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Survey of Western Art History IIThe Baroque Style in Western EuropeRococo and the Eighteenth CenturyTerminology

baldacchinoBaroqueburrcamera obscuracantilever construction

genrepodiumrectilinearsectionsilhouettestylustenebrismtravertinevanitas

chateauclerestorydrypointetchingetching groundThe French Academy

hierarchy of subject mattergable (or pitched) roof

Rococochancelchinoiseriefleur‐de‐lyshotelimpastomoldingpagodastuccotrompe l’oeil

Gianlorenzo Bernini,baldacchino, Saint Peter's, Rome, 1624‐1633. Gilded bronze

Gianlorenzo Bernini, aerial view of the colonnade and piazza of St. Peter’s, Rome, engraving by Giovanni Piranesi, 1750

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Francesco Borromini. Façade of San Carlo alleQuattro Fontane (Saint Charles of the Four Fountains), Rome, 1665‐1667

Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and Charles Le Brun. East façade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667‐1670

Aerial view of the park and palace of Versailles, after a 17th‐century engraving by G. Pérelle

Andre Le Notre, Versailles Gardens, Versailles, France, 1660s

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Jules Hardouin‐Mansart and Charles Le Brun. Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), Palace of Versailles, c. 1680.

Gianlorenzo Bernini. Louis XlV, 1665. Marble, life‐sized. Versailles

Gianlorenzo Bernini. Pluto and Proserpina, 1621‐1622. Marble, over life‐sized

Gianlorenzo Bernini, David, 1623. Marble, life‐sized

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Gianlorenzo Bernini. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645‐1652. Marble

Annibale Carracci. Ceiling frescoes, detail of Venus and Anchises, in the Grand Gallery, Farnese Palace, Rome, 1597‐1601

Pietro da Cortona, Glorification of the Reign of Urban VIII, 1633‐1639. Palazzo Barberini, Rome

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Giovanni Battista Gaulli. Triumph of the Name of Jesus, 1676‐1679. The Church of ll Gesù, Rome

Caravaggio. Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c. 1594. Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome

Caravaggio. Medusa, c. 1597. Oil on canvas on a wooden shield

Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome, 1599‐1600

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Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601. Oil on canvas

Caravaggio, The Death of the Virgin,

Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614‐1620. Oil on canvas

Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith and Her Maidservant with the head of Holofernes, c. 1625. Oil on canvas

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Peter Paul Rubens, Venus and Adonis, c. 1635. Oil on canvas.

Peter Paul Rubens, The Straw Hat (Susanna Fourment), c. 1620‐1625

Peter Paul Rubens, The Raising of the Cross, 1610‐1611. Oil on panelp

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Anthony van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback, c. 1638. Oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Blinding of Samson (The Triumph of Delilah), 1636

Rembrandt van Rijn, Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq(known as The Night Watch), 1642. Oil on canvas

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐portrait Leaning on a Sill (aged thirty‐four), 1640. Oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐portrait as Saint Paul (aged fifty‐five), 1661. Oil on canvas

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self‐portrait, 1669. Oil on canvas

Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier, 1624. Oil on canvas

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Judith Leyster, The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier). c. 1628‐29

Jan Vermeer, The Geographer,c. 1668. Oil on canvas

Camera obscura, in cutaway view, 1646. Engraving. International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

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Johann Vermeer. Girl in a Red Hat, The Lace Maker, c.1669‐1671. Oil on canvas

Jacob van Ruisdael, Extensive Landscape with Ruins, c. 1670. Oil on canvas

Maria van Oosterwyck, VanitasStill Life, 1668

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Diego Velázquez. Crucifixion, 1630s. Oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez. Surrender of Breda, c. 1635. Oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez, Venus with a Mirror (The Rokeby Venus), c. 1648.

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Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Nicolas Poussin,Nicolas Poussin, Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1626. Oil on canvas

Nicolas Poussin, Dance of Human Life, 1638‐1640

Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c. 1640. Oil on canvas

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Nicholas Poussin, The Ashes of Phokion, 1648. Oil on canvas