636 Etching

Rembrandt Self-portrait, 1640 Oil on canvas

Rembrandt The Night Watch, 1642 Corporate portraits-each person in painting paid to be in it.

Rembrandt The Mill, 1650 Oil on canvas

Rembrandt Lion Resting, , pen & ink

Rembrandt Self-portrait, 1660 Oil on canvas

Rubens Captured the dynamic spirit of the Baroque style. He used rich colors, dramatic design and powerful, twisting figures. Used light to illuminate the important parts of his paintings.

Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century. Mannerism is notable for its intellectual sophistication as well as its artificial (as opposed to naturalistic) qualities. Mannerism favors compositional tension and instability rather than the balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance painting. Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish painter, considered the most important of the 17th century, whose style came to define the animated, exuberantly sensuous aspects of baroque painting. Combining the bold brushwork, luminous color, and shimmering light of the Venetian school Rubens created a vibrant style, with an energy that emanates from tensions between the intellectual and the emotional, the classical and the romantic.

Rubens Daniel in the Lion Den, 1615

Rubens Dance of the Villagers, 1636

Rubens Self-portrait,

Comparison of Rembrandt and Rubens Descent from the Cross, Rembrandt Descent from the Cross, Rubens