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Gardner’s Art Through the Ages,
Chapter 24
Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs, and
Merchants
Baroque Art
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Figure 24-2 CARLO MADERNO, facade of Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Ital
1606–1612.
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Figure 24-3 CARLO
MADERNO, plan of
Saint Peter’s, Vatican City,
Rome, Italy, with
adjoining piazza designed
by GIANLORENZO
BERNINI.
Figure 24-4 Aerial view of Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1506–1666.
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Figure 24-5 GIANLORENZO
BERNINI, baldacchino, Saint Peter’s,
Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1624–1633.
Gilded bronze, approx. 100’ high.
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Figure 24-7 GIANLORENZO
BERNINI, David, 1623. Marble, approx.
5’ 7” high. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
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Figure 24-8, 24-9 GIANLORENZO
BERNINI, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa,
Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della
Vittoria, Rome, Italy, 1645–1652.
Marble, height of group 11’ 6”.
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Figure 24-10 FRANCESCO
BORROMINI, facade of San Carlo
alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy,
1665–1676.
Figure 24-11 FRANCESCO
BORROMINI, plan of San
Carlo alle Quattro Fontane,
Rome, Italy, 1638–1641.
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Figure 24-19
CARAVAGGIO, Calling of
Saint Matthew, Contarelli
Chapel, San Luigi dei
Francesi, Rome, Italy, ca.
1597–1601. Oil on canvas,
11’ 1” x 11’ 5”.
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Figure 24-21 ARTEMISIA
GENTILESCHI, Judith
Slaying Holofernes, ca. 1614–
1620. Oil on canvas, 6’ 6
1/3” x 5’ 4”. Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence.
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Figure 24-23 ANNIBALE
CARRACCI, Loves of the
Gods, ceiling frescoes in the
gallery, Palazzo Farnese,
Rome, Italy, 1597–1601.
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Figure 24-25 PIETRO DA CORTONA, Triumph of the Barberini, ceiling fresco in
the Gran Salone, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1633–1639.
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Figure 24-26 Giovanni Battista Gaulli,
Triumph in the Name of Jesus,
1676-1679, fresco
Figure 24-31 DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ, Surrender of Breda, 1634–1635. Oil on
canvas, 10’ 1” x 12’ 1/2”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 24-33 DIEGO
VELÁZQUEZ, Las Meninas
(The Maids of Honor), 1656.
Oil on canvas, approx. 10’ 5” x
9’. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 24-34 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Elevation of the Cross, Antwerp Cathedral,
Antwerp, Belgium, 1610. Oil on panel, 15’ 1 7/8” x 11’ 1 1/2” (center panel), 15' 1
7/8" x 4' 11" (each wing).
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PETER PAUL
RUBENS, Henri IV
Receives the
Portrait of Marie
de’ Medici (from
the Medici Cycle –
see figure 24-36 for
reference)
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Figure 24-38 ANTHONY VAN DYCK, Charles I Dismounted, ca. 1635. Oil on
canvas, approx 9’ x 7’. Louvre, Paris.
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Figure 24-41 FRANS HALS, Archers of Saint Hadrian, ca. 1633. Oil on canvas,
approx. 6’ 9” x 11’. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.
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Figure 24-43 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Oil
on canvas, 5’ 3 3/4” x 7’ 1 1/4”. Mauritshuis, The Hague.
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Figure 24-44 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, The Company of Captain Frans Banning
Cocq (Night Watch), 1642. Oil on canvas (cropped from original size), 11’ 11” x 14’
4”. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Figure 24-46 REMBRANDT VAN
RIJN, Self-Portrait, ca. 1659–1660. Oil
on canvas, approx. 3’ 8 3/4” x 3’ 1”. The
Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House,
London.
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REMBRANDT VAN RIJN,
Self-Portrait with Sasksia
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Figure 24-48 JUDITH
LEYSTER, Self-Portrait, ca.
1630. Oil on canvas, 2’ 5 3/8” x
2’ 1 5/8”. National Gallery of
Art, Washington (gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss).
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Figure 24-50 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL, View of Haarlem from the
Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670. Oil on canvas, approx. 1’ 10” x 2’ 1”.
Mauritshuis, The Hague.
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JAN VERMEER,
Woman Holding a
Balance (see figures
24-51 and 24-52 for
reference)
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RACHEL RUYSCH,
Flowers, Fruit and
Insects (see figure
24-56 for reference)
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Figure 24-60 NICOLAS POUSSIN, Et in Arcadia Ego, ca. 1655.
Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 10” x 4’. Louvre, Paris.
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Figure 24-66 HYACINTHE
RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on
canvas, approx. 9’ 2” x 6’ 3”. Louvre,
Paris.
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Figure 24-68 and 24-29 Aerial view of
palace of Versailles and plan of the park,
palace and town, Versailles, France, ca.
1680.
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Figure 24-70 JULES
HARDOUIN-MANSART
and CHARLES LE
BRUN, Galerie des Glaces
(Hall of Mirrors), palace of
Versailles, Versailles,
France, ca. 1680.
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Figure 24-71 JULES
HARDOUIN-MANSART,
Royal Chapel, with ceiling
decorations by Antoine
Coypel, palace of Versailles,
Versailles, France, 1698–1710.
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Figure 24-73 INIGO JONES, Banqueting House at Whitehall, London,
England, 1619–1622.
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Figure 24-74 SIR
CHRISTOPHER WREN, new
Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London,
England, 1675–1710.
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Figure 24-75 JOHN VANBRUGH, Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire, England, 1705-1722.
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Figure 24-76 BALTHASAR
NEUMANN, interior of the
pilgrimage chapel of Vierzehnheiligen,
near Staffelstein, Germany, 1743–
1772.
Figure 24-77 Plan of
Vierzehnheiligen, near Staffelstein,
Germany.
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