7/12/16 Art History II

Today's Class- We picked up from where we left off yesterday, continuing our look at Northern Renaissance art, supplementing what the book has with examples I brought from home of Bosch and Bruegel.  Then we moved on to the Baroque period, which spread across all of Europe.  What it all has in common is artists taking the skills in rendering value and texture (such as skin and cloth) developed in the renaissance to new heights, coupled with an emphasis on emotion and drama in narrative art.  Still a lot of religious art, but the combination of economic and church changes leads to the development of other styles and subjects.

Important works- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch), Money Changer and His Wife (Massys), Return of the Hunters (Bruegel), The Harvesters (Bruegel), The French Ambassadors (Holbein), Ceiling of the Gallery, Palazzo Farnese (Carracci), Bacchus (Caravaggio), The Calling of St. Matthew (Caravaggio), The Conversion of St Paul (Caravaggio), Judith Beheading Holofernes (Gentileschi), Martyrdom of St Bartholomew (Ribera), St Serapion (Zurbaran) Water Carrier of Seville (Velasquez)

Important terms- tenebrism, narrative image

Homework- 2nd Current events article should be done for Thursday

Next Class- We continue with the Baroque period across a variety of mediums and nations.