1. What do you notice about the music?

2. Art in the Era of Absolutism Baroque Art: 17th Century Art of the Monarchs, late Reformation and Counter Reformation Paintings & sculptures in church contexts should speak to the illiterate rather than the well-informed Religious in Italy, Spain and France More Secular in the North, England Rococo Art: 1730’s-1770’s Most popular in France and Germany Emphasize grace and gentle movement

3. Baroque Art 1600 – 1750. Implies strangeness, irregularity, & extravagance. The more dramatic, the better Strong diagonals and use of light. Colors were brighter than bright; darks were darker than dark. appeal to emotions.

4. The Conversion of St Paul

6. Boy Bitten by a Lizard Caravaggio 1594

8. Judith Beheading Holsfernes Caravaggio 1598

9. Ecstasy of St. Teresa Bernini 1647

10. Comparing Renaissance and Baroque- Michelangelo’s David and Bernini’s David David Michaelangelo 1504 David Bernini 1623

12. Dutch Golden Age 1630-1670 people are patrons; visual accuracy; studies of light Still Life’s Claesz Heda Heem Landscape Ruisdael Cuyp Genre and Portrait Hals Rembrandt Maes Vermeer Steen

14. The Nightwatch (detail) Rembrandt 1642

15. Rembrandt - The Sampling Officials of the Drapers Guild 1662

16. 1660 Self Portraits 1669

17. The Milkmaid Vermeer 1658

18. France: Rococo Rococo 1725-1775 ornate, shell-like, playful, sinuous; ornate architecture and palaces; monarchy and nobility;

19. Pilgrimage to Cythera Watteau 1717