1. Art History 2: Class 4
Names and terms: Gianlorenzo Bernini, Pietro Bernini, Rome, Pope Paul V, Maffeo
Barberini (Pope Urban VIII), Scipione Borghese, Pluto and Persephone, David, Apollo
and Daphne, “Ecstatic Baroque”/”High Baroque,” Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Giovanni
Lanfranco, Domenichino, St. Peter’s, Baldacchino, “Solomonic columns,” Cathedra
Petri, Piazza St. Peter’s, Scala Regia (Constantine), Fountain of the Four Rivers,
Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Cornaro Chapel, Iconoclasm (Calvinism), Netherlands (Dutch
painting; genre scenes), Metsu, Steen, Maes, still life, emblems, Willem Claesz. Heda,
Dou, Vermeer, Delft, Fabritius, camera obscura
Possible essay question:
--Discuss the career of Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the more “ecstatic” style of art that
proliferated in Rome during his lifetime. What were some of his important contributions
to St. Peter’s?
--Discuss moralizing meanings in Dutch genre painting; give examples of some paintings
and the moralizing messages hidden beneath the veneer of everyday life. Give examples
of moralizing meanings that might be hidden in genre scenes by Vermeer. What is known
about Vermeer’s career?
Images:
Baldacchino/St. Peter’s by Bernini, 1620s-30s, p.393
David by Bernini, 1623, p.396
Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Cornaro Chapel) by Bernini, 1640s-50s, p.398
Still life by Willem Claesz. Heda, 1634, p.421
Feast of St. Nicholas by Jan Steen, 1660s
Woman Holding a Balance by Jan Vermeer, 1660s, p.424