Characteristics of the Baroque?

Characteristics of the Baroque?

Old techniques put to new uses – ca. 1580 feather paintings fromMichoacan, Mexico – Juan Baptista Cuiris, artist. The Virgin and Jesus at the age of 12. Based on prints from Europe – circulation of imgs

Old techniques put to new uses

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Farrukh Beg, A Sufi sage, after the European personification of melancholia, Dolor. Mughal court at Agra, dated 1615. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper. Painting: 7 5/8 x 5 9/16 in. (19.4 x 14.1 cm). Page: 15 1/16 x 10 1/16 in. (38.2 x 25.6 cm). Museum of Islamic

Art,Doha

Raphael Sadeler (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1560–1628 Venice (?)) Artist: After Maarten de Vos (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1532–1603 Antwerp) Date: Antwerp 1560–1628 Venice? Medium: Engraving Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (22.2 x 26 cm)

The Board of the Drapers’ Guild (“Syndics”), 1662 – Note the Turkish carpet as tablecloth

"Negress" Lying Down, 1658Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)

Etching, drypoint, engraving

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862 (oil on

canvas), Louvre, Paris 

Perhaps the first iteration of “otherizing” that was to lead to 19th century “Orientalist” paintings - Netherlands interested in other people at same time as it founds “New Amsterdam” and begins colony in today’s South Africa

Ozmo, Big Fish Eat Little Fish, London, 2011 – aerosol on wall

Frontispiece, showing Ole Worm's cabinet of curiosities, from ''Museum

Wormianum'', 1655. – The beginning of the age of the museum

Portraiture

Joseph Wright, The Corinthian Maid, 19th cent.

•Desire to create a likeness of a living person, perhaps known to the artist, or a patron •Idea that the image should be created in the presence of the person being depicted•Sometimes, idea of memorializing the person, or idea that the portrait will stand in the person’s place•In 17th cent Dutch, portraits called naer het leven, from the life, and conterfeytsel, an imitation, or, a counterfeit.

Olmec head, La Venta, Olmec culture, ca. 800 BC

Portraits through time, in a wide variety of media and formats

Jagat Singh II and sons, 1750

This is NOT a portrait, even if we had firm evidence that the figure of Mary was said at the time to look very much like a well-known noblewoman.*Why is this not a portrait?

*Just an example, I have no suchEvidence in this case.

Self portrait of 1629

•With self portraits, there is no outside patron•Desire to depict oneself --In Rembrandt’s case, as an artist, perhaps with tools of the trade•Self-knowledge and/or self-promotion as possible goals of these works

The Artist in his Studio, 1629

Judith Leyster. Self-Portrait. 1635. 29 3/8 × 25 5/8”.

canvas

gesso

glazes

Diagram of effect of light on layered oil painting

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gesso

ImpastoDiagram of effect of heavy impasto on surface texture, light and shadow