Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture

483 Pages·2012·113.4 MB·English

by  Robert Neuman

Baroque and Rococo
Art and Architecture

Baroque and Rococo
Art and Architecture
Robert Neuman
Professor of Art History, Florida State University
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Cover photo: Claude Lorrain,Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba, 1648. Oil on canvas,
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page 2: Pietro Longhi,Masked Figures with a Fruit Seller, ca. 1760. Oil on canvas, 243⁄8×201⁄8ʺ (62×51 cm).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neuman, Robert (Robert Michael)
Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture / Robert Neuman, Professor of
Art History, Florida State University. -- 1st edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-205-83226-2
ISBN-10: 0-205-83226-1
1. Art, Baroque--Textbooks. 2. Art, Rococo--Textbooks. 3.
Architecture, Baroque--Textbooks. 4. Architecture, Rococo--Textbooks.
I. Title.
N6415.B3N48 2012
709.03’2--dc23
2012020308
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN 10: 0-205-83226-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-205-83226-2
Contents
Preface
10 Public Religious Commissions 59
Boxes
Introduction
13 A Pantheon of Saints 35
Altars and Altarpieces 36
Society 16 Singing the Madonna’s Praises 46
Monarchical Government 16
Religion 16
Science 16 CHAPTER TWO
Sources of Baroque and Rococo Art 17 The Sacred and Secular in Painting
in Seventeenth-Century Italy
65
Italian Followers of Caravaggio 65
Baroque
Orazio Gentileschi 65
28 Artemisia Gentileschi 67
Bartolomeo Manfredi 69
The Bolognese School 70
Guido Reni 71
CHAPTER ONE Domenichino 72
Giovanni Lanfranco 75
The Birth of Baroque Painting in Italy
31 Guercino 75
Elisabetta Sirani 78
Rome 31 Bernardo Strozzi and Salvator Rosa 78
Bologna 33 Pietro da Cortona 80
Art for the Counter-Reformation Church 34 Andrea Sacchi 82
Patronage: The Pope and His Cardinals 38 Giovanni Battista Gaulli 85
Patronage: Religious Orders and Confraternities 38 Luca Giordano 86
Federico Barocci 40 Andrea Pozzo 86
The Carracci 44
Ludovico Carracci 45 Boxes
Annibale Carracci 46 The Battle for Artemisia 67
Agostino Carracci 53 From Sinner to Saint: Mary Magdalen 76
Caravaggio 54 Soldiers for Christ: The Society of Jesus 85
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CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FIVE
Italian Baroque Sculpture and The Golden Age of Spain and
the Bel Composto Viceregal America
91 147
Patronage: Urban VIII Barberini 94 The Visual Arts 148
Stefano Maderno 95 An Artist’s Life 149
Pietro Bernini 96 Juan Sánchez Cotán 150
Francesco Mochi 97 Francisco Ribalta 151
Gianlorenzo Bernini 99 Jusepe de Ribera 152
St. Peter’s, Rome 102 Francisco de Zurbarán 155
Private Commissions 105 Polychrome Sculpture 157
Later Commissions 108 Diego Velázquez 160
François Duquesnoy 111 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 167
Alessandro Algardi 112 Juan de Valdés Leal 169
Iberian Architecture 170
Boxes Latin American Architecture 176
Process in Sculpture: Marble 93 Latin American Painting 178
Process in Sculpture: Bronze 94
Patronage: The Case of the Borghese 101 Boxes
St. Teresa and Mystical Experience 107 The Immaculate Conception 148
El Greco in Toledo 150
Backdrop to the Mass: The Spanish Retable 159
CHAPTER FOUR
Baroque Architecture in Italy
115
CHAPTER SIX
The Human Figure in Dutch
Roman Urbanism under Sixtus V 117
Roman Urbanism under Alexander VII 119 Seventeenth-Century Painting
183
The Church 124
Il Gesù, Rome 125
The Utrecht Followers of Caravaggio 185
Francesco Borromini 129
Gerrit van Honthorst 186
Gianlorenzo Bernini 133
Dirck van Baburen 189
Baldassare Longhena 135
Hendrick ter Brugghen 190
Guarino Guarini 138
Frans Hals 191
Domestic Architecture 139
Judith Leyster 195
The Palazzo Barberini, Rome 140
Rembrandt 196
The Palazzo Interior 142
Mature Works 203
The Country House 143
Late Works 205
The Villa Belvedere, Frascati 144
Boxes
Box
“To Err is Human . . .”: The Parable of the
The Language of Classical Architecture 116
Prodigal Son 185
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When Is a Rembrandt Not a Rembrandt? 197 CHAPTER NINE
Rembrandt and Netherlandish Print Culture 199 French Painting and Prints of
the Seventeenth Century
261
CHAPTER SEVEN
Picturing Holland in the Dutch Republic’s Jacques Bellange 262
Jacques Callot 263
Golden Age
209 Valentin de Boulogne 264
Georges de La Tour 265
Pioneers of Dutch Genre 211 Simon Vouet 268
Manners and Morals at Mid Century 213 The Le Nain Brothers 270
Johannes Vermeer 218 Philippe de Champaigne 272
Mirror of Nature: Landscape 222 Louise Moillon 273
Visions of the Sea 225 Nicolas Poussin 273
Public and Private Spaces: Architectural Painting 225 Claude Lorrain 279
Depicting Prosperity: Still Life 229 Charles Le Brun and the French Academy 281
The Decline of the Golden Age 231
Boxes
Boxes The Secret Life of an Art Historian 277
Strategies for Interpreting Dutch Art 210 Tapestry as Medium 282
Studying Perception: The Use of Optical Devices 214
The Creation of a Baroque Painting 230
CHAPTER TEN
Baroque Architecture in France
CHAPTER EIGHT
and England
Flemish Baroque Painting in 285
the Age of Rubens
233 France 285
The Place Royale 287
Peter Paul Rubens 235 The Hôtel 288
Aristocratic Patrons 243 The Château 289
The Garden of Love 247 Luxembourg Palace 289
Anthony van Dyck 248 Château de Maisons 290
Jacob Jordaens 254 Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 293
Still Life: Clara Peeters and Frans Snyders 255 The Palace 295
Genre Scenes: Adriaen Brouwer and David Teniers The Louvre 295
the Younger 257 Versailles 297
The Church 301
Boxes England and Inigo Jones 302
Drawing from the Past 236 Christopher Wren 305
Reproductive Prints 241
Collecting in the Baroque 256 Boxes
The Radiance of the Sun King 286
Architectural Models 306
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Rococo
308 CHAPTER THIRTEEN
French Sculpture and Architecture in
the Eighteenth Century
355
CHAPTER ELEVEN
French Painting from the Regency Antoine Coysevox 356
Guillaume Coustou I 357
to the Reign of Louis XV
311 Etienne-Maurice Falconet 358
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 359
Rubenism vs. Poussinism 312 Architecture Perfected 360
Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillierre 315 The Château 362
Antoine Watteau 319 The Garden Palace 364
The Fête Galante 322 The Hôtel 366
Followers of Watteau 326 New Projects for Versailles 366
François Boucher 327 The Rococo Interior 369
The Place Royale 371
Boxes The English Landscape Garden in France 373
The Pastoral Dream 317
Making Up Society: The Toilette 318 Boxes
The Commedia dell’Arte 320 Architectural Drawings 361
Design for Living: A French Commode 370
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Public and the Private in French CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Georgian Panorama in
Painting of the Enlightenment
333
British Painting and Prints
375
Face-Painting at Mid Century 335
Jean-Siméon Chardin 338 William Hogarth 379
Jean-Baptiste Greuze 343 Comic Histories 381
Jean-Honoré Fragonard 346 Thomas Gainsborough 385
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun 352 Richard Wilson 391
Joseph Wright of Derby 392
Boxes Sir Joshua Reynolds 393
The Salon: Art as Public Spectacle 334 Constructing Social Identities: George Romney 397
Enlightenment Ideals and the New Woman 340 George Stubbs 399
Women Artists in the Ancien Régime 352
Boxes
The Comforts of Bath 377
Academic Theory and Reynolds’s Discourses 394
Special Effects: An Inquiry on the Sublime 400
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN Rosalba Carriera 445
Architecture and Gardens in Pietro Longhi 446
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 447
Eighteenth-Century Britain
403 Giambattista Tiepolo 448
Ceiling Paintings 449
Churches 404
The Baroque Country House 408 Boxes
The Palladian Revival 410 The First History of Architecture 422
The Gothic Revival 412 The Arts of Stucco and Scagliola 427
City Planning 414 The Delights of the Grand Tour 432
The English Landscape Garden 418
Epilogue
Boxes 455
Conserving the Architectural Past 406
Chippendale’s Chairs 417 Glossary 456
Further Reading 459
Picture Credits 469
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Index 470
Eighteenth-Century Austria, Germany,
and Italy
421
Architecture in Austria 421
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 422
Jakob Prandtauer 423
Architecture in Germany 424
Balthasar Neumann 424
François de Cuvilliés 426
Augustus the Strong 427
German Churches: Neumann and the Zimmermann
Brothers 429
The Arts in Rome 432
Benedetto Luti 434
Corrado Giaquinto 434
Mariano Rossi 436
Giovanni Paolo Panini and Giovanni Battista Piranesi 437
Architecture in Rome 440
Architecture in Turin 442
Painting in Venice 443
Canaletto 443
Francesco Guardi 444
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