Saint Charles at the Four Fountains
- Designed by the architect Francesco Borromini
- Seems elastic
- Effect of movement
- Lots of lights and darks
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
- Designed and completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the leading sculptor of his day
- Depicts St. Theresa’s vision in which an angel pierced her heart with a golden arrow
- Movement and emotion- central aspects of baroque art
DAVID
- life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- example of sculpture in the round- viewer must move around the work to see it completely
- Implied movement (coiled stance)
- Very theatrical
The Conversion of St. Paul
- By Caravaggio
- The moment St. Paul receives his message from god
- Great example of chiaroscuro
- Dramatic movement and emotion
Judith and the Maid Servant with the Head of Holofernes
- By Gentileschi
- Judith beheading the General Holofernes
- She seduces him with wine and good looks and then chops off his head…
- Chiaroscuro – Drama, movement, emotion
The Raising of the Cross
- By Rubens
- A TRYPTYCH
- Flowing movement
- Pyramidal configuration
The Night Watch
- Rembrandt
- Rembrandt painted everyday events, historical subjects and landscapes
- Light, shadow and atmosphere
- Movement and drama- captures a moment in time
The Love Letter
- Genre painting by Vermeer
- A servant maid handing a letter to a young woman with a lute
- Curtain creates the impression this is a private scene
- Painting on wall suggests the letter is form a sailor at sea
- Vermeer used a ‘camera obscura’
Las Meninas
- a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age
- We see what the king and queen would have seen
- Blurred figures imply movement
- Captures a moment in time
You include an image of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes instead of Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes, which I believe you meant to put instead.
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