Baroque Artworks (Art UIL)

Baroque

(1600-1750)

• Baroque art is characterized by dramatic movement, intense lighting, and powerful emotions.

• In Catholic countries like Italy and Spain, the Church commissioned paintings to inspire religious devotion through their beauty.

• Whether painting portraits, religious scenes, or landscapes, Baroque artists aimed to capture not just the appearance of their subjects, but also their emotional and spiritual power.

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Baroque painting is noted for showcasing...

• dramatic movement

• everyday life

• powerful emotions

• intense lighting

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What did Baroque artists showcase in the artworks?

• portraits

• religious scenes

• landscapes

Rubens-

Head of a Young Man

• This painting is more like a snapshot, catching someone in the middle of quick movement.

• Everything about the painting suggests motion and emotion.

• The young man's neck muscles strain as he turns his head. His mouth and eyes open wide in surprise. His hair flies back as if caught in the wind.

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• Rubens was both a hugely successful painter and an international diplomat.

• He created over 1,400 paintings.

• To keep up with the huge demand for his work, Rubens set up a large workshop where artists helped him complete his numerous commissions.

• He would often reuse models from one painting to the next. Head of a Young Man is one of Rubens’ earliest oil sketches.

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Head of a Young Man was an

• oil pastel sketch

• oil painting

• oil sketch

• drawing

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The man in Head of a Young Man the artwork looks​

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Rembrandt-
Self-Portrait

• Rembrandt’s self-portrait is not smooth and perfectly blended. His brush strokes are loose and visible.

• He leaves the lower half of the painting unfinished, blurring the hands and body, drawing all attention to his face.

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• Rembrandt was one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

• Throughout his life, Rembrandt would paint himself over forty times.

• By the time he painted this, his success was gone. He had lost his wife, gone broke, and sold his house to pay his debts. Ten years later, he died poor and was buried in an unmarked grave.

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Rembrandt’s self-portrait is smooth and perfectly blended.

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• False

Murillo-

Saint Rufina

• Saint Rufina and her sister Saint Justa are the patron saints of Seville, Murillo’s lifelong home.

• The sisters made pottery for a living, which is why Rufina is holding clay pots in the painting.

• In the late 200s AD, they refused to sell pots for a pagan festival. After pagans broke their pottery, the sisters destroyed a statue of Venus, were arrested, and executed for refusing to renounce their faith. Rufina’s palm branch symbolizes their martyrdom.

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• Murillo spent almost his entire life in Seville, becoming Spain's most celebrated painter.

• While he was famous for religious works like this one, he also painted scenes of everyday life in Seville—children playing, families eating, people selling food in the streets.

Artist

Info: Saint Rufina

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Murillo painted...

• landscapes

• religious scenes

• scenes of everyday life

• animals

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Why is Saint Rufina holding clay pots in the painting?

• to represent her love of clay pots

• to represent her wealth and status

• to showcase that she made pottery for a living

Wilson-

Tivoli: The Temple of the Sybil and the Campagna

• This landscape painting shows us a view of Tivoli, a small Italian town that artists loved to visit in the 1700s because of its natural beauty and ancient Roman ruins.

• In the foreground, seated under a large tree, are two traveling artists, sketching this incredible view. These artists give us a sense of scale.

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• Richard Wilson was the first important English landscape painter.

• He began his career painting portraits.

  In Italy, he discovered his love for painting the countryside.

• Rich British landowners asked him to paint their estates to look grand like ancient Rome.

• He inspired many other British artists to paint landscapes too.

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Wilson started his career painting landscapes.

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• False

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What is the name of the small Italian town painted in Wilson's artwork?

• Tuscany

• Ravioli

• Tivoli

• Rome

Tiepolo-

The Storyteller

• This painting shows a group of local people gathered around a man telling a story.

• The storyteller has a guitar on his back and a baton in his hand to point at a tapestry. The audience around him looks very interested in his story.

• All of this takes place in front of the backdrop of the Gulf of Venice.

• The Storyteller invites us to be curious about everyday life in the past.

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• Young Tiepolo traveled with his father to Germany and Spain to help paint huge wall and ceiling murals in palaces and cathedrals.

• Their murals showed dramatic scenes of angels, saints, and heroes.

• After his father’s death, Tiepolo returned to his hometown of Venice. Venice, with its canals and lively streets, inspired him to paint everyday life instead of heavenly scenes.

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Tiepolo preferred painting everyday life instead of heavenly scenes.

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• False

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