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DES•201 Art History

Lecture Outline

The Baroque & Rococo

Europe from about 1600 to 1750

  1. The Baroque in Italy
    1. Carlo Maderno and St. Peter's
    2. Gianlorenzo Bernini
    3. Francesco Borromini
    4. Annibale Carracci
    5. Andrea Pozzo
    6. Caravaggio
    7. Artemisia Gentileschi
  2. The Baroque in Flanders and Spain
    1. Peter Paul Rubens
    2. Diego Velázquez
  3. The Baroque in France
    1. Nicolas Poussin
    2. Claude Lorrain
    3. Louis XIV
    4. François Giradon
    5. Claude Perrault
    6. The Louvre and Versailles
  4. The Baroque in the Netherlands
    1. Jacob van Ruisdael
    2. William Heda
    3. Pieter Claesz
    4. Rachel Ruysch
    5. Judith Leyster
    6. Frans Hals
    7. Rembrandt van Rijn
    8. Jan Vermeer
  5. Rococo
    1. François de Cuvilliés
    2. Antoine Watteau
    3. Clodion
    4. François Boucher
    5. Jean-Honore Fragonard

Counter Reformation

piazza

baldacchino

David by Bernini

Ecstacy of Saint Theresa by Bernini

The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio

tenebrism

Arrival of Marie de' Medici by Rubens

genre scene

Las Meninas by Valazquez

Et in Arcadia Ego by Poussin

Romain du Roi

Archers of Saint Hadrian by Hals

Night Watch by Rembrandt

etching

Poussinistes

Rubénistes

fete galante

Departure from the Island of Cythera by Watteau

The Swing by Fragonard