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Dutch Republic
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642. Fig. 10-22.
Dutch RepublicExample: • Civic group portrait• Challenge to represent
participants• Selection of spontaneous
moment• Light as dramatic device• Subtle modulation of light
and shadow for mood
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night
Watch), 1642. Fig. 10-22.
Dutch Republic
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670. Fig. 10-25.
Dutch RepublicExample: • Landscape popular
theme • Nationalistic pride in
country• Symbols: church towers,
windmills, farmland reclaimed from sea
• Realistic sky and land
JACOB VAN RUISDAEL, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670. Fig.
10-25.
Dutch Republic
JAN VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of Painting,
1670–1675. Fig. 10-26.
Dutch RepublicExample: • Genre scenes of everyday
life popular • Careful rendering of
homes, things• Study of light, reflections• Camera obscura• Allegory of the art of
painting• Symbols of creative act:
model, costume, laurelJAN VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of
Painting, 1670–1675. Fig. 10-26.
Dutch Republic
PIETER CLAESZ, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s. Fig. 10-27.
Dutch RepublicExample: • Still life • Displays wealth and
abundance• Optical renderings of
objects• References to passage of
time, human mortality• Vanitas with memento
mori
PIETER CLAESZ, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s. Fig. 10-27.
FranceDates and Places: • 1600 to 1700• France
People:• Absolute monarch • Court at Versailles• French Royal Academy
CLAUDE LORRAIN, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629.
Fig. 10-30.
FranceThemes:• Portraits • Mythology• Life of Christ, Virgin Mary,
and Saints
Forms:• Classicizing, dynamic, and
realist approaches co-exist
JULES HARDOUIN MANSART and CHARLES LE BRUN, Galerie des Glaces (Hall of
Mirrors), ca. 1680. Fig. 10-33.
France
NICOLAS POUSSIN, Et in Arcadia Ego, ca. 1655. Fig. 10-29.
FranceExample: • Classical approach• Worked in Rome• Studied ancient
sculpture• Seeks rational order,
ideal beauty • Followers of classical
approach called Poussinistes
NICOLAS POUSSIN, Et in Arcadia Ego, ca. 1655. Fig. 10-29.
France
HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701. Fig. 10-31.
FranceExample: • Theatrical approach to
absolute monarch• Propaganda and
surrogate for king• Attributes: robe, scepter,
curtain, crown, fleur de lis
• Royal Academy serves king’s artistic needs HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701. Fig.
10-31.
France
JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART, CHARLES LE BRUN, and ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE, Versailles Palace, begun 1669. Fig. 10-32.
FranceExample: • Louis XIV moves court • Proper setting for absolute
monarch• Axes meet at bedroom• Outfitted by Royal Academy• Symbolic vocabulary of
mythology, Apollo• Controlled nature:
fountains, grounds
JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART, CHARLES LE BRUN, and ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE, Versailles
Palace, begun 1669. Fig. 10-32.