The Baroque period in art (1650-1750) was characterized by emotionalism, theatricality, and elaborate ornamentation. Mannerism (1500s-1600s) used complex compositions and artificial styles. El Greco's works vividly embodied mannerism. Bernini's David (1623) was hailed as the first Baroque sculpture for its dramatic depiction. Bernini also designed St. Peter's Basilica and square in Rome. Caravaggio brought realism to religious works, accentuating ordinary people. Artemisia Gentileschi was one of the few female painters of the time. The Enlightenment promoted reason and science over religion in the 1700s. Figures like Newton and philosophers
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Art and Culture - Module 11 - EnlightenmentRandy Connolly
Eleventh and final module for GNED 1201 (Aesthetic Experience and Ideas). This one ever so briefly covers the aesthetics of the Enlightenment. I only had a single lecture available to me so it only really covers the topic in a very cursory way.
This course is a required general education course for all first-year students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. My version of the course is structured as a kind of Art History and Culture course. Some of the content overlaps with my other Gen Ed course.
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Baroque was born in Italy, and later adopted in France, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain. http://www.artisoo.com/shop-by-style-baroque-c-66_177_184.html
This presentation has been created by a student with special needs with the help of the teachers. It has been presented to the rest of the class that has appreciated the job a lot!
Art and Culture - Module 11 - EnlightenmentRandy Connolly
Eleventh and final module for GNED 1201 (Aesthetic Experience and Ideas). This one ever so briefly covers the aesthetics of the Enlightenment. I only had a single lecture available to me so it only really covers the topic in a very cursory way.
This course is a required general education course for all first-year students at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. My version of the course is structured as a kind of Art History and Culture course. Some of the content overlaps with my other Gen Ed course.
Rembrandt van rijn religious baroque -artisooparkupton
Baroque was born in Italy, and later adopted in France, Germany, Netherlands, and Spain. http://www.artisoo.com/shop-by-style-baroque-c-66_177_184.html
Teaching four art movements: Baroque, chiaroscuro, realism, idealism as the relate to Diego de Velazquez, the court painter to Philip IV of Spain, one of the main characters in the autobiographical novel, I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
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17th Century Art in EuropeCounter-Reformation.docxRAJU852744
17th Century Art in Europe
Counter-Reformation
St. Ignatius of Loyola – Society of Jesus
Counter-Reformation
Art as propaganda
Art as reinvigorator of belief/practice
Spiritual ecstasy
Sculpture: Bernini
St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1645-1652. Marble, 11’ 6”.
What IS Baroque?
STYLE featuring:
Drama/theatricality
Intensity of emotion to draw in viewer
Extreme skill
Naturalism
Using gestures and expressions to tell a story
Dark and light contrasts (chiaroscuro)
Off-balance
Bringing the everyday into religious scenes
Baroque in Europe
France: resurgence of classicism
Monarchy
Counter-Reformation
Netherlands: portraiture, still life, landscape, and genre
St. Peter’s Basilica & Piazza, Vatican, Rome
Pope Paul V Borghese (pontificate 1605-1621)
Longitudinal nave and new facade
Carlo Maderno, Façade of St. Peter’s, 1607-1626
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Baldacchino, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome. 1624-1633. Gilt bronze, 100’.
Cathedra Petri, 1657-1666, gilt bronze, marble, stucco, and glass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSH2H0xZPOw
Bernini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNjZTx_OsQ
David. 1623, Marble, 5’ 7”, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Francesco Borromini, Façade of the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1638-67.
Dome and Plan, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixo_SLkblB4
Caravaggio
Bacchus, 1595-1596. Oil on canvas, 37” x 33.5”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/the-adolescent-bacchus/dAEBrgRq5AvsQA
Caravaggio
Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas, 10’ 7.5” x 11’ 2”.
Tenebrism
Caravaggio
The Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, c. 1601. Oil on canvas, 7’ 6” x 5’ 8”
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/der-ungl%C3%A4ubige-thomas/OAEjjQkNdRL9sg
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1619-20. Oil on canvas, 6’ 63/8” x 5’ 4”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Worked for Bernini, who worshiped at Il Gesu
Illusionistic Baroque ceiling
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Fall of the Damned,
Vault of the church of Il Gesù, Rome, 1672-1685. Fresco with stucco figures
Quadratura
Di sotto in sù
Spain
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c. 1602. Oil on canvas, 27 1/8” x 33 ¼”. San Diego Museum of Art.
Jusepe de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, 1634. Oil on canvas, 1.05 x 1.14 m.
Diego Velázquez, Water Carrier of Seville, c. 1619. Oil on canvas, 41 ½” x 31 ½” . Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Diego Velázquez, The Surrender at Breda (The Lances), 1634-1635. Oil on canvas, 10’7/8” x 12’ ½”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Diego Velázquez.
17th Century Art in EuropeCounter-Reformation.docxaulasnilda
17th Century Art in Europe
Counter-Reformation
St. Ignatius of Loyola – Society of Jesus
Counter-Reformation
Art as propaganda
Art as reinvigorator of belief/practice
Spiritual ecstasy
Sculpture: Bernini
St. Teresa of Avila in Ecstasy, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. 1645-1652. Marble, 11’ 6”.
What IS Baroque?
STYLE featuring:
Drama/theatricality
Intensity of emotion to draw in viewer
Extreme skill
Naturalism
Using gestures and expressions to tell a story
Dark and light contrasts (chiaroscuro)
Off-balance
Bringing the everyday into religious scenes
Baroque in Europe
France: resurgence of classicism
Monarchy
Counter-Reformation
Netherlands: portraiture, still life, landscape, and genre
St. Peter’s Basilica & Piazza, Vatican, Rome
Pope Paul V Borghese (pontificate 1605-1621)
Longitudinal nave and new facade
Carlo Maderno, Façade of St. Peter’s, 1607-1626
Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Baldacchino, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican, Rome. 1624-1633. Gilt bronze, 100’.
Cathedra Petri, 1657-1666, gilt bronze, marble, stucco, and glass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSH2H0xZPOw
Bernini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNjZTx_OsQ
David. 1623, Marble, 5’ 7”, Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Francesco Borromini, Façade of the Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, 1638-67.
Dome and Plan, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixo_SLkblB4
Caravaggio
Bacchus, 1595-1596. Oil on canvas, 37” x 33.5”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/the-adolescent-bacchus/dAEBrgRq5AvsQA
Caravaggio
Caravaggio, The Calling of St. Matthew, Contarelli Chapel, church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. 1599-1600. Oil on canvas, 10’ 7.5” x 11’ 2”.
Tenebrism
Caravaggio
The Conversion of St. Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, c. 1601. Oil on canvas, 7’ 6” x 5’ 8”
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/der-ungl%C3%A4ubige-thomas/OAEjjQkNdRL9sg
Artemisia Gentileschi
Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1619-20. Oil on canvas, 6’ 63/8” x 5’ 4”, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Worked for Bernini, who worshiped at Il Gesu
Illusionistic Baroque ceiling
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, The Triumph of the Name of Jesus and Fall of the Damned,
Vault of the church of Il Gesù, Rome, 1672-1685. Fresco with stucco figures
Quadratura
Di sotto in sù
Spain
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber, c. 1602. Oil on canvas, 27 1/8” x 33 ¼”. San Diego Museum of Art.
Jusepe de Ribera, Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, 1634. Oil on canvas, 1.05 x 1.14 m.
Diego Velázquez, Water Carrier of Seville, c. 1619. Oil on canvas, 41 ½” x 31 ½” . Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Diego Velázquez, The Surrender at Breda (The Lances), 1634-1635. Oil on canvas, 10’7/8” x 12’ ½”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Diego Velázquez ...
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
6. Bernini (1598–1680). Ecstasy of Saint Teresa , Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-1652. Marble, 11' 6" high. Scala/Art Resource, NY.
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8. Saint Peter’s Basilica and Piazza, Vatican, Rome Carlo Maderno, façade, 1607–26; Gianlorenzo Bernini, piazza design, c. 1656–57
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11. Caravaggio Title: Bacchus Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 37 X 33½" (94 X 85.1 cm) Date: 1595–96 Source/ Museum: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
12. Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, Oil on canvas, 10'7½" X 11'2“, 1599–1600 Contarelli Chapel, Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
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14. Artemisia Gentileschi Title: Judith and Holofernes Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 6'½" X 4'7“ Date: 1614-1620 Source/ Museum:
21. Jan Vermeer Title: Woman Holding a Balance Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15 ⅞ X 14" (39 X 35 cm) Date: c. 1664 Source/ Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Widener Collection (1942.9.97)
22. Jan Vermeer (1632-1675), The Milkmaid , c. 1658-1660. Oil on canvas, 17 7/8 in x 16 1/8 in. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Bridgeman Art Library.
23. Johann Vermeer. The Lace Maker , c.1669-1671. Oil on canvas, 9 5/8" x 8 1/4". Louvre, Paris. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY.
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26. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Rembrandt Christ Preaching ("The Hundred-Guilder Print") , ca. 1648-1650. Etching, 11 x 15 1/2 in. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
27. Rembrandt van Rijn Title: Three Crosses (First State) Medium: Drypoint and etching Size: 15 1⁄6 X 17¾“,1653, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
28. Rembrandt van Rijn Title: Three Crosses (Fourth State) Medium: Drypoint and etching Size: 15 1⁄6 X 17¾" (38.5 X 45 cm) Date: 1653,
29. Rembrandt van Rijn Title: Self-Portrait Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 52 ⅝ X 40 ⅞ " (133.6 X 103.8 cm) Date: 1658 Source/ Museum: The Frick Collection, New York
60. A. Denis Diderot - The Encyclopedia - a compilation of all knowledge! (1751-1772)
61. The Encyclopedia “ [Our aim] is to collect all the knowledge scattered over the face of the earth, … and to transmit this to those who will come after us.... It could only belong to a philosophical age to attempt an encyclopedia; … All things must be examined, debated, and investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s feelings…. We have for quite some time needed a reasoning age.” “ It is impious to want to impose laws upon man’s conscience; this is a universal rule of conduct. People must be enlightened and not constrained.” “ War is the fruit of man’s depravity; it is a convulsive and violent sickness of the body politic … If reason governed men and had the influence over the heads of nations that it deserves, we would never see them inconsiderately surrender themselves to the fury of war; they would not show that ferocity that characterizes wild beasts.”
62. The Encyclopedia “ No man has received from nature the right to command others.... The government, although hereditary in a family…, is not private property, but public property that consequently can never be taken from the people, to whom it belongs exclusively…. It is not the state that belongs to the prince, it is the prince who belongs to the state.” “ It is of the greatest importance to conserve this practice [the free press] in all states founded on liberty.” “ The buying of Negroes, to reduce them to slavery, is one business that violates religion, morality, natural laws, and all the rights of human nature.”
69. The Wit and Wisdom of Voltaire “ I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.” “ Almost everything that goes beyond the adoration of a Supreme Being and submission of the heart to his orders is superstition. One of the most dangerous is to believe that certain ceremonies entail the forgiveness of crimes. Do you believe that God will forget a murder you have committed if you bathe in a certain river, sacrifice a black sheep…? … Do better miserable humans, have neither murders nor sacrifices of black sheep.” God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
80. Marie-Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842), Marie Antoinette , 1788. Oil on canvas, 12 ft. 1 1/2 in. x 6 ft. 3 1/2 in. BAL Giraudon/Art Resource, New York.
Protestants began to lure increasing numbers of Christians away from roman Catholicism ,
Parmigianino, (1503-1540) The religious zeal of the Catholic reformers inspired a tremendous surge of artistic activity, especially in Italy and Spain. The spatial clarity, symmetry, and decorum of High Renaissance painting gave way to mannerism. Their paintings mirrored the self-conscious spirituality and the profound insecurities of an age of religious wars and political rivalry.
(The Greek) because of his Greek origins -A master painter who worked in Italy and Spain in the service of the church and the devout Phillip II. He produced visionary canvases marked by bold distortions of form, dissonant colors, and daring handling of space. His flamelike figures, often highlighted by ghostly whites and yellow-grays, seem to radiate halos of light-auras that symbolizes the luminous power of divine revelation.
A child prodigy, a favorite of the pope Deemed the “Michelangelo” of his generation (many ducked when seeing the statue for the first time)
The altarpiece illustrates an episode drawn from the autobiography of the Spanish Carmelite nun and mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-1562)the moment in which she is united with God. With dazzling artistry, Bernini brings to life her divine seduction. He depicts the saint with her head back sunk back and eyes half closed, swooning with ecstatic surrender on a marble cloud that floats in heavenly space. A smiling angel gently lifts Teresa’s bodice to insert or remove the flaming arrow of divine love.
Four bronze spiral columns recall Temple of Solomon, are 95’ high – bronze stripped from the Pantheon
Used naturalism but instead did not idealize the narratives. Strong personality, thrived in Roman underground scene. Liked to party and was in trouble with the law for murder.
Born in Rome. Artemisia was trained by her father but soon outstripped him in technical proficiency and imagination. When she was 18 she was Raped by her art instructor. She was also tortured to try to get her to say it didn’t happen. The violence she brought to these depictions may be said to reflect her profound sense of victimization.
Illustrates the decapitation of an Assyrian general and enemy of Israel at the hands of a clever Hebrew widow. She brought to this representation the dramatic techniques of Caravaggio, she brings the viewer close to the event, -the foreshortened body of the victim and foreground pattern of human limbs force the eye to focus on the gruesome action of the swordblade as it severs head from neck in a shower of blood.
Trompe l veil vision of saint Ignatius apotheosis – his elevation to divine status. A master of the techniques of linear perspective and dramatic foreshortening, the Jesuit architect and sculptor Pozzo made the walls appear to open up, so that the viewer gazes through the roof into the heavens that receive the levitation body of the saint.
The Rise of the English Commonwealth Following the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, England experienced a period of political and social turbulence that culminated in the emergence of true constitutional monarchy. Drawing on a number of 16 th century English translations of Scripture, a committee of 54 scholars recruited by James I of England (1566-1625) produced an “authorized” English-language edition of the Old and New Testaments.
In 1666, a devastating fire tore through London and destroyed three-quarters of the city. there was an upsurge of large-scale building activity and a general effort to modernize London.
Drawing on the tradition of exacting realism initiated by Jan van Eyck.
Not much is known about his life, but he is considered one of the Dutch masters. Believed to have used the camera obscura , an instrument that created an image through a hole set inside a dark box
also was a master of etching and used drypoint technique later. Based in Amsterdam (1606-1669), the financial center of Europe
She largely gave up painting after her marriage, which produced five children.
When Louis XIV took over in France in 1661, everything changed He reigned for 54 years, established France as the leading superpower From 1661-1789 French art took prominence All life “revolved” around him, he envisioned himself as Apollo.
Almost half the size of Paris, the new complex at Versailles was connected to the old capital by a grand boulevard that ran from the King’s bedroom to the center of state business in Paris.
A neoclassicists he shared Raphael’s esteem for lofty subjects drawn from Greco-Roman mythology and Christian legend.
Excelled at modeling forms so that they conveyed the powerful presence of real objects in atmospheric space
In this painting he depicted himself at the easel, alongside the members of the royal court . Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), Oil on canvas, 10'5" X 9'½“, 1656, Museo del Prado, Madrid. In this painting, Velazquez depicted himself at his easel, alongside the members of the royal court : the infant ( the five year old daughter of the King) , her maids of honor, her dwarf, a mastiff hound, and the royal escorts. In the background is a mirror that reflects the images of the king and queen of Spain –
trained in Antwerp and studied in Rome, Became synonymous with Flemish Baroque, Unified the styles of northern and southern Europe, Upon his return to Antwerp, built a house with a large studio that allowed his workshop to crank out works
Painterly in technique and dynamic in composition. Depicts the abduction of two mortal women by the Roman heroes Castor and Pollux. He portrayal of the classical story explodes with vigor and imagination: Pressing against the picture plane are the fleshy bodies of the nude maidens their limbs arranged in the pattern of a slowly revolving pinwheel . Probably commissioned to commemorate the double marriage of Louis XIII of France to a Spanish princess and Philip Iv of spain to a French princess. to celebrate the diplomatic alliance of France and Spain, the panting carries a subtext of (male) power over (female) privilege.
and one of the most influential composers of his time
Monteverdi - Served the court of Mantua until he became Chapel master of Saint Mark’s in Venice in 1621, a post he held for the rest of his life. Bach – he composed music for the Sunday servives and for holy days.
18 th Century – revolutions erupted in France and America – ( French, American and Industrial Revolution in England all happened at the same time) Social and economic life dissolved. The Enlightment was a new way to think critically about the world. To think independent of religion, myth and tradition. Questioning theories, God, and now experimenting with science. Voltaire and his writings were very important
His inquiries into motion and gravity resulted in his formulation of the law of falling bodies, which proclaims that the earth’s gravity attracts all objects- regardless of shape, size or density- at the same rate of acceleration. Perfected a telescope that literally revealed new celestial objects. His efforts aroused opposition form the church, but it was not until his publication of an inflammatory tract that poked fun at outmoded theories of astronomy that he brought to Rome on charges of heresy. In 1633 he was forced to admit his “errors” condemned to reside under “house arrest” in a villa near Florence.
“ I have seen further,” “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Astronomer and mathematician represents a practical synthesis of 17 th century physics and mathematics and the union of the inductive and deductive methods. His monumental treatise, Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles) linked terrestrial and celestial physic under a single set of laws: the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation(by which every particle of matter attracts every other particle of matter).
Members of the nobility and the middle class, they came together in gatherings organized by socially ambitious noblewomen, many of whom championed a freer and more public role for their gender. In the elegant salons of Paris, these thinkers and writers met to exchange views on morality, politics, science, and religion and to voice opinions on everything ranging from diet to the latest fashions in theater and dress .
men of letters who wrote for public consumption, using humor, wit, satire
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Attacked the persistence of the female stereotype (docile, domestic, and childlike) as formulated by misguided and tyrannical males.
The American and French revolutions drew inspiration from the Enlightenment faith in the reforming power of reason.
A compelling literary genre based more in fact than in fiction made its appearance in the 18 th century: Slave Narratives constitute a body of prose literature written by Africans who suffered the cruelties of the transatlantic slave trade.
Decorative finale of the baroque era, flourished (ironically) during the Enlightenment. The room is airy and fragile; brilliant white walls, accented with pastel tones of rose, blue, and lime are ornamented with gilded tendrils , playful cupid, and floral garlands.
The group of fashionable men and women at a dete galante (elegant entertainment ) on the island of Cythera, the legendary birth place of Venus.
Many Flowers and figures dominate the setting Colors are not thick or richly painted made for private display
Belonged to a tradition that stretched from the Renaissance through the age of Louis XIV
Rose to fame with his polished depictions of classical history and mythology and with his accomplished portraits of middle and upper-class patrons.
Protestants began to lure increasing numbers of Christians away from roman Catholicism , The Catholic Reformation - The church undertook a program of internal reform and reorganization known as the catholic Reformation. By the 1540s, in an effort to win back Christians, the church launched the evangelical campaign known as the Counter-Reformation.
John Donne (1571-1631) A poet who was one of the most eloquent voices of religious devotionalism in the Protestant North