Artwork Trading Cards

Inspired by the flashcards we made last week, each of you will create (2) artwork trading cards. Download and fill in the card template to create your cards.
Requirements:

• Image and identification of artwork (non-blurry or pixelated images)
• Identify the period and location (i.e. Baroque Dutch)
• Symbols, icons or reminders of the key components of the work (i.e. a crown to represent royalty, skull to represent death, etc.)
• Key facts organized under easy-to-read notes (Patron, subject and key facts are included but consider: composition, symbolism, scene, technique, etc.)
• Include what makes this piece BAROQUE 
• Tips:
• Use bullet points to organize and simplify your notes 
•  Be sure text wrapping is tight to maximize your card's space
• Put important phrases or terms in BOLD

Assignments: 

1.    Valeria – Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, p. 675

De la Tour, Adoration of the Shepherds

2.    Clare – Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, p. 682

Palace of Versailles, p. 698

3.    Evelyn – Van Dyck, Charles I Dismounted, p. 678

Hardouin-Mansart, Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, p. 699

4.    Eleanor – Hals, Archers of the Saint Hadrian, p. 681

Rigaud, Louis XIV, p. 696

5.    Somaje – ter Brugghen, Calling of St. Matthew, p. 679

Inigo Jones, Banqueting House, p. 701

6.    Sebastian – Rembrandt, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, p. 683

Wren, St. Paul’s Cathedral, p. 702

7.    Julia – Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, p. 685

Vermeer, The Allegory of the Art of Painting, p. 689 (pic on p. 672)

8.    Dante  - Rembrandt, The Night Watch, p. 684

Honthorst, Supper Party, p. 681

9.    Andy - Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, p. 691

Kalf and Ruysch – still life painting, p. 690-1)

10. Roujia – Rembrandt, Return of the Prodigal Son, 1665

Callot, Hanging Tree, p. 695

11. Lorenzo – Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from the Dunes, p. 687

Perrault, le Vau, Le Brun, The Louvre, p. 697

12. Matt – Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, p. 690

Versailles Park/Gardens, p. 698-9

13. Marquise – Rembrandt, Christ with the Sick around Him, p. 686

Eglise du Dome, Paris p. 700

14. Michael – Vermeer, The Letter, p. 688

Cuyp, Distant View of Dordrecht, p. 687

15. Emily – Steen, Feast of St. Nicholas, p. 689

Hals, Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem, p. 682

16. Morgan – Lorrain, Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, p. 693

Peeters, Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit and Pretzels, p. 678

Things to Look for in Baroque Art:

• Direct, obvious, and dramatic images
• Tries to draw the viewer in to participate in the scene, breaks down barriers
• REALISM - Depictions feel physically and psychologically real. Emotional intensity
• Extravagant settings and ornamentation, ostentatious at times
• Dramatic use of color.
• Dramatic contrasts between light and dark, light and shadow. (TENEBRISM)
• Baroque art has continuous overlapping of figures and elements, contrary to Renaissance art with its clearly defined planes, with each figure placed in isolation from each other.
• Common themes: grandiose visions, ecstasies and conversions (transformation), martyrdom and death, intense light, intense psychological moments.

SAMPLE:

Look at this art history blog for inspiration

Due Wednesday, March 20. Emailed or hard copy.

Baroque

Click through this helpful summary of the Baroque period!

(I didn't make it, but I found it quite informative)

Bernini and Baroque Italy

Baroque - derived from a word meaning imperfect pearl, "irregularly-shaped" or "odd"

"If it's not Baroque, don't fix it!"

• At first, the term Baroque was used derogatorily, to refer to the excess and unclarity relative to High Renaissance ideals.
• Baroque art is vast and varied, but is heavily influenced by the Counter-Reformation, post-Protestant Reformation. 
• Resurgence of the majesty of the Catholic church!
• Protestant Baroque art flourished in Holland, acted as a counter-voice for Catholic art
• Can be separated into two schools of thought: Classicists (inspired by Raphael) and Naturalists (inspired by Titian)
• Baroque architecture reflects the magnificent majesty of Royal European courts

Bernini - Architect, painter, sculptor extraordinaire! 

• Devout Catholic - part of the Church's Counter-Reformative movement 
• INCREDIBLE mastery of marble, able to convey a multitude of textures, weights and emotions seemingly effortlessly - like an artistic alchemist! 
• Captures moments of ACTION and movement 
• Theatrical, dramatic, engages the audience

If you can, watch this entire BBC documentary! It goes in depth into Bernini's life, nature and incredible lifelike sculptures. Gardner's only includes a handful of Bernini's works, not doing him justice. Check out Abduction of Proserpine and Apollo and Daphne! 

This is how Bernini's sculptures make me feel:  

That's all marble? Mind = blown

Bosch and the Northern Renaissance

Key Ideas 

•  Reformation sparked a series of ICONOCLASM! Nonetheless, this was a creative and important period for art.
• Sculptors found ways around Protestant iconoclastic moves, sneakily representing figures without appearing to create false pagan idols
• Heavy influence of the Italian Renaissance while maintaining the Northern European style (remember the nut!)

What caused the Reformation?

• Corruption within the Roman Catholic Church during the Renaissance: sale of indulgences (buying one's way into heaven), sale of church offices, nepotism (familial favoritism), decline of morality among clergy... Luther even referred to the pope as the antichrist and the Catholic Church as the "whore of Babylon"! Harsh.
• Humanism questioned the Church's deeply-rooted traditions, contradicted the emphasis on salvation and instead focused on human value and the earthly realm.
• Resentment of secular rulers over the power of the popes and clergy 

 Please watch this BBC documentary about Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. It's an hour long, but I assure you, it's fun to watch and totally fascinating/disturbing/funny/incredible!

For homework: Imagine you are a Netherlandish citizen living in the 16th century. Write a 1-2 page imaginary journal entry responding to viewing the Garden of Earthly Delights for the first time. Be sure to choose a stance of who you are and how this might impact your viewing (for example, male or female, Catholic vs. Protestant, old vs. young). Remember, this painting would be seen VERY differently in the 16th c. compared to how we see it now (as a surrealist work).

Sample: "Dear diary, I witnessed the strangest thing today after receiving the sacrament at church. As usual, I visited my uncle's house with my mother and baby sister. However this time, he unveiled a new painting by someone named Bosch. Bosch must be a madman, because..." etc. etc. etc.
 (This passage reveals the writer is a young Catholic person)

This is DUE THURSDAY, MARCH 7.

Lastly, check out these helpful resources for 16th century Northern Art

• SmartHistory's Holbein's French Ambassadors
• SmartHistory's Durer's Four Apostles
• SmartHistory's Breugel's The Dutch Proverbs
• Durer on Google Art Project