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    AHI

    179 Lecture 01
    In the Wake of the Renaissance

    What is the Baroque?

    In recent >mes historians have tended to shrink


    with embarrassment from the term baroque, and
    to opt instead for that of early modern, a term
    which is, of course, double problema>c in promp>ng
    a concep>on of history which is smoothly linear, and
    of the earlier period in subordinate teleological
    rela>on to the modern. - Helen Hills

    TintoreOo, Last Supper, 1592-94 365 x 568 cm, oil on canvas San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.

    that which is not in accord with the rules of propor>ons, but follows caprice.
    - Antoine-Joseph Pernety Dic/onnaire Porta/f de Peinture, Sculpture, et Gravure

    What severity is to the prudence of [good] taste, the baroque is to the bizarre.
    - Quatremre de Quincy, Encyclopdie Mthodique: Architecture

    Borromini, Interior Dome of San Carlo alle QuaOro Fontane, consecrated 1646, Rome, Italy

    Caravaggio, Amor Vincit Omnia (Love


    Conquers All), c. 1601-02. Berlin,
    Gemldegalerie.

    Velazquez, Philip IV, c. 1624-27. oil on canvas. 210 x


    102 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid

    Raphael, Entombment,
    1507
    Galleria, Borghese,
    Rome

    Pontormo, Entombment, 1528. Santa


    Felicit, Florence

    Sandrea Sacchi, Marcantonio Pasqualini


    Crowned by Apollo, 1641

    Caravaggio, Crucixion of St. Peter,


    1600-1601

    Caravaggio, Crucixion of St. Peter, 1600

    Dutch Calvinist Iconoclasm


    Franz Hogenberg, page in De Leone Belgico by Michael Aitsinger. (Cologne, 1588)

    Bernini, Cathedra Petri (Chair of St. Peter),


    gilt bronze
    1647-53. St. Peters Basilica, Rome.

    Veronese, Christ in the House of Levi, 1573, oil on canvas. 18x42 feet. Venice, Gallerie
    dellAccademia

    Raphael, Entombment,
    1507
    Galleria, Borghese,
    Rome

    Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria


    del Popolo

    Caravaggio, Crucixion of St. Peter,


    1600-1601

    Rome, St. Peters Basilica

    Iconoclasm in Zurich in 1524

    Poussin,
    Massacre
    of the
    Innocents
    , 1629

    Velazquez, Los Borrachos, (The Triumph of Bacchus), c. 1629 oil on canvas. Prado, Madrid

    Hals, Merry Party in a Tavern

    Artemisia Gen>leschi, Susanna and the


    Elders, 1610 Pommersfelden,
    Schnborn.

    Artemisia Gen>leschi, Judith


    Slaying Holofernes, c. 1614-20, oil
    on canvas. 66 x 54. Naples,
    Capodimonte

    Gerard Ter Borch, The


    Dancing Couple, 1660 oil on
    canvas, 76 x 68cm.

    Dirck van
    Baburen, The
    Procuress, 1622.
    Oil on canvas, 40
    x 42.5

    De Hooch

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