1. Agenda February Culture Projects Due NEXT FRIDAY!! To get: –Two Pieces of paper –If it ain’t Baroque…Reading To do: –Opener –Lecture w/ short Bernini video –Questions and reading –Look at test results

2. Opener – on your own paper Compare and contrast the Baroque painting by Caravaggio and the Renaissance painting by Jan van Eyck. How are the two different? How are they alike? (Focus on the body positions of the people and the subject matter. What is different about the background, middle ground and foreground of the two paintings?)

3. Caravaggio Jan van Eyck

4. Baroque 1600-1750 contrast of light, action, drama and extravagant style “Dramatic” lighting Influences: counter-reformation/absolute monarchy Built on/improved ideas/techniques of Renaissance

5. Baroque - Portuguese word; imperfect pearl (crawford and jewel pics) Chiaroscuro – main Baroque technique - contrast between light and dark. Tenebrism - Italian for "murky“ -figures emerge from the dark

7. Counter-Reformation – Response of Catholic Church to Protestant Reformation Absolutism – monarchy with supreme political power; controls every aspect of life Catholic Emotionalism - Intense religiosity that influenced Baroque art work

8. Caravaggio 1573-1610 Italian painter abandoned Renaissance rules of art did not idealize human/religious experience Religious figures portrayed as regular people imprisoned for assault and killing a tennis opponent-spent rest of life avoiding authorities Biblical scenes –Calling of St.Matthew –Conversion of St. Paul

9. Calling of St. Matthew

11. Conversion of St. Paul Most famous of his works

12. The Conversion of St. Paul Religious art was secularized Saints and miracles appeared to be ordinary events “down and dirty” style St Paul is on the ground, and you see the horse’s rear The audience is brought into the action through the use of chiaroscuro and perspective.

13. Gentileschi 1593 – 1652 female painter Influenced by Caravaggio Raped at 19 by art student/teacher painted women getting revenge against men Judith Slaying Holofernes

15. Italian Baroque Art/Architecture Gianlorenzo Bernini -1598-1680 -sculpture/architect -last of great artists to work for the popes -St. Peter’s Piazza -David -Ecstasy of St. Teresa -Cornaro Chapel

16. St. Peter’s Piazza

19. David

21. Ecstasy of St. Teresa

22. Cornaro Chapel

24. Bernini Video Intro

25. If it ain’t Baroque…… a Student’s perspective on Baroque and it’s musical greats article 1.How is the Baroque period like a teenager? 2.What was the time span of the Baroque period? 3.What four factors contributed to the development of Baroque Music? 4.How did the author use Cindy Crawford as a simile to Baroque? 5.Describe the following analogy given for the 3 qualities of Baroque music: a. Sharp contrast “manic depression” b. Ornamental toppings “banana split” c. Improvisation “spontaneous combustion” 6.Describe the contributions of the following people to the world during the Baroque period: a. Vivaldi b. Bach c. Handel

26. Agenda February Culture Projects Due Thursday (A2) and Friday (B4) To get: –St. Teresa Reading –Bernini Video Question Sheet – do your opener on the back! To do: –Opener – St. T Reading w/ questions –Continue Lecture – Rembrandt/Ryusch/Vermeer –Bernini Video Questions

27. St. Teresa Reading Short Video After Opener 1. Describe the angel in St. Teresa’s diary. 2. What was he on fire with? 3. What sort of “pain” was she experiencing? 4. After this experience St. Teresa says that the soul is not content with what?

28. Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669 From Amsterdam/Netherlands Mastered all popular subjects –Religious/historical themes from Italy –Daily life/people from Holland

29. Painter, draftsman, and etcher of the 17th century; the greatest artist of the Dutch school luxurious brushwork, rich color, and a mastery of chiaroscuro (the use of light and shadow). His drawings constitute a vivid record of contemporary Amsterdam. influenced by the work of Caravaggio

30. Rembrandt If he had no model, he painted or sketched himself. He painted between 50 to 60 self- portraits. In 1636 Rembrandt began to depict quieter, more contemplative scenes with a new warmth in color. During the next few years three of his four children died in infancy, and in 1642 his wife died. In the 1630s and 1640s he made many landscape drawings and etchings. His landscape paintings are imaginative, rich portrayals of the land around him.

31. Self -Portraits

32. Rembrandt Rembrandt was at his most inventive in this work, popularly known as The Night Watch, 1642. Each man is painted with the care that Rembrandt gave to single portraits, yet the composition is such that the separate figures are second in interest to the effect of the whole. The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

33. The Mill (1650) The Mill (1650)

34. Rembrandt The Return of the Prodigal Son (ca. 1662)

35. Christ Healing the Sick – etching

36. Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulip

37. Rachel Ruysch 1664-1750 Dutch paintings for domestic interiors Sold at craft markets Flowers in a Vase (Why would Protestant artists paint still-lifes and landscape pictures?)

38. Flowers in a Vase

39. Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675 Dutch Genre scenes Master of light and color Allegory of Painting The Milkmaid

40. Allegory of Painting

41. The Milkmaid

42. What about the English? Best known in poetry and writing John Donne John Milton John Locke -social contract -give up some freedoms for greater good -liberalism -personal freedoms are most important

43. Continue Video Bernini Be sure to answer the questions on the sheet provided. Your opener should be on the back. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9

44. Bernini Questions (copy and leave room for your answer – 40 points) While watching Simon Schama’s The Power of Art Bernini, answer the following questions: 1) Describe the early life of Bernini. Was he talented from the very beginning? Who pushed him to do art work? Who did he impress? 2) Bernini’s sculptures are known for showing what? 3) In one sculpture, Bernini shows a character suffering extreme pain. How did he inspire himself to create this sculpture? 4) Describe Bernini’s Apollo and Dauphine. 5) What is Bernini’s relationship to Rome? 6) Why was Bernini’s bust of Constance revolutionary? What made it unique from previous busts? 7) What happened to Constance? Why? 8) What design was Bernini’s downfall? Why was it a failure? 9) What piece of work revitalized Bernini’s career? 10) Describe this piece.